RMG3BAYG–French inventor Freminet's 'Machine Hydrostatique' incorporates something like a modern diving suit combined with an air tank. Date: 1772
RM2M3P83H–Officers and men of the British submarine service being trained in use of the Davis submarine escape apparatus: A water-filled tank with a dummy submarine compartment and the new canvas air lock.
RM2RGDK5Y–Awaiting the order to advance, with some of its crew outside for a breath of air. Tanks were first introduced into battle on the 15th September 1916 when a D1 tank was guided into action by Captain H. W. Mortimore at Delville Wood.
RM2M3P56Y–The technique of a Nazi offensive: air and tank attacks combined. A Blitzkrieg attack: swarms of low-flying bombers and heavy tanks opening the way for light tanks to pass through, while infantry and artillery follow swiftly behind. Date: 1940
RM2M3K7HT–Awaiting the order to advance, with some of its crew outside for a breath of air. Tanks were first introduced into battle on the 15th September 1916 when a D1 tank was guided into action by Captain H. W. Mortimore at Delville Wood. Date: 1st December 1917
RM2M3JY73–Illustrations of a Thermostatic Nurse, an invention by Mr Hearson. The tank was separated into two compartments; in the lower, a shallow tank of water was used to moisten and heat the air. The incubator worked with oil or gas and cost œ6 for one infant and œ10 for a double tank for two infants.
RM2RGBA8D–United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-16D Block 42H Fighting Falcon 89-2175 (msn 1C-338, base code 'LF'), of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Wing, at Luke air Force Base on 14 December 1996. (Crashed when it ran out of fuel over White Tank Range near Luke AFB on 26 April 1999:- The LH main u/c collapsed on landing, but the aircraft got back into the air. With no fuel left for another approach, the crew headed to White Tank and ejected.)
RM2M3NHG3–British Home Front are using a makeshift contraption to pinch a screwdriver making it impossible for the Germans to assemble an air-borne tank. Date: 1940
RM2M99XP9–6 WC tank engine by Richard Trevithick. 1st trial air diagram.
RM2M99XR9–6 WC tank engine by Richard Trevithick. 3rd trial air diagram.
RM2M99XRK–'6 WC tank engine by Richard Trevithick. 4th trial air and steam diagram.
RM2M3P5DF–Transporting tanks by air during the Second World War: rapid supplies for battling armies. Date: 1942
RM2M3P662–Big guns with wings: the artillery of the air grows heavier and more powerful year by year. The variety of shells and bullets in use by aircraft during the Second World War.
RM2M3P5CC–Increasing aircraft range: auxiliary fuel tanks fitted to fighters and bombers, essential to long-range air attacks during the Second World War. Date: 1942
RM2M3P5RC–How British science and ingenuity contributed to the defeat of the Germans at sea, on land, and in the air. A few of the many weapons, devices and tactics, both offensive and defensive, used against the enemy during the Second World War.
RM2M3K9HX–The pilot of a British aeroplane damaged during a forced landing in a crater zone is assisted by the salvage crew and given first aid to his arm, wounded in the crash. Assistance has also arrived in the form of the crew of a passing tank sporting multi-coloured camouflage. All face a race against time to save the aeroplane before the observers in the German aeroplanes above report the location. Date: 1917
RMG3BAXD–Diving Suit circa 1875
RM2M3PF4H–A wartime cartoon by William Heath Robinson showing two tanks charging into battle, only to crash head on, fly conjoined into the air and fall to earth, shattered into pieces. Date: 1917
RM2RG8WWT–American advert for McCray Refrigerators - Snow White Opal Glass. Food compartments with run an electric motor with nickel-plated trimmings lined with white opal glass and a continuous circulation of cold dry air.
RM2M3NH1B–A view of the open air swimming pool in Endell Street, Holborn, London, on the site of Holborn Borough Council's Public Swimming bath which was pulled down in 1938 in preparation for the building of a more modern bath. Reconstruction was prevented by the outbreak of war and the cavity of the old Bath became a static water tank to aid fire-fighting during the blitz in London. The wartime decontamination centre, seen behind the pool surmounted by the Borough's Coat of Arms, provided dressing accommodation for 200 persons an hour. Now part of the Oasis Sports Centre. Date: 1946
RMA675Y0–Freminets Machine
RM2M3T0B9–Scene from the final phases of the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing a British anti-tank post at the Menin Gate, a burning lorry with billowing black smoke in a Dunkirk street after an intensive German air attack, black smoke in Dunkirk harbour, a deserted street in Ypres, the empty Place Jean Bart in the centre of Dunkirk, and a Dunkirk street with smoke and rubble after enemy bombardment. Date: 1940
RMG3BX44–WW1 - Whippet Tanks with air support - Western Front
RM2M3T1WF–Firefighters wearing new breathing apparatus to protect them from inhaling fumes, lasting twenty minutes. Date: 1907
RM2M3PB9G–Army tanks in battle with planes overhead. Date: 1940
RM2M3P54H–The technique of the Lightning War as it might be employed by one of the Axis powers during the Second World War to crush a weaker neighbour in a swift campaign. The progress of the attack, from the sudden invasion to the final breakthrough, shown schematically, with successive phases of the operation. Date: 1939
RM2M3P52E–Our most frequent Nazi visitor, and the RAF's commonest victim. Secrets of Germany's latest type Heinkel 111K Mark V bomber. Strength and weakness of the German Heinkel 111K bomber, which has 'suitcase' petrol tanks, but is badly defended; and searchlight tactics against it. A fighter pilot's guide to the latest type of Heinkel 111K bomber, used by the German Luftwaffe in great numbers during the Second World War. Although now armoured, it still has many defensive weaknesses. Date: 1940
RM2RGA8E6–Vintage World War II photograph - range of bombs ordnance dropped by bombers of the RAF
RMA1FC80–British Bomber Booklet
RMA1FC7B–Us Bomber Over France
RMA1FC79–Firemen Hose Church
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