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Temperatures Collection

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Physical Chart of Indian Ocean (Currents, Temperatures ?)

Physical Chart of Indian Ocean (Currents, Temperatures ?)
Physical Chart of Indian Ocean (Currents, Temperatures, Trade Routes)

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Physical Chart of Atlantic Ocean (Currents, Temperatures ?)

Physical Chart of Atlantic Ocean (Currents, Temperatures ?)
Physical Chart of Atlantic Ocean (Currents, Temperatures, Trade Routes)

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Physical Chart of Pacific Ocean (Currents, Temperatures ?)

Physical Chart of Pacific Ocean (Currents, Temperatures ?)
Physical Chart of Pacific Ocean (Currents, Temperatures, Trade Routes)

Background imageTemperatures Collection: RMS Titanic - shipping chart of North Atlantic

RMS Titanic - shipping chart of North Atlantic for the month of April 1912, Sheet 133, Meteorological Office, London. The chart is in colour and displays wind, sea current, sea temperature

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Photograph of Indian troops lined up to receive inoculations

Photograph of Indian troops lined up to receive inoculations, 1916 (c). The high temperatures in Mesopotamia, alongside poor medical facilities, flies

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars. Martians enjoy less gravity, but must withstand a thinner atmosphere with extreme temperatures. Civilisation could be highly developed. Date: 1939

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to

Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to
A technician inspects an Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to-air missile after it has undergone testing at arctic temperatures in the companys climatic chamber. November 1959. Date: 1959

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Chemical Technology

Chemical Technology
A JEM 7A microscope can examine gas or solid interface reactions at temperatures of up to 1200oC, Chemistry Division, Harwell. Date: 1960s

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Androsace Chumbii (Chumbyi) in winter

Androsace Chumbii (Chumbyi) in winter
Androsace Chumbii (Chumbyi), of the Primulaceae family, also known as rock jasmine or fairy candelabra, seen here in winter

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Benfleet Creek during the winter of 1947

Benfleet Creek during the winter of 1947
Benfleet Creek in Essex, haunt of motor boat enthusiasts and summer bathing belles wears a forbidding aspect during the big freeze of 1947

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Baby incubators at the Berlin Exhibition

Baby incubators at the Berlin Exhibition
Dr Lions baby incubators proved to be a great attraction at the Berlin Exhibition. Babies aged between five and eight months old were kept alive in warm temperatures and nourished with drops of milk

Background imageTemperatures Collection: A City on Saturn

A City on Saturn
The spider-like inhabitants of Saturn build their cities in volcanic craters, not only for protection but to benefit from the warm temperatures

Background imageTemperatures Collection: A City on Io

A City on Io
Temperatures are low on Io, a moon of Jupiter, and its people must wrap up well : their cities are built entirely of crystal, which doesn t make life any cosier

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Cholera in Egypt

Cholera in Egypt
Scene in the courtyard of a house in Cairo. The patients were laid in the courtyard partly because of the cooler temperatures and also because the occupants were afraid of infection

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Pictet / Gas Experiment

Pictet / Gas Experiment
Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist, conducts an experiment to liquefy and solidify hydrogen gas, and studied properties of substances at low temperatures

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Russia / 1936 / Prisoners

Russia / 1936 / Prisoners
Political prisoners are confined in brightly lit cells in temperatures of 40 degrees centigrade, and given salt water to drink, so they are driven mad

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Firewalking, Fiji

Firewalking, Fiji
On Bequa Island, Fiji, 12-14 men walk slowly across a fiery pit, sustaining temperatures of 130 degrees Celsius for up to a minute

Background imageTemperatures Collection: Open air baptism in the western USA

Open air baptism in the western USA
In the western USA, Baptists baptise their converts at sub-zero temperatures in the open air, trusting to their faith to keep them warm


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