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Glenwood Cooker AdvertGas or coal does its best work in this remarkable Glenwood range - five burners for gas and four covers for coal... the Thermolator automatically controls the oven heat
WW2 poster, Switch off that Light! Less Light -- More Planes. Date: 1940s
Mauna Loa Volcano - Hawaiian Islands, USA Date: circa 1930s
The Man Who Broke 60 in The Open - H. M. BatemanGolfers and spectators alike suffer heat exhaustion at the golf Open. Date: 1950
Icarus and DaedalusDaedalus and his son Icarus escape from Crete with man- made wings, but Icarus flies too near the sun : the heat melts the wax on his wings, plunging him into the sea
Fable / Wind and SunTHE WIND AND THE SUN Both disputed over who could cause the traveller to shed his cloak; the wind blew strongly, but in the suns gentle heat the man derobed
Tower Bridge jams in summer heatTower Bridge, London, jams when the metal expands in the summer heat on 2 July 1968. The bridge is closed for two hours while firefighters cool it down with their hoses
The Sahara Desert, North west Africa - two camels stride across the sand, accompanied by their Bedouin owner. Date: circa 1915
Central heating for cars / W H RobinsonThe Autofooetjoye central heating device, consisting of a small zinc water tank glued to the back of the car, warmed by an oil stove with connecting pipework that the driver can rest his feet
The Chemist 1827A chemist with his apprentice in his laboratory. A copper alembic is on his left, to the right a sand heat and a furnace is in the middle. Date: 1827
The War of the WorldsTHE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
The Brewer 1827Brewers sweat and toil as they stir and brew beer and haul heavy barrels up and down a ladder next to the sweltering heat of a kiln
Oxford V Cambridge 1877(L) Danger Ahead (R) At Barnes Race which had a controversial dead heat finish
Old Delhi street sceneA crowded, hot, dusty street in Old Delhi. A vendor stands with a large basket on his head in the centre of the crowd Date: 1987
Tipton Slasher sculptureWelder and sculptor Jack Bouckley, of Wolverhampton, works on a metal sculpture of 19th Century Black Country heavyweight prize fighter William Perry, known as The Tipton Slasher
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1938Providing ample accommodation for all the food and untensils required in cooking for a family of 6 to 8. This is one of the popular Main gas cookers obtainable in all-enamel
London Salvage Corps at work with salvage sheetsThe London Salvage Corps were financed by the Insurance Companies and were not part of the London Fire Brigade. However they operated in concert with the Brigade
The Road to Ascot / 1846A sketch on the road to Ascot. The summer of 1846 was a particularly hot one bringing that awful accompaniment - dust !
SOLAR PANELS 1929Solar panels on the roof of a house will capture the suns heat during the summer and store it to heat the house in the bleak mid-winter. Date: 1929
A Blast Furnace in Action Date: circa 1920s
Fuel winter crisis: Heating pumped from the earth and waterDiagram illustrating how heat in the earth and water can provide heating for homes and factories. City Electrical Engineer of Norwich
Cooling Her Heels! By Dorothy M. MorganLady sitting in front of a fan in her underwear, trying to cool herself in the heat. Date: 1927
Manila DocksUnloading a shipment of cargo from ships in Manila docks, Philippines. Three young men in shorts wipe the sweat from themselves in the heat. Date: late 1930s
Lascar Seamen at work and at rest, 1906Series of Photographs showing Lascar seamen at work in the stokehole of a passenger liner (centre image) and at rest in the Home for Asiatic Seamen (bottom images)
Joule / Electricity TestJames Prescott Joule, English physicist, measures the rate at which heat is produced by an electric current. The joule, a unit of work or energy, is named after him
FOULIS GAS FIRE / 1889Foulis Patent Regenerative Gas fire, supplied by the Carron Company. Universally admitted to be the most efficient gas fires by the trade both at home and abroad
Mushroom cloud Nagasaki Japan in 1945, atomic bombMushroom cloud following the expolsion of Nagaski atomic bomb, Japan, World War II
Smelting Furnace - Sierra Leone, West AfricaSmelting in a bloomery-type furnace in Sierra Leone, West Africa. circa 1910s
Near naked man wades in a pond to gather water lilies - BaliNear naked man in a cooly hat wades in a pond to gather water lilies. Bali, Indonesia Date: 1989
Boiling eggs at the Beppu Hot Springs, JapanA sign advertising the option to boil an egg at the Beppu Hot Springs, Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred
Diseases of the Skin - Plate 5 - Scabies or Itch, Red Gum Rash or Spotted Heat, Honey Sickness - Honey Scab or Pustular Tetter Impetigo, Shingles
Iron processing in Bronze Age, Kazakhstan areaBronze Age craftsmen (blacksmiths) processing iron with special tools, shaping the metal by hammering. In the background are yurts and a mountain landscape. 3000-1200 BCE
White HeatAn oil painting of a strong, white workhorse, led closely by a farmer, with another man trailing behind, by the agricultural equipment being dragged along. Date: circa 1920
In The Sea at Margate, photograph of man with parasolIn The Sea at Margate, reportage photograph of man holding a parasol, smoking a cigarette, and reading a newspaper whilst in the sea
Salt Workers DroitwichDroitwich in Worcestershire was the centre of extensive works producing salt from brine. Conditions in the brine boiling sheds were arduous
Apsley Pellatt Glass Manufacture, London. Date: 1852
Advert for Coalite smokeless coal 1951Coalite was a ideal smokeless fuel for every type of grate, cooker and boiler. Date: 1951
The Finish of the Mile Race- A Dead HeatA number of exhausted young male runners battle it out as they near the finishing line. A largely male crowd watch on with enthusiasm
Gas Light & Coke Company in Nine Elms on the south bank of the River Thames, photograph showing their shire horse and carriage. Date: 1897
Oxford Cambridge 1892 Transport Boating Boatoxford, cambridge, 1892, transport, boating, boat, races, finish, dead, heat, barnes, common, v, the, 10008639
Comic postcard, Just thawed out Date: 20th century
Tourists on camels at the Sphinx, Egypt, c. 1900Tourists on camels at the Sphinx, Egypt, c.1900
Advertisement for Welsbach, providers of gas mantles & burners and gas radiators, showing a cosy domestic scene with two little girls
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Gulf of Naples, Campania, ItalyEVintage 19th century photograph: ruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius, Gulf of Naples, Campania, Italy
Drying and rolling the green tea, China. (3 of 4) Date: 1832
Roasting tea over a fire, China. Date: 1851
Roasting top grade tea over a fire, China. Date: 1851
Drying tea by roasting it over a fire. Date: circa 1870s