Beam Collection (page 5)

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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