Battery Collection (page 9)

Crimea Artillery
A quiet day in the Diamond Battery : the gun is a Lancaster 68-pounder

Crimea Mortar Battery
British mortar battery on the heights before Sebastopol, during the Crimea War

Expedition to Kertsch
EXPEDITION TO KERTSCH The Allied troops disembark, and the Saint Paul Battery is blown up

Quarantine Cemetery
The Quarantine Cemetery and French Battery no 50; this was the site of a battle on 22-23 May 1855

Armoured Train
Iron-car battery on the Philadelphia Railway

Naval Battery / Manassas
A Confererate naval battery at Manassas Junction, Virginia

Bombarding Sebastopol
A mortar battery bombards the besieged city

Leclanche Electric Cell
LECLANCHE CELL An early version of the battery invented by Georges Leclanche, made up of zinc in an ammonium chloride solution

Prussian Siege Battery before Paris; Franco-Prussian War, 18
Illustration showing a Prussian siege battery bombarding Paris, with the Prussian ranks of cannon into the distance. Fighting went on in Paris for four months before the French capitulated in March

American Civil War: Howletts Battery
Howleltts Battery on the James River, engaging Federal monitors

American Civil War: Colonel Fitch and the 46th Indiana volun
Unionist soldiers storm the battery at Fort St Charles, Arkansas

Union Recruitment in New York; American Civil War, 1864
Engraving showing the recruitment of German and Irish emigrants into the Unionist Army, on the Battery at New York, during the American Civil War

American Civil war. Embarkation at Woolwich
Embarkation at Woolwich of the E Battery fourth brigade of the Royal Field Artillery on board the Melbourne for Canada. British troops en route for Canada to protect the Canadian border

Mortar Battery Cartoon
Officer - So you wish to transfer to a Trench Mortar Battery? What are your qualifications? Private - In Civilian life I was a Bricklayers Labourer

Gladstone wearing an electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1886 for the Medical Battery Companys Electropathic Belt, featuring a caricature of William Gladstone, Prime Minister wielding an axe and wearing the belt

Boys & Toy Plane
Two young boys, brothers, wearing stripy pyjamas, perhaps on Christmas morning, excitedly put batteries into their new model (Boeing 727) aeroplane

Plante Accumulator
The accumulator (a secondary or storage battery) invented by French physicist Gaston Plante

Bunsens Battery
BUNSENs CELL A carbon-zinc electric cell invented by Robert Bunsen in 1841

Ladies by a Fireside
Two young ladies sit in front of an open fire : should they require them, a whole battery of tools are available to poke the coals, shovel the ash or brush the hearth

PIG FARM
The hog farmers dog watches while his master feeds the pigs in what looks suspiciously like a battery pig-stye

Venice Battery 2
Interior of the Austrian floating battery at Venice

Venice Battery
Austrian floating battery at Venice

Collecting Eggs 2 / 2
Collecting eggs from battery hens at Norwich School of Agriculture

Collecting Eggs
Collecting eggs from battery hens

French in Netherlands
Invading the Low Countries, the French bombard WILLEMSTAD from their artillery battery on Hel-plaats : a fine view of cannon and a mortar in action

French Field Guns - 5
A battery of French 155 cannons, using 9 kilos of powder to fire a projectile of 40 kilos

Mortar Battery, Crimea
During the siege of Sebastopol, a mortar battery bombards the besieged city Date: 1855

Richard Jordan Gatling
RICHARD JORDAN GATLING American inventor of agricultural implements and (more famously) the revolving battery gun

Ww1 / German Artillery
A German artillery battery on the Western Front

Indian Gunner / 1911
A Gunner of the Mountain Battery, holding his rifle. Mountains and two cannons are in the background

Quebec / Laval Uni / Battery
Quebec: Laval University and Grand Battery

Lighting / Electric Torch
ELECTRIC TORCH Advertisement by the Portable Electric Light Co. for a dry battery electric torch

Alessandro Volta Card
count ALESSANDRO VOLTA Italian scientist, depicted holding his battery

Volta and his Pile
VOLTAs PILE (battery) He demonstrates it to the Institut Francais and the consul Napoleon Bonaparte

Electric Dog-Cart 1888
Electric dog-cart : battery- powered. For a while, car designers will look to electricity for their motive power, but sadly, combustion will triumph

Electricity Volta
Alessandro Volta demonstrates to Napoleon I his voltaic pile - a battery capable of storing the force created by an electric motor

Saint Helena 2
View of Jamestown harbour from the hill behind the Battery : this French engraving names the defences - perhaps with a view to rescuing the captive Emperor ?

Castle & White Cliffs
Dover Castle & environs with a key marking out various new roads, two churches, signal house & Guildford Battery which is linked to the castle by a passage through the rock

Mississippi Operation
Lightning flashes as Union forces land on Island number 10, where the Confederates have a battery which threatens river traffic

Battle of Somo-Sierra
PENINSULA CAMPAIGN Battle of SOMO-SIERRA Napoleon directs a cavalry charge against a Spanish battery protecting the road to Madrid

Sveaborg Bombardment
The bombardment of Sveaborg (Sweaborg) -- the French battery

Battery constructed at the Royal Institution, London
A large battery constructed at the Royal Institution, London, by Wollaston, for Davy

Construction of a voltaic battery in Paris
Construction of a large voltaic battery at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, covering 54 square metres, on the orders of Napoleon

Croziers automatic battery

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