Base Collection (page 44)

Spring Snowdrops grow up around the base of an old tree. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Catapult C15
A rather lethal looking catapult with a huge sling on a wooden base

Italians Bomb Aeroplanes
The Italians bomb Ethiopian air-base

Wwi / British Staff Car
Four British soldiers in a staff car at an army base

French Warplanes at Base
French SPAD fighters on the ground at an airfield; these are probably the finest aircraft of the war, flown successfully by such pilots as Guynemer

German Raiders Intercept
Training flights at a French air base

Stukas Bomb Malta
German JU-87 Stuka dive- bombers attack the island of Malta, a vital Allied base which the Axis powers were never able to take despite prolonged attacks

Taking Singapore
The naval base of Singapore is surrendered by the Allies to the Japanese and seen as a far-reaching military defeat for the allies

Building Trestle Viaduct
Building a trestle bridge : once the woodwork has been completed, soil and rock are washed down onto the lower levels, giving it a solid base

Plane with Telegraph
A German reconnaissance plane equipped with radio so that information can be rapidly passed back to base

Raiding a German Base
Sauve qui peut ! A French warplane raids a German base

PARIS TYPE FIRE-ENGINE
Paris type manual fire- engine, with the pumps contained in the water cistern, with everything mounted on an oak base plate

Banana Tree / 18th Century
A fine engraving of a banana plant, showing 1)The full tree 2)A ripe bunch of the fruit 3)One figg to the full proportion 4)Young shoots growing from the base

Dubrovnik in 1918
Dubrovnik - then known as Ragusa - was a naval base for the Austro-Hungarian Imperial fleet during World War One

Sawing a Tree
A pair of fellers saw into the base of a tree. The law states they must cut not more than 6 inches from the ground so as to get as much timber as possible from each tree

Alchemy / Van Helmont
Alchemist Van Helmont (1577- 1644) is visited by a stranger who generously presents him with the Philosophers Stone which turns base metals into gold

Evanston Observatory
Observatory at the Northwestern University, Evanston, Idaho, USA, showing its dome with ivy around the base

Williamson / Leopard Shoot
SHOOTING A LEOPARD A leopard tries to escape by climbing a tree. While dogs leap up barking at the base, the leopard is shot by a man on an elephant

Crusades / Edessa
FIRST CRUSADE Crusaders under Baudouin de Boulogne take Edessa, in Turkey, which provides the Crusaders with a base

Valier rocket taking off from the moon
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes using a lunar base for rockets travelling to distant planets. (3 of 3)

Valier rocket lunar base
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes a lunar base using solar power, from which travel to more distant destinations will be easier than from Earth. (2 of 3)

Paranormal / Alchemy
Dunikowski, a Polish engineer, demonstrates his process for changing base metals to gold in the laboratories of the Ecole Centrale, Paris

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