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British submarine training by G. H. DavisOfficers and men of the British submarine service being trained in use of the Davis submarine escape apparatus: A water-filled tank with a dummy submarine compartment and the new canvas air lock
Cooking food for army in the field WWIVarious types of ovens and kitchens, from brick and clay ovens, parallel kitchen, broad arrow kitchen, aldershot ovens and internally heated oven burrowed into the side of a bank. Date: 1915
Ships during winter months by G. H. DavisNaval notes of the week (lightships and buoys). Above: revictualling a lightship during the winter months. Below: hold tight for your life -- attending to the Mariners Fingerposts in winter
The bell ringers of St Pauls Cathedral, 1903The interior of the ringing chamber at St Pauls Cathedral, London. The twelve bells of the north tower can be seen here, about to be rung by an all male band of ringers. Date: 1903
Elysee Palace - detail of salon d HemicycleThe debating chamber at the Elysee Palace, Paris. Date: 1913
Jerusalem ChamberThe Jerusalem Chamber in the Chapter House. Date: circa 1803
The Painted ChamberInterior of the Painted Chamber, before the tapestry was removed. Date: circa 1800
Vintners Hall LondonThe Vintner Sherriff receives the congratulations of the Company in the Grand Chamber. Date: 1841
PRINCES CHAMBER 1807North east View of the Princes Chamber, showing its connexion with the adjoining buldings, viewed from an upper window of Mr Henry Whites house in Parliament Place. Date: 1807
House of Lords 1807North east View of the old House of Lords, the Princes Chamber with the Bishops Robing-Room, viewed from the ruins of Mr Blackerbys house on 12 October 1807. Date: 1807
Guildhall Council ChThe Council Chamber Date: 1895
Vizier Mereukas TombInside the tomb of the VIZIER MEREUKA who steps out to receive the offerings Sakkara - Cairo - Egypt. Date: BC
John Wilson, MusicianJOHN WILSON musician to Charles I and chamber musician to Charles II Date: 1595 - 1674
Edward ProgersEDWARD PROGERS Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles II : his memoir, I emptied the Merry Monarchs Chamber-Pot remains, alas, unpublished. Date: 1621 - 1717
John Knowles PaineJOHN KNOWLES PAINE American music teacher and composer, whose symphonies, oratorios, cantatas, songs, chamber music and organ pieces are seldom if ever performed. Date: 1839 - 1906
Mouton, Lute-PlayerMOUTON French lute-player performing chamber music at the court of Louis XIV. Date: CIRCA 1690
Vietnam - Hanoi - Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture during the period of French Occupation (note architectural style). Date: circa 1910s
Hue, Vietnam - Bellringer outside Palace Audience ChamberHue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam - The bellringer outside one of the Audience Chambers of the Royal Palace and possibly his (very) young apprentice! Date: circa 1910s
Comic Postcard - Slops removed and servedComic Postcard - A Housemaid removes and empties the slops from a bedroom chamber pot (potty), whilst at the same time a (hopefully different type of)
Submarine training at HMS Vernon - Escape ChamberSubmarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Waiting on the surface after a successful escape. Date: late 1930s
Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Operating the flooding gear in the escape chamber of a Submarine. Date: late 1930s
Chamber of Commerce, Saint Pierre, MartiniqueA very early (photographic) view of the Chamber of Commerce, Place Bertin, Saint Pierre, Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Date: circa 1902
Positive Organ - a chamber organ belonging to the reign of Louis XIII of France. Intended to remain in a fixed position, as opposed to smaller portable organs
Kenilworth Castle - The Banqueting ChamberKenilworth Castle, Warwickshire - The Banqueting Chamber Date: 1915
Hiroshima - re-building after WWIIReconstruction of Aioi Bridge and Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce & Industry Hall, Hiroshima, Japan. The epicentre of the explision caused by the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945 was
Chateau de Chantilly, France - The Princes ChamberChateau de Chantilly, France - The Doorway through to the Princes Chamber (Chambre de Monsieur le Prince). Date: circa 1910s
The Gondola of Auguste PiccardThe Gondola of Prof. Auguste Piccard and Monsieur Cosyns used for the second ascent into the stratosphere on August 18th, 1932. The maximum height reached was 16, 940 metres (10 1/2 miles)! Date: 1932
Crystal Cave, Hamilton Sound, BermudaStalactites in the Crystal Cave, Hamilton Sound, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s
Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-toA technician inspects an Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to-air missile after it has undergone testing at arctic temperatures in the companys climatic chamber. November 1959. Date: 1959
Aturia sp. nautilusWatercolour by Alice B. Woodward, c. 1880. Drawings 1 and 2 have had their shells removed, drawing 3 is a cross section of the shell and drawing 4 is an apical (open end) view
Brasilia bradfordensis, ammoniteThis Middle Jurassic ammonite has been sectioned to show its chambers with calcite crystals formed in some and hardened mud in others. The body chamber is missing
Kosmoclymenia undulata, ammonoidAn extinct, marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Maorites densicostatus, ammoniteThis flat-shelled ammonite dates from the Lower to Middle Campanian of the Upper Cretaceous, Vega Island, Graham Land, Antarctica
Ammonite, scaphites nodosusA Cretaceous ammonite from Badlands, South Dakota, USA. This specimen retains much of its original shell giving it a beautiful pearly lustre
Cenoceras pseudolineatus, nautiloidA section cut and polished through Jurassic nautiloid from Dorset, UK. Shows the internal chambers filled or partly filled with calcite. Diameter 7cm
Ammonite marbleAsteroceras (large shells) and Promicroceras (small shells) ammonites, seen here in the polished surface of a specimen of marble originating from the Lower Lias, near Yeovil, Somerset
Gastrioceras, goniatiteGastrioceras, a Carboniferous goniatite. Goniatites were highly mobile creatures similar to octopus and squid, but were protected by a coiled shell divided up into many chambers
Nautilus pompilus, common nautilusA seventeenth century carved nautilus shell showing three techniques used by Dutch craftsmen: cameo work, engraving and an opening resembling a helmet cut into the wall of the chamber
Ammonite selectionThree ammonites as follows: (Left to right) Oistoceras wrighti; Asteroceras obtusum (zonal index species); Tragophylloceras loscombi all specimens originate from the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis
Asteroceras obtusum, ammoniteShown here is a Jurassic ammonite. Ammonites are an extinct group of fossil cephalopods related to todays Nautilus
RUIZ ZORRILLA, Manuel (1833-1895). Spanish politician, founder of the Progressist Republican Party. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Chamber of Deputies
MADRAZO, Ricardo (1851-1917). Portrait of D
BULGARIA. RUSE. Sveshtari. Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari (3rd c. BC). Gate to the second chamber. Thracian art
GISBERT, Antonio (1835-1902). Marde MolinaGISBERT, Antonio (1835-1902). Maric de Molina Presentando Her Son to the Valladolid Cortes. 1863. Fernando IV is presented to the Cortes (1295). Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Chamber of Deputies
DEVERIA, Eug讥(1805-1865). Louis-Philippe (1773-1850)DEVERIA, Eug讥 (1805-1865). Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) is sworn in as king before the Chamber of Deputies, 9th August 1830. 1836. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles
IRELAND. LEINSTER. MEATH. Newgrange. Central Chamber of the Megalithic Passage Tomb. Stone plate for offerings. Neolithic art
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak. 310 -299 BC. BULGARIA. Kazanlak. Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak. Four-in-hand, detail of the dome of the burial chamber. Thracian art. Fresco
SPAIN. Antequera. Viera Caves. Cave of Viera. Corridor and drilled access door to the funeral chamber. Neolithic