Beam Collection (page 4)

British night bombers by G. H. Davis
British night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War

Boy With Puzzle
A young curly harried boy holding an early 16th century puzzle and smiling with obvious glee. Date: circa 1515

Searchlights near Nancy, France, WW1
Searchlights on the lookout for German Zeppelin airships near Nancy, France, at the start of the First World War. August 1914

WW2 - Keep em Flying - Off the Beam - It looks as if our plucky pilot was a bit out of line and is now facing the consequences!! Date: 1942

Air Fleet Club - Germany - Zeppelin Ride - quite what the residents of the town being illuminated from above by the searchlights thought of this is not known.... Possiby LZ-2 Date: circa 1906

Templo del Pilar, Calanda, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
Illuminations light up the 17th century Templo del Pilar, Calanda (a town in the province of Teruel, in Aragon, Spain). Date: 1908

The Charm of a London Night Fog - amazing lighting effects as the beam of a street light diffuses through the shape of a roadside tree. Date: 1919

London by Night - Searchlights crossing the night sky over the capital. Date: circa 1940s

Absecon Lighthouse at Sunset - Atlantic City, USA
Absecon Lighthouse at Sunset - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA Date: circa 1903

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Gallimimus, Tyrannosaurus & Diplodocus
Gallimimus (top left). This was a 6 metre long omnivore which lived 74 mya. Tyrannosaurus (top right), the famous carnivore lived 67 mya, and Diplodocus (bottom)

Diplodocus, Euoplocephalus & Hypsilophodon
Euoplocephalus (top left). This was an armoured herbivore living 76 mya. Hypsilophodon (tor right) was an earlier, bipedal herbivore which lived 125 mya

Diplodocus presented to the museum, 1905
The cast of Diplodocus carnegii was presented by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The original skeleton, excavated in Wyoming, is in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Diplodocus carnegiei skull
The skull belonging to the replica skeleton of Diplodocus carnegiei on display at the Natural History Museum, London. The slender teeth would have raked leaves from branches

Diplodocus foot
Detail of the replica diplodocus skeleton on display at the Natural History Museum. The three inner toes of the back foot had sharp claws which may have acted as an anti-slip device

Presentation of Diplodocus, May 1905
The cast of Diplodocus carnegii was presented by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The original skeleton, excavated in Wyoming, is in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Detail of a polychrome beam with scene of a knight who fights against a shaggy man. 15th c. Mudejar art. Painting. SPAIN. Madrid. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: SPAIN. VALLADOLID

Beam from the Palace of the Marquis of Llio. Main beam painted with heraldic, fauna and filigree motifs. Fresco. Proc: SPAIN

Firefighter using a thermal imaging camera in a burnt-out building - London Fire Brigade

Cover design, Deruluft timetable
Cover design, Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft, LVG), serving Berlin and Moscow. circa 1934

Book cover design, Aerial Warfare by RP Hearne, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908, with an introduction by Sir Hirams Maxim. 1908

Steam-Boat Knickerbocker. 320 feet long, 32 ft. 6 inches Beam, 10 ft. 6 incs. Hold, 64 ft. wide including guards, and is propelled by a beam Engine

Ratcliff Sea Scouts lining a mast. circa 1913

BEAM PUMP
The old Beam Pump at Wanlockhead, Dumfries-shire, Scotland. Date: 19th century

Chinese Carpenter building a house
A Chinese Carpenter building a house using traditional techniques. Date: circa 1910s

Cruck-Beam Gable
A derelict cruck-beam house (being demolished), at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. This was one of the very earliest forms of building construction. Date: 19th century

Ultrasonic Probes
The Analytical Research Unit, Harwell : Measuring the beam characteristics of Ultrasonic probes. Date: March 1968

German battleship sinking at night, WW1
An artists impression of a German battleship sinking at night, with searchlights flashing in all directions, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Aircraft preparing to depart for night bombardment, WW1
A British aircraft preparing to depart for a night bombardment during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

BEAM TRANSMISSION (George H Scheer, junior) Earthmen encounter bizarre (by our standards) aliens, on an unknown world Date: 1934

Sending Message to Mars
Communicating with Mars - sending a message with a massive beam of light. Date: 1907

Model beam engine, nineteenth century

Red Cross workers on World War One battlefield
A hand painted lantern slide depicting Red Cross workers on a World War One battlefield at night, looking for survivors after a battle

Building the framework for a domed roof
A welder seam welds aluminium plate whilst sitting on the edge of a centre section of a domed roof, built to cover a liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the guise of his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes

Crystal Palce / Brick Beam
3 diagrams showing the tests undertaken to establish which material, Roman or Portland cement, would provide the stronger hollow bricks for use in the exhibition beams

Burglar alarm designs
Burglar detection by invisible beams. Once the beam is broken a alarm bell rings and a lamp lights up. The invisible rays ran across windows or doors to prevent entry

An Elizabethan Hall
Grand ladies and gentlemen converse inside an Elizabethan hall with a magnificent hammer-beam roof

On board a Passenger Liner leaving Britain, 1886
Engraving of passengers on the deck of a ship, entitled Departure of Colonial Visitors: The last Glimpse of Old England. On the left, the family of travellers

Bridge Building America
Construction on an unnamed bridge, probably in New York. Workmen putting a cross beam into place

Laser Anemometer 1968
This experiment measures how much light from a laser beam can pass through the water in the glass tube when the water moves at different speeds

Punishment / N. Africa
In North Africa, Barbary arabs strip prisoners and suspend them from a beam by one hand and one foot

The Mote and the Beam
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ?

Gas Laser Light Beam
The first commercially available long life gas laser, capable of producing a continuously intense beam of ultra-violet light

Police Make Arrest / 1873
Two Metropolitan policemen carrying torches arrest a man who is cowering in a doorway. The torches were known as nab lights

Futuristic helicopter sentinel
A futuristic scene showing a helicopter pilot with a telescope, acting as a sentinel of the skies. A beam of light shines on him from a distant tower

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