Failure Collection (page 2)

Cartoon, Oscar Wilde and William Wilde
Cartoon, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), poet and playwright, comforted by his brother William Wilde (1852-1899) in the face of American criticism of his play, Vera

Cartoon, The Kaisers dream, WW1
Cartoon, The Kaisers dream (or nightmare) after losing at Verdun -- a ginger-haired angel holding a rabbit. Date: 1916

King Cnut the Great fails to halt the incoming tide
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

Messerschmitt Me 328 -seen in wind tunnell model form, it was designed to use pulse jets It proved an expensive failure

Stock market crash, Vienna, 1873
The failure of the stock exchange in Vienna, 9th May 1873. Date: 9th May 1873

Palissy at Work
BERNARD PALISSY at work on his invention, surrounded by evidence of failure... his family in despair... and he himself discouraged... Date: 1510 - 1589

WWII - Mussolini slips up invading Greece - First Day Cover. A nice pun on Greece and Grease. Date: 1941

HMS Brilliant and HMS Sirius, Ostend, Belgium, WW1
Aerial view of two obsolete British cruisers, HMS Brilliant and HMS Sirius, which took part in a failed attempt to block the port of Ostend, Belgium

People facing ruin from bank failure in the Panic of 1907, N
In the summer of 1907, the American economy was showing signs of weakness as a number of business and Wall Street brokerages went bankrupt

An awkward position - true love never did run smooth circa early 19th century

WW2 poster, Care of instruments is vital. Your Jar is their Jam. Printed for Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1943

Caricature of Wilkie Collins and Edgar Bruce
Caricature of William Wilkie Collins (left, 1824-1889), English novelist, playwright and short story writer, and Edgar Bruce (right, 1845?-1901), actor-manager

Dornier Do. X
Seen here on a test flight, the 150-passenger DO.X is the largest aircraft in the world, but as with most grandiose projects, it proves a colossal failure - only 3 are built. Date: July 1929

Vernon at Cartagena / 1741
The Spanish American port of Cartagena besieged by Admiral Vernon. Despite Vernons claims, the operation was a failure, and many men were lost through disease. Date: March 1741

French Quit Spain 1813
The French evacuate Spain, acknowledging that Napoleons Peninsula Campaign has been a disastrous failure Date: 1813

MAXIMs 1894 PROJECT
Hiram Maxims monoplane project, is tested on a track at Baldwyns Park, Kent : its failure to rise more than a few centimetres discourages further experiments Date: 31 July 1894

Cartoon, A failure, WW1
Cartoon, A failure. Two French soldiers coming out of a cafe remark that a shell has fallen in the middle of the street, avoiding all the African soldiers fighting with the German army

Vickers FB 12c single-seat fighter plane, which first flew in spring 1917. Seen here is the second of two which were built, serial no. A 7352. The design was a failure. Date: circa 1917

Sunbeam Bomber built for the RNAS, this single seat torpedo bomber flew in late 1917 but proved a failure

A picturesque view of the state of the nation for February 1778. An Indian (America) cuts the cows horns of English commerce, milked by Holland

Found long missing Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot
American Lincoln Ellsworth and his British colleague and pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon who on 23 November 1935, started from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot making preparations
Lincoln Ellsworth (left) and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (right), his pilot, making preparations for their trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

Bomber v. warship and merchantman by G. H. Davis
Bomber versus warship and merchantman: difficulties confronting any German attempt at aerial blockade during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Story of Cruel Joseph - Joseph Chamberlain and Paul Kruger
The Story of Cruel Joseph (cont.) - Joseph Chamberlain tries to reach accord with the South African Boer leader Paul Kruger (1825-1905) (as a boar), but only ends up getting his ankles bitten

Cupid Baffled - cannot believe love is not blossoming here
Cupid Baffled - he cannot believe love is not blossoming here... Date: 1907

WWI - Propaganda postcard - Kaisers dream bubbles burst
WWI - Propaganda postcard - The German Kaisers dream bubbles are popping before his eyes. By this point however (late 1914)

Hard Luck Sir - Young lad lets in a goal
" Hard Luck Sir" - Young lad lets in a goal... Date: 1906

WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them

Bristol Type 133, R-10, after it had crashed on a field at Longwell Green following its failure to recover from a flat spin

Piccard ascent failure September 1930
Piccard ascent failure, September 1930. Date: 1930

Saunders-Roe A33 K4773
Saunders-Roe A33, K4773, following structural failure of the mainplane during high-speed taxy tests in the Solent

Fernandez stand at the Salon Aeronautique in 1909. This aircraft flew at the aviation meeting at Rheims in 1909 but the designer/pilot was killed later in the year due to the failure of a wire in

Ford Edsel Advert
The Edsel was much hyped before its launch, but was a complete failure with the public Date: 1957

Another air-ship failure. Illustration shows the wreck of an airship labeled High Finance at the leading edge of storm clouds labeled Investigation Merger Decision Law; the crash has ruined

Migrant agricultural workers family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers camp, Nipomo, California

Wreck of HMA1, the Royal Navys first airship
The wreck of HMA1, The Mayfly. Built by Vickers, this was the first naval airship built in the UK; work began on it in 1909 at Cavendish Dock

A rather boring date companion. A glamorous young lady slightly regrets her choice of evening companion as his tales of carpet salesmanship fail to create the necessary spark

Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends
All these write regularly - Why the Devil don t you? Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends! This card illustrates those individuals who will oft communicate with the written word

Gathering seaweed for food, Ireland
Scenes showing men, women and children gathering seaweed for food on the coast of Clare, west of Ireland. They are also shown picking, drying and selling d hlisk, and gathering corrigan

Stores arriving at Gallipoli
A war stores depot for an Australasian division, on the beach at Galllipoli. The Dardanelles campaign, the aim of which was to overpower Turkey, who had entered the war on Germanys side

Handspring dive - 1906 Olympic Games
Clark of Great Britain performing a handspring dive at the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens. The event was staged as a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the resumption of the Games

Stone Putting - Olympic Games 1906
The Shot Put or Stone Putting showing N. Georgantas of Greece, the winner with a throw of 19.92 1/2 metres at the 1906 Athens Summer Olympics

Rope Climbing - Olympic Games 1906
G. Aliprantes of Constantinople, the winner of the rope-climbing event at the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens. The Games were staged as a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the resumption of

Olympic Games - Javelin throwing
A javelin thrower at the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens. The fourth modern Olympic games, these games were held in Athens and staged as a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the resumption of

The Roman Rocks Lighthouse, Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
Engraving of the Roman Rocks lighthouse at Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, March 1869. This iron lighthouse was built in 1860, but showed signs of structural failure shortly thereafter

Insurrection in Savoia
Mazzinis attempted insurrection in Savoia is frustrated by the failure of general Ramorino to give support against the French

The Great Eastern steam ship under construction
The Great Eastern steam-ship on the stocks at Millwall shipyard. Built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, at the time of her launch in 1858, she was the largest steam ship in the world

Shipping the Atlantic Telegraph onboard the Great Eastern
Engraving showing Isambard Kingdom Brunels steam-ship Great Eastern receiving the Atlantic cable from a smaller vessel. The cable was manufactured at Messrs

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