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Airship of Uranus
Airships of planet Uranus are powered by taking in air at the nose, compressing it and blasting it out at the rear. Maybe we on Earth could develop some such technology ?

Science / Tesla
Working in America, Nikola Tesla develops his induction coil, producing light from a transformer using alternating current. Date: 1895

Electricity Oersted
The Danish scientist Christian Oersted observes the link between electricty and magnetism, enabling him to develop electro-magnetism leading to modern machines

English Electric Lightning F.1/3 8056M / XG337 (msn 95026), at the RAF Museum Cosford. (One of the pre-production batch used to develop the F.3 variant) Date: circa 1989

Leduc 0. 21 01, mounted on a S. E. 161
Leduc 0.21 01, mounted on its SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc mother-ship, parked next door to the second 0.21, also mounted on a Languedoc mother-ship

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 650 Argosy T. 2 9Q-COA
(ex Royal Air Force) Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy T.2 9Q-COA Jason (msn 6791, ex XR136), of O.R.A.S. (Otrag Range Air Services) at East Midlands Airport, in November 1977

Fa Facilities Experimental Center - Grumman F9F-8P Cougar
Federal Aviation Administration Facilities Experimental Center - Grumman F9F-8P Cougar N473 NAFEC-14. On loan from the United States Navy - BuAer number 141683 msn 15 ( N474, NAFEC-15)

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 650 Argosy C. 1 9Q-COE
(ex Royal Air Force) Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy C.1 9Q-COE (msn 6778, ex XP446), of O.R.A.S. (Otrag Range Air Services) at East Midlands Airport

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 650 Argosy T. 2 9Q-COA
(ex Royal Air Force) Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy T.2 9Q-COA Jason (msn 6791, ex XR136), of O.R.A.S. (Otrag Range Air Services) at East Midlands Airport

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885a'1959) - English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885-1959) - English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the octane rating to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II

Kaiser Wilhelm IIs sons
The six sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II pictured in 1900: (l to r standing) Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942), Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951), Adalbert (1884-1948); (in front) Oskar (1888-1958)

George Holt Thomas (1869-1929) - the industrialist who formed in 1912 the Aircraft Manufacturing Co Ltd (Airco) from which, in 1917

Reading Subconscious
In Ray Avery Myers fiction Into the subconscious, future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

Loudun - Possessed Nuns
The nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule develop convent hysteria and claim to be possessed by demons

Keep Fit / Throwing Ball
Throwing a ball during a Keep Fit class to develop rhythm & eye training. Date: 1940s

Poster, youth club photography opportunity
Poster advertising a youth club photography opportunity. Six members invited to take photos, develop and print them, all equipment provided. Date: circa 1960s

Mikoyan I-250 -the Soviets were just starting to develop jet propulsion at wars end, this type being first flown in March 1945

Testing time of the fighter plane by G. H. Davis
Intensified air war -- the testing time of the fighter plane: the race to evolve a dominant type during the Second World War

Livingston, Maxim, Gates, Grahame-White - Olympia Aero Exhib
Hendon, Londons first aerodrome, had been largely developed from 1910 by Claude Grahame-White, against the views of the newspaper media who had derided his earlier efforts to develop the airfield

Lanchester flying testbed used to develop engines for the Gloster Meteor, from 1943 Date: 1943

APT PoP train (Advanced Passenger Train)
APT PoP train to develop the tilt system and other active suspensions

Advert for Imperial Chemical Industries; shortage of rubber
During World War Two, Britain got 90% of their suppies of natural rubber from Japan, due to this, rubber became scarce. Old rubber was collected from old tyres and worn hose-pipes

The largest photograph ever taken in 1907
The largest single photograph produced in 1907. The negative measured seven inches wide and six feet long. At the moment of exposure the film moved at 20 to 80 inches per second

Venus Airship
The innovative people of Venus develop this birdlike man- powered airship which moves by flapping its wings. Date: 1942

Sailboat on Mercury
The insectoid residents of the planet Mercury will develop their own technology to navigate their chemically polluted waters : mica will be the material of choice

Radium Airship
Other worlds will surely develop their own technologies for space travel : this radium-powered airship of Saturn uses the planets natural resources

HURRICANE PROTOTYPE
Sidney Camms F36/34 monoplane will develop into the Hurricane, the most efficient if not the most glamorous of the Royal Air Forces fighters

Future Scientists
INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS (Ray Avery Myer) Future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

The Resistant Ray
THE RESISTANT RAY (Francis Flagg) Germans develop a gravity- resistant ray : they shoot down the heros plane, then invite him to walk to them Date: 1932

Boy with Train Set
A hobby that lasts a boy for a very long time - trains! He can develop his hobby until he reaches the standard of model railway societies - a lifetime of leisure hours

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