EditorialMurder of the de Witt brothers, Silver Medal. Front: bust of the de Witt brothers within a circular design. Reverse: two ships that crash on rocks in a heavy storm within a circle., The Hague, Cornelis de Witt, Johan de Witt, anonymous, Netherlands, 16...
EditorialNegative - Wycheproof District, Victoria, 1927, A plane crash in a dam near Wycheproof. The aircraft is a Curtiss JN-4D 'Jenny' G-AUEV which was first registered in July 1925. This accident occurred in November 1927.
EditorialPhotograph - Oblique Front View of Basil Watson's Biplane on the Rear Lawn Outside 'Foilacleugh', Elsternwick, Victoria, 1916, Part of a commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil Watson in const...
EditorialPhotograph - Fuselage of Basil Watson's Partially Constructed Biplane in the Family Home, Elsternwick, Victoria, 1916, Part of a commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil Watson in constructing ...
EditorialPhotograph - Oblique Left Rear View of Basil Watson's Biplane on the Rear Lawn Outside 'Foilacleugh', Elsternwick, Victoria, 1916, Part of a commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil Watson in c...
EditorialNegative - Wycheproof District, Victoria, 1927, A GMC motor truck pulling a Curtiss JN-4D 'Jenny' plane (G-AUEV) from a dam following a crash near Wycheproof, Victoria. This accident took place in November 1927.
EditorialGreen fallen into the sea, Charles Green (1785-1870) after a crash with the hot-air balloon on the sea, Signed: Adrien Marie, Fig. 4, p. 21, Marie, Adrien (sc.), 1870, James Glaisher; Camille Flammarion; Wilfrid de Fonvielle; Gaston Tissandier: Voyages...
EditorialMurder of the de Witt brothers, Silver Medal. Obverse: bust of two men within an inscription. Reverse: two ships that crash on rocks in a heavy storm within a circle, editors., The Hague, Cornelis de Witt, Johan de Witt, anonymous, Netherlands, 1672, s...
EditorialMurder of the de Witt brothers, Silver Medal. Obverse: bust of two men within an inscription. Reverse: two ships that crash on rocks in a heavy storm within a circle, The Hague, Cornelis de Witt, Johan de Witt, anonymous, Netherlands, 1672, silver (met...
EditorialTo his royal highness Fredrick Duke of York, this plate of Satan holding th prepondrence of power or Bounaparte's threat, is most humbly inscribed, by E. Sanders, engraving 1803, Satan holding a balance to which, on one end is attached a hot-air balloo...
EditorialPhotograph - Inspecting the Wreckage From Basil Watson's Fatal Aircraft Accident, Point Cook, Victoria, 28 Mar 1917, Part of a commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil Watson in constructing a ...
EditorialPhotograph Album - Commemorating Basil Watson, Aviation Pioneer, Killed in a Flying Accident, Point Cook, Victoria, 28 Mar 1917, Commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil Watson in constructing ...
EditorialPhotograph - Basil Watson Seated in his Completed Biplane Outside the Family Home, 'Foilacleugh', Elsternwick, Victoria, 1916, Part of a commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil Watson in const...
EditorialPhotograph - Front View of Basil Watson's Biplane on the Rear Lawn Outside 'Foilacleugh', Elsternwick, Victoria, 1916, Part of a commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil Watson in constructing ...
EditorialPhotograph - Partially Constructed Wing, Fuselage & Engine Cowling of Basil Watson's Biplane in the Family Home, Elsternwick, Victoria, 1916, Part of a commemorative photograph album produced by Sears' Studios, Melbourne, documenting the work of Basil ...
EditorialJohnny and a Lady crash a gig in a herd of swine. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by W. Read after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Alfred Burton's The Adventures of Johnny Newcombe in the Navy, Simpkin, London, 1818.
EditorialJohnny thrown out of a sedan chair when the porters crash over a pile of stones in the street. Night Watchmen with lanterns and rattles arrive. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genu...
EditorialAscent of Garnerin and E.H. Locker from Lord's cricket ground. July 5, 1802. André-Jacques Garnerin made his second English balloon ascent with Edward Hawke Locker on 5 July 1802 from Lord's Cricket Ground, travelling the 17 miles (27.4 km) from ther...
EditorialRama breaks Siva's bow. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Rama is able to lift the bow easily with one hand and, as if in sport, prepares it and draws it. Upon his bending the bow, it breaks in two with a sound resembling the crash of thunder or the...
EditorialAscent of Garnerin and E.H. Locker from Lord's cricket ground. July 5, 1802. André-Jacques Garnerin made his second English balloon ascent with Edward Hawke Locker on 5 July 1802 from Lord's Cricket Ground, travelling the 17 miles (27.4 km) from ther...
EditorialThe first martyr of the age of age of flight'. Eugene Lefebvre at the time of his marvellous flights at Rheims'. He is shown standing to the left and flying in his Wright biplane'. Eugène Lefebvre (1878- 7 September 1909) was a French aviation pionee...
EditorialCharles Dickens relieving the sufferers at the fatal railway accident, near Staplehurst'. The Staplehurst rail crash was a derailment at Staplehurst, Kent on 9 June 1865 at 3:13 pm. The South Eastern Railway Folkestone to London boat train derailed whi...
EditorialJohnny and a Lady crash a gig in a herd of swine. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by W. Read after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Alfred Burton's The Adventures of Johnny Newcombe in the Navy, Simpkin, London, 1818.
EditorialJohnny thrown out of a sedan chair when the porters crash over a pile of stones in the street. Night Watchmen with lanterns and rattles arrive. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genu...
EditorialTo his royal highness Fredrick Duke of York, this plate of Satan holding th prepondrence of power or Bounaparte's threat, is most humbly inscribed, by E. Sanders, engraving 1803, Satan holding a balance to which, on one end is attached a hot-air balloo...
EditorialDeaths of Pilatre de Rozier and Pierre Romain in a balloon crash near Boulogne, June 1785. Woodblock engraving by H. Rousseau after Lara from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), Furne, Jouvet et...
EditorialCatastrophic crash landing of Felix Nadar's balloon "le Geant" near Hanover, 1863. Woodblock engraving from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Paris, 1868.
EditorialTo his royal highness Fredrick Duke of York, this plate of Satan holding th prepondrence of power or Bounaparte's threat, is most humbly inscribed, by E. Sanders, engraving 1803, Satan holding a balance to which, on one end is attached a hot-air balloo...