Images Dated 12th May 2011 (page 2)

Turbinia - steam turbine-powered steamship
Turbinia - the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, Turbinia wasy the fastest ship anywhere in the world at that time

Skull Reconstruction
Frau Erna von Engel Baiersdoef (Vienna Natural History Museum Austria), reconstructs the skull cast of a Rhodesian Prehistoric Man : The almost completed reconstruction. Date: 1930s

Microdensitometer
The Analytical Research Unit, Harwell, is a service for industry to identify and control impurities in industrial materials : Using a microdensitometer and computer Date: 1973

Eton College, Berkshire, England, founded by King Henry VI (whose statue is in the foreground) in 1440. Clock tower and buildings built by Prevost Lupton in 1517. Date: early 16th century

Georgian Windows
Oriel and bay windows on a Georgian town house, 102 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London. Date: circa 1800

Bishop Bonners Cottages
Pargetting c. 1502, on some picturesque thatched cottages, in East Dereham, Norfolk, England, were once the home of BISHOP EDMUND BONNER, who cruelly persecuted Protestants Date: early 16th century

Weatherboard Cottages
A row of interesting old cottages in George St. Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. Date: 1930s

Devonshire Cottages
Lovely old thatched cottages, with their windows flung wide open during a summer heatwave, in the village of Branscombe, between Beer and Sidmouth, Devon, England. Date: 19th century

Romano-Byzantine Mosaic
Romano-Byzantine style mosaics, designed by G. Pippet, in the Church of the Sacred Heart and St. Catherine, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. Date: 1930s

Salamanca University
The extravagant architecture of the front of Salamaca University, Spain, founded in 1218 by Alfonso IX. Date: founded 1218

Sleepless Night
A young woman holding her hand to her forehead during a sleepless night. Date: 1960s

Nuclear Computer 1973
Inspection of nuclear reactor fuel element components at Springfields Laboratories : Close-up of the computerised measurement of the grids. Date: 1973

Spanish Spinners
Spanish women using a spinning wheel, Granada, Spain. Date: 1930s

Costume Jewellery
Making costume jewellery, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

Tattooing the Lips
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of the lips with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Sarajevo Market
Veiled Muslim women at Sarajevo market, Serbia (former Yugoslavia). Date: 1930s

Watercolour Paint Set
A little boy painting a copy of a famous work of art with his watercolour paint set. Date: 1940s

Tattooing an Eyelid
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of eyelids with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Skull Reconstruction
Frau Erna von Engel Baiersdoef (Vienna Natural History Museum Austria), reconstructs the skull cast of an Aurignacian Prehistoric Man. The original skull was found in France. Date: 1930s

Spanish Racial Types
Young women and men of Madrid, Spain, sitting in a carriage, dressed-up in traditional Spanish costumes, for a festival or perhaps a wedding. Date: 1930s

Mineral Analyser
The TELSEC portable non- dispersive X-ray mineral analyser offers a fast method of measuring selected elements in ores, soils, slags, etc. Date: November 1970

Electron Microscope
The EM 300 transmission electron microscope, which is used to study tiny voids or dislocations in materials or very small crystallites, A.E.R.E. Harwell. Date: October 1971

Spanish Women
Spanish peasant women with baskets on their heads, standing in front of a horse and carriage at Santander, Spain. Date: 1930s

Measuring an Earhquake
An initial measurement of a large earthquake being made on a monitor recording at an outstation near Blacknest, near Aldermaston. Date: August 1963

Tattooing an Eyelid
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of eyelids with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Radiochemical Centre
Process boxes for the production of tritium compounds at the Radiochemical Centre, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. Date: December 1964

Skull Reconstruction
Frau Erna von Engel Baiersdoef (Vienna Natural History Museum Austria), reconstructs the skull cast of a Rhodesian Prehistoric Man : The restored skull with soft parts. Date: 1930s

Tattooing the Lips
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of the lips with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Anatomy Lesson
Two boys measuring the height and proportion of another boy during an anatomy lesson. One of the boys chalks down the results of their findings on the blackboard. Date: 1930s

Croatia / Split Harbour
Fishing boats in the historic harbour at Split (Spalatum) Croatia (former Yugoslavia). Date: 1930s

German Navy Signal Room
The interior of a German Navy Signal Room. Date: 1940s

Norman Chancel Arch
The Norman chancel arch in the little church of St. Mary, Kilburn, Yorkshire, England. Date: 12th century

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

Microcircuit Development
A metallurgist examines a microcircuit on the enlarging screen of a microscope at A.W.R.E. Aldermaston. Date: early 1970s

South Wales training college opened, 1848
The opening of South Wales training college at Carmarthen, 1848. Date: 1848

Mont St Michel, Normandy, France (5 / 6)
Mont St Michel, Normandy, France - distant view from L Ilot de Tombelaine Date: circa 1930s

Ecclesbourne, Hastings, East Sussex Date: circa 1910s

Robin Hoods Bay and Ravenscar, North Yorkshire Date: circa 1930s

Low Street - Brotherton - The Railway Bridge
Low Street - Brotherton, North Yorkshire - The Railway Bridge Date: 1914

Bishopthorpe, York, Yorkshire, The Palace Gateway. Situated on the banks of the River Ouse, Bishopthorpe Palace is the official residence of the Archbishop of York. Date: circa 1910

Mont St Michel, Normandy, France (1 / 6)
Mont St Michel, Normandy, France - high tide with a rough sea Date: circa 1930s

Dudley / Georgina 1890
GEORGINA, COUNTESS OF DUDLEY Daughter of Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Bt; married (as 2nd wife) 1st Earl of Dudley in 1865 (he died in 1885) Date: -

Rosebery / Whitehall
COUNTESS OF ROSEBERY British aristocracy - Hannah, only daughter & heiress of Baron Mayer de Rothschild; married 5th Earl of Rosebery in 1878 Date: 1851 - 1890

Mens Picnic on Shore
Four gentlemen picnic on a rocky shore. Date: 1920s

Corset Advert 1922
Advertisement for Royal Worcester and Bon Ton kidfilling corsets (the corsets of style-superiority) Date: 1922

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