Surface Collection (page 7)

Female surface workers queueing, South Wales
A line of female surface workers queueing up at a mine in South Wales, probably for their wages

Miners getting out of a shaft lift, South Wales
A group of miners getting out of a shaft lift at surface level at Llanerch Colliery, near Pontypool in South Wales

Strange bird squawks at a man
A strange bird with webbed feet squawks at a man

Old man working on the street
An old man (possibly Spanish) working on the street. He wears a scruffy overcoat, a beret, and his glasses on a string round his neck. He has a small wooden work bench and a box of materials

Digging up the tarmac on a road
A workman in a trilby hat digs up the tarmac surface of a road with a pneumatic drill

Surface Plate being developed
A surface plate being developed in the Replika Department of the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Tranquil Lake - Silent Trees. A clear still blue pond dotted with water lilies. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Preliminary preparation for a road surface
A mechanical steam-powered digger by the M.M Barrat brothers is used to break the ground in preparation for a road to be constructed

Oil seepage - Iran
A seepage of oil up through the soil - Iran

Planet Saturn
Saturns rings observed from the surface of the planet

Lunar surface sketched by Galileo
A sketch of the lunar surface made by Galileo and originally published in his book Siderius Nuncius in 1610

River bed gold sifting on the Turon, Australia
River bed sifting on the Turon river, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. The pump is lowered 12 feet from the surface of the river

Roman pavement in Cannon Street
A Roman tesselated pavement discovered by workmen at a depth of 12 feet from the surface. The pavement, made up of tiles of red tesserae was without pattern

Repavement of the Strand
Illustration showing work in progress on the West side of Temple Bar. Workers are using heavy rammers to level the surface

A CARD SHARP / C. 1850
A card sharp tries to con two naive country folk at an inn; they are using a barrel as a playing surface

Cable Railway Future
Overhead railways, in the form of cable lines, would avoid the problems of surface transport in todays congested environment

Submarine Colonies
When our planets surface gets overcrowded, we can build under water colonies - colonise the ocean floor : New empires may spring up on the ocean floor, perhaps rivaling even

Camera Obscura
A camera obscura, invented in 1558 by Porta, can be set up in a tent, with a lens and mirror on top and a suitable surface inside onto which the view is projected

Water Tricycle - 4
American inventor Terry, who crossed the Channel in a tricycle-boat in July 1884, now proposes this aquatic tricycle which travels on the surface : a calm day needed !

Touring in the Alps
Motor touring in the Alps : the quality of the road- surface ensures that even if you meet another vehicle, neither of you is likely to be travelling at speed !

Stone Quarry France
A somewhat idealised quarry where the slate (french : ardoise) is cut out in neat slices and winched up to the surface

Fishing for Frogs / China
Fishing for frogs in China using a small blaze in a metal basket to attact the creatures to the surface

Clay Cross Miners / Shaft
Colliers at the Clay Cross mine at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, wait at the bottom of the pit as their colleagues are hauled to the surface, 300 yards above

Eros and Psyche
Love pursuing the soul - what appears on the surface to be no more than a simple love story, can, if you wish, be interpreted as carrying a profound spiritual message

Night Attack by Water
Troops in boats attack a town at night by water - but the defenders have placed spikes under the surface which could sink the boats unless they are careful

Climbing Great Gable
A rock climber on Great Gable, Cumberland, England

Submarine on Surface
A submarine travelling on the surface

Gold Prospectors
IN SOUTH AFRICA prospectors examine gold found close to the surface

Mars Canals
Birds eye view of part of the Martian surface, showing the canal-like network

Tunnels / Channel
Veyrrier, a French engineer, proposes an elevated tunnel resting on the sea-bed, with sections lowered from the surface

Air Wonder Stories scifi magazine cover - CITIES IN THE SKY
CITIES IN THE AIR (Edmond Hamilton) - New York becomes an airborne travelling city which is elevated above the Earths surface to avoid pollutants

Typical landscape on the planet Mars
A typical landscape on the planet Mars, in one of the marshy areas

Different aspects of the planet Mars, showing the variations in the character of its surface

Playing Shuttleboard
DECK SPORTS The open space and smooth hard surface of the ships deck fit it admirably for the popular game of SHUTTLEBOARD

U-BOAT U9
German U-boat U9

Orion Vacuum Cleaner
The ORION takes the leaning out of cleaning - has no revolving brush to wear away the surface by friction - and it costs only Nine Guineas !

U-Boat Periscope in Use
A German officer uses a periscope to look above the surface

Chinese Mine
The Surface works at a Chinese mine. Date: 19th Century

British M. 1 Submarine
With its enormous forward gun and a sizeable one aft, the M.1 seems better suited to surface combat than to underwater operations

Sanatorium in the Sky
Sanatoria in the sky will be even healthier than in the mountains - theres unlimited sunshine above the clouds, and you leave the germs down there on the surface

Crowded Air-Lanes
When air travel becomes popular, the sky routes will become as crowded as those on the surface : some kind of air traffic control will surely be needed

Metric Series - Surface
Surface - a square metre

Surface of Mercury
An artists impression of the surface of Mercury

Saturns Rings 8
The rings of Saturn as seen from the planets surface

The Moons Surface
The Moons surface, spattered with rocks and the craters of extinct volcanoes, testifying to a more violent past than the present appearance suggests

Moon / Lunar Craters
Lunar craters

Moon / Forming Crater
The stages of formation of a lunar crater

Moon - Fracastorius
The moons surface showing Fracastorius - a spot on the south-western part of the moons disc

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