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Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, after a forced landing due to loss of pressure, June 1913
Richard L Johnson dressed in an Air Force T-1 pressure suitDressed in an Air Force T-1 pressure suit, Richard L. Johnson, Convair F-102A chief test pilot, prepares for take-off at Edwards Air Force Base, California
Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxims steam-driven aeroplane. Note the bent axle which was damaged by excessive upward pressure on the antilift rails used to prevent the aeroplane leaving the ground
Sqn Ldr F R D Swain of the Royal Aircraft EstablishmentSqn Ldr F.R.D. Swain of the Royal Aircraft Establishment Experimental Section in the Siebe, Gorman and Company Ltd pressure suite in which he achieved the world altitude record of 49
WWI Poster, To the Women of BritainWWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, To the Women of Britain, won t you help and send a man to join the army today? Date: 1915
Tracked vehicles on snow - testTracked vehicles on snow to test ground pressure distribution and tractive performance, c.1984 Date: circa 1984
Variable pressure scanning electron microscopeThis electron microscope allows the imaging of samples without any preparation
Volcano typesBlock diagram showing: (top left) Glowing cloud eruption, (top right) a shield volcano and (Bottom) a strato-volcano
Igneous activityA block diagram depicting various types of igneous activity. Fig 65 from The Story of the Earth (1977), a Geological Museum booklet
GarnetsFaceted garnets showing a range of colours. Garnet is the birthstone of January
LCC-LFB fireboat Massey Shaw demonstrates pumpingMoored at its Blackfriars river station on the Victoria Embankment, the newly commissioned Massey Shaw fireboat demonstrates its massive pumping capacity by discharging a vast amount of water
Engine room of LFB fireboat Massey ShawLondon fireboat engineers at work in the engine room of the Massey Shaw. Showing the Port and Starboard engines and various engine and pressure gauges behind the two firefighters
LCC-MFB petrol driven motor tenderThis chain transmission driven first-aid tender carried the first small water tank which operated under pressure of carbon dioxide gas
London (NFS) firefighter in breathing apparatus, WW2Side view of the Mark IV Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set, showing the re-breather bag, mouthpiece, control valves and cooler
Blitz in London -- emergency water mains for firefightingBlitz in London -- frequently water mains were damaged or destroyed by enemy bombing. Emergency water mains were laid, over ground, to which fire hoses could be connected
Pressure from a heavy hand. A large Japanese hand crushing Port Arthur, July 25, 1904, a reference to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905. Date ca. 1904
High pressure steamboat Mayflower first class packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River - Capt. Joseph Brown. Date c1855
The low pressure steamboat Isaac Newton: passing the palisades on the Hudson River New York. Date c1855. The low pressure steamboat Isaac Newton: passing the palisades on the Hudson River New York
Woman weighing love and a butterfly on scalesLove is the Lightest. Woman weighing love and a butterfly on scales. Date: 1847
Car serviceService at a garage, Trelleborg 1950s. Date: 1950s
German Student Duel 1933German students defy the ban on duelling. Date: 1933
Keelers Lie DetectorLeonard Keeler, of North Western University, USA, invents a lie detector based on blood pressure Date: 1937
Machine for testing wagon springsThe Worlds First Railway Laboratory was set up at Crewe in 1864. One hundred years later, the Duke of Edinburgh opened new engineering research laboratories at Derby
That Queer CensationThe staff of a Fleet Street newspaper or magazine, feel the pressure of work as the spectre of a censor brandishing scissors looms over them during World War One
HMS Alert pushed aground by ice, Radmore Harbour, 1875-187Engraving showing HMS Alert as she was pushed ashore by the pressure of the ice surrounding her at Radmore Harbour, Kennedy Channel during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876
Hms intrepid on an Iceberg, Baffin BayHMS Intrepid, an Arctic exploration vessel, having been driven forty feet up an iceberg, Baffin Bay, 1851. The Intrepid, under the command of Lt. J.B
Watts EngineJames Watt develops the low- pressure double-action steam engine
The Mouth and Carriage of the Pneumatic Letter and Parcel CoEngraving showing the mouth of the despatch-tube and a carriage, carrying mail, of the Pneumatic Despatch Company, Battersea, London
Armstrongs hydro-electric machineHydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s
Science / PascalBlaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), French scientist and philosopher. Measuring atmospheric pressure on the tower of Saint-Jacques-la- Boucherie, Paris
Defeated Troops ReturnDefeated German troops returning home adding further pressure to the political and economic crisis
The Aerial Steam HorseThe Flight of Intellect: Mr Golightly experimenting on Mess. Quick & Speeds new patent, high pressure, steam riding rocket warranted not to burst!
France Flattens BritainFrance flattens her old ally. Britain was forced by external pressure in 1931 to abandon the Gold Standard
Crystal Palace / OperaIn consequence of the great pressure for lodgings, the Proprietor of Her Majestys Theatre allows parties visiting the opera to live in their boxes until the next day
Escaping from a SubEscaping from a crippled submarine is easy when you know how : you simply lift the convenient manhole cover, disregard the water pressure, and away you go !
Daily Mail Composing RmAnxious moments in the Daily Mail composing room
Sensationalist NewsThe modern editor and his boss, the pressure to publish sensational news
Band of Hope PrizeC.E.T.S Church of England Temperance Society ? All England Challenge Competition for Band of Hope, Diocese of Canterbury, Herne Bay Branch. Claude Watkins wins a prize
Liebig Games - 1Children make a fountain and in doing so learn some basic principles of physics, such as gravity, pressure and the flow of liquids
Oldsmobile AdvertOldsmobiles quiet performance is proof of its modern design - including counter-weighted crankshaft and full pressure lubrication to all reciprocating parts
Friedrich BergiusFRIEDRICH BERGIUS German chemist who investigated the effect of high pressure on chemical actions
Science / GuerickeHis barrel experiment to demonstrate the strength of atmospheric pressure
