Gravity Collection

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

High Tea above London
A young man defies gravity by perching on a pole on the roof of the new BBC Broadcasting House building and having a truely High Tea! Date: early 1930s

Africa. The Congo. Indigenous with double burden
History of Africa. 19th century. The Congo. Indigenous with double burden. Engraving by Pedro Mullor. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

The Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
The Magnetic Hill is an example of a gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain. It is located at the northwestern edge (in the Magnetic Hill Area)

Isaac Newton (1642-1726/1727). English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Chromolithography, 1876. Date: 2014

Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker N931NA - NASA 931
Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker N931NA / NASA 931 (MSN 18615, ex 63-7998), used for NASA's Reduced Gravity Research Program Date: circa 2000

WEBBER LIFTS TABLE
Jack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, raises a table above shoulder height, by manipulating gravity and etheric forces Date: 1939

GRAVITY ILLUSION
Gravity illusion at The Mystery Spot, Santa Cruz, California - the ball appears to be rolling UP the sloping plank Date: circa 1930

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars. Martians enjoy less gravity, but must withstand a thinner atmosphere with extreme temperatures. Civilisation could be highly developed. Date: 1939

Imaginary life forms on the planet Jupiter -- living with gravity more than twice that of Earth, with atmospheric conditions to match, imposes severe restrictions on them. Date: 1940

Convair JC-131B O-53-7791 (MSN 243), (the letter O denotes Obsolete), modified as JC-131B test-bed. Assigned to Aeronautical Systems Division

Switchback railway, Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, USA
Switchback railway, near Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, USA. A gravity narrow gauge railroad at the Summit Hill coalmines, used by the company to transport coal in trucks to the village across

Sir Isaac Newtons tomb in Westminster Abbey
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

Queen Mary ocean liner: Lifeboats & gravity davits
Lifeboats built to carry 145 passagers, more than the total accommodated in the first Cunarder, " Britannia" : One of the Queen Marys 24 large lifeboats

GLC-LFB Turntable ladder overturned on roadway
Lack of stability at speed and when manoeuvring very occasionally resulted in fire engines overturning, because of the relatively high centre of gravity (loading) of the turntable ladder

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune
The imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune have to put up with an unstable surface which is largely liquid, a dense atmosphere, very high gravity, and chemical storms. Date: 1940

Verne: Illustration from Round the Moon(Autour de la Lune)
Autour de la Lune ( Round the Moon ). The space-travellers enjoy the pleasures of being gravity free! Date: 1870

Low Gravity on Moon
When Man finally lands on the Moon, he will discover the pleasures of comparative weightlessness Date: 1928

Webber Lifts Table
Jack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, raises a 20 kg table by manipulating gravity and etheric forces. Date: 1939

Levitation in Sunderland flying boat by G. H. Davis
Levitation in a Sunderland flying boat during the Second World War. Crew members and objects floated up into the air. This strange experience lasted for just a few moments

The Spillway of the Gileppe Dam, Wallonia, Belgium
The Spillway of the Gileppe Dam, an arch-gravity dam on the Gileppe river in Jalhay, Liege province, Wallonia, Belgium. Built in the 1870s to supply water for the wool industry in nearby Verviers

London Street Boys and their soapbox racer
Five London Street Boys (can you spot them all?!) and their homemade soapbox racer go-cart, fitted with perambulator wheels. Date: circa 1908

Fire appliances in a London fire station appliance room
Motorised fire engines in a London fire station appliance room. Note the wooden blocks on the floor, to help stop the ladders deforming, especially in damp conditions

Aswan Low Dam and Reservoir
The Aswan Low Dam and Reservoir (Old Aswan Dam). The dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Date: circa 1924

Pune, India - Khadakwasla Water Works
Pune (Poona), India - Khadakwasla Water Works. The original dam (pictured on this postcard), was built in the 1879 as a masonry gravity dam and was the first of its kind in the world. Date: 1910s

Little girls playing shuttlecock
Little girls hit their shuttlecocks high into the air, but gravity always wins... first published 1879

The Gamblers Gravity: Studies In Facial Expression At The M
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Popov on Tightrope
Popov the clown of the Moscow State Circus, defies gravity by walking the tightrope during a circus visit to Cornwall, England!

Moscow State Circus
A female acrobat skillfully balances on one arm on a male acrobats head. Photographed when the circus was visiting Cornwall, England

Circus Acrobats / Moscow
At the Moscow State Circus, a male acrobat skilfully balances a female acrobat on his forehead. Presumably she is going to spin around in the strange metal contraption!

HOLLYWOOD ON THE MOON (Henry Kuttner) The Moons low gravity is a godsend to the special effects department

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

Weighing the Earth C1936
A gravity-measuring device which can measure the weight of the earth

Broadcasting House Japes
A young man defies gravity by perching on a pole on the roof of the new BBC Broadcasting House building!

Liebig Games - 2
Three boys construct a tower with wooden bricks, learning some of the basic principles of physics - gravity, balance and the distribution of loads

Liebig Games - 1
Children make a fountain and in doing so learn some basic principles of physics, such as gravity, pressure and the flow of liquids

Gravity-Free Conditions
Space travellers will have to learn to live in a gravity- free environment

First on Moon / Gravity
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON Cavor and Bedford try the effects of lunar gravity

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