Ray Collection (page 6)

Royal Ballet School, Aldeburgh Festival 1961
Royal Ballet School rehearsing at the Jubilee Hall for 4 July performances, Aldeburgh Festival 1961 Date: 1961

Traffic control for pedestrian crossings
Traffic control by light-ray : the first system of its kind. A new method of controlling road traffic by beams of light broken by pedestrian and vehicles

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Military radar in wartime by G. H. Davis
Military radar: how this vital secret weapon helped the Allied land forces to achieve final victory during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Use of radar in the war at sea by G. H. Davis
Radar in the war at sea: some ways in which the Royal Navy used this weapon during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Dangers of radioactivity by G. H. Davis
Death rays released by an atomic bomb explosion: the dangers of radioactivity explained in drawings. Date: 1946

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British athletes undergoing light therapy before Olympics
British hopefuls for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games are given a course of light therapy or ray treatment in a Westminster surgery Pictured are J. R. Major, V.P. Brown, F. Gaby, S. Ferris and H. A

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People who keep smiling in spite of their matrimonial troubles. Five women who have recently gone through legal proceedings and seem to have emerged unscathed

Sir Arthur S. T. Griffith-Boscawen, Vanity Fair, RAY
Lieut-Col SIR ARTHUR SACKVILLE TREVOR GRIFFITH-BOSCAWEN (1865-1946) British Conservative Party politician Date: 1865-1946

Gabrielle Ray (1883 - 1973), Edwardian Singer, Actress and Dancer. One of the very popular " Merry Widow" Company Dalys. 1909

Testing Sound Waves
Ray Kulz blows his trumpet, Jimmy Noel strums his guitar and George Macdonald strikes the cymbal into an OSCILLOSCOPE to see if sound waves vary. Very much so! Date: 1930s

Lior et Olivier LeO21, F-AIZO, Golden Ray, of Air Union

Ivan Ray Yates, CBE, FREng, FRAeS (1929-2015)

London - The Cloisters of Westminster Abbey
Bright sunshine flooding into the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey, London. Date: circa 1912

Woman in the Sun series postcard - Kirchner
Beautiful postcard (1/6) from Kirchners Woman in the Sun series. A pretty girl admiring some beautiful Arum Lilies. Raphael Kirchner (1876 - August 2, 1917) was an Austrian artist

New York souvenir postcard, featuring three inset details on a rising sun background (complete with paddlesteamer!). The insets show (from left): the Trinity Building

Miss Gabrielle Ray in The Merry Widow
Miss Gabrielle Ray (1883-1973), English actress, dancer and singer in The Merry Widow, an operetta by the AustroHungarian composer Franz Lehar

Raynham Ray George Hanna AFC (1928-2005) in the cockpit
Raynham Ray George Hanna, AFC, (1928-2005) in the cockpit of Spitfire IXB, MH434. James Gilbert photo. Date: 1928

Green skate illustration
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Stingray illustration
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

LS Plate 177 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 187 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 191 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 8 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

New Methods of Plants 1682
Book plate from Methodus Plantarum Nova in which John Ray published his natural system of plant classification

LS Plate 185 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Portrait believed to be the Dutch Chemist Jan Baptist van He
This portrait was originally believed to be the Naturalist John Ray (1627-1705) and it was even suggested to be a portrait of Robert Hooke (1635-1703)

Raja marginata, skate egg case
Specimen jar containing the egg case of a skate (Raja marginata), popularly known as a mermaids purse. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Colourful illustration of Makaira nigricans, blue marlin and

Colourful illustration of a fish and a ray
Plate 43 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Heliobatis radians, fossil stingray
Specimen of the fossil stingray (Heliobatis radians) originating from the Eocene rocks of Wyoming, U.S.A. This specimen is around forty-five million years old

Study of a ray
Page 450 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Anatomical study of a ray
Page 451 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Eagle ray (Myliobatis aguila). Engraving after a drawing by a F.Padr󮠅 ngraving

CANNON, Ray (1892-1977). North American writer. The writer sailing. Oil

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F. Ray Comstock offers the delightful musical success, The school girl music by Leslie Stuart, composer of Florodora; book by Henry Hamilton, author of The Duchess of Dantzig & Paul M

The original and only, Ray Burton the greatest & most novel mid-air juggler & balancer & the only swinging wire rifle shot in the world : three great acts in one. Date ca. 1892

Houdini, nothing on earth can hold Houdini! Fred Ray & Co. in an intensely funny Roman travesty.... Date ca. 1901

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