Surface Collection (page 3)

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn. The unstable surface would be impracticable except for light, insect-like life forms who would have to breathe a gaseous atmosphere. Date: 1939

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

Jupiters Sea of Lava by Scriven Bolton
With 100-mile mountains as waves - Jupiters Sea of Lava. An astronomers conception of the surface of Jupiter, the giant of the planets by Scriven Bolton, the well-known astronomer-artist. Date: 1923

Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling surface to air missile about to launch 1430 hrs, 23 Aug 1944

Bottlenose Dolphin - Baby / Calf dolphin being nudged
Bottlenose Dolphin - Baby/Calf dolphin being nudged to surface by mother (Tursiops truncatus)

Lemmings footprints on snow surface, typical track of a lemming in winter tundra. (Lemmus sibiricus ). winter tundra of Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic

Floating landing strips for aircraft by G. H. Davis
Surface tension seadromes: floating landing strips for aircraft. A revolutionary British invention: a floating aerodrome tested by the Admiralty. 1945

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

The Gentle Art of Excavating - a specially designed skimmer
The beginning of a garden suburb. Excavating a new road with a specially designed skimmer, a typically rickety contraption from the inventive mind of gadget king, William Heath Robinson. Date: c.1938

Bumpy Lunar Landscape
The craters of extinct volcanoes testify to the violent past of the Moon. Date: circa 1880

Surface worker, South Wales colliery
A middle aged surface worker at a colliery in South Wales

Susi - with baking bowl full of suds. 1950s

German submarine on the surface at night, 1915
A German submarine running on the surface of the sea at night in 1915 during the German blockade of the British Isles in World War One. Date: 1915

The Channel Islands - Plemont - Clift Inlet Bridge and House. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands. Saint Ouen (JÞ▓▓iais)

Prehistoric Hearths, Dundrum, Old Land Surface Plateau With Flint Implements, Bones and Pottery. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Dundrum). Date: circa early 1900s

Christmas card in the shape of a dressing table with mirror. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a food grater containing nuts. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with a jar of eggs. 1950s

Newtownards Rd. Belfast - a busy street scene with shop fronts, tram, people, horse vehicles and a cobbled road surface, and Church visible. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

HMS Marlborough - A Torpedo breaking surface before its run
HMS Marlborough - A Torpedo breaking surface before starting its run. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

Susi - climbing down onto a table
Susi - climbing down from a large camera onto a table. 1950s

Roman barbotin ceramics. 1st century AD
Roman barbotin ceramics. Found in Egyptian tombs as grave goods and the Meroitic kingdom. 1st century AD. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

United States. Bandelier National Monument. Anasazi Culture, ancestrals Pueblo Indians. Detail of an petroglyph. State of New Mexico

Apollo 11 lunar landings, July 1969
Page from The Illustrated London News showing four photographs of American astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin walking about and conducting scientific experiements on the moon, taken by Neil Armstrong

Lunar Landscape in Sun
A lunar landscape in full sunlight : the Earth in the distance. Date: circa 1890

Traces on the Moon
Space travellers of days to come may well find traces of the Moons former inhabitants lying about among the ruins of their civilisation

Women in Glass Factory
Two women working in a glass factory. They are mixing something with a pestle in a mortar; a Bunsen burner with a large flame sits on the work surface. Date: circa 1930

Spaceship over Moon
FANTASIA LUNAR - a huge spacecraft from Earth flies over the Moons rocky surface. Date: 1929

Bridge across lake at St. Jamess Park laid at night
Men working under floodlight to lay a new bridge across the lake at St. Jamess Park as the birdlife of the park slept. Date: 1961

Lunar Landscape 1911
The surface of the Moon as imagined in 1911, with a volcanic crater, a rocky plain and mountains. Date: 1911

Greetings postcard from Iglau (Jihlava), Czech Republic
Greetings postcard with an embossed surface from Iglau (Jihlava), Czech Republic. Date: circa 1900s

Fire from gas explosion on a London street
Fire from a gas explosion on a London street near the Princes Theatre, with a fireman standing nearby. Date: circa 1928

Sopwith Model XII: Denudation of mineral veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on inclined strata, with increased complexity to the situation in Model VII

Sopwith Model VII: Surface denudation of veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model VII: Denudation of mineral veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model XII: Mineral vein denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on inclined strata, with increased complexity to the situation in Model VII

Sopwith Model VII: Surface denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model IV: Fallacious coal indications
This model depicts the scenario where from the surface an abundance of coal appears to exist, but there is actually very little quantity below

Wold Cottage meteorite (detail)
The earliest surviving meteorite seen to land in the UK fell in Wold Cottage, Yorkshire, in 1795. It prompted the first serious investigation into the origin of meteorites

Fifth Avenue South, Jamestown, North Dakota, USA. Date: circa 1908

Come down under Australia emigration poster 1926-7
Poster encouraging British emigration to Australia, 1926-7. To the young unemployed miner, come down under and be a digger on the surface. Work, health and happiness on the land in Australia

The Burra Burra copper-mine in South Australia, showing the surface operations. 1848

Box, Primus notice lantern plates
Cardboard box originally containing twelve Primus notice lantern plates, glass plates prepared on one side so that notices can be written on them in ink, and displayed to an audience

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

Road and trees near Millers Dale, Peak District
A rural view which has probably not altered much, except for the road surface which show how relatively little traffic there was in the Edwardian era in rural Britain. Date: circa 1906

Bottlenose Dolphin - appearing with nose above surface (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphins - with mouths open above surface - Rissos Dolphin (Grampus griseus) in background (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphin - two with mouths open above surface (Tursiops truncatus)

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