Explosion Collection (page 10)

Battle of Marengo, 14 June, 1800. The supremely talented General Louis Desaix had heard the cannons firing and had turned around his divisions and marched to the sound of the guns

Attempt to assassinate Napoleon, 24 December, 1800. The most serious - and very nearly successful - attempt on his life took place on Christmas Eve in 1800 when a massive bomb exploded near his

The Infernal Machine, 24 December 1800, (19th century?). The most serious - and very nearly successful - attempt on Napoleon Bonapartes (1769-1821)

Pirates Attacking a British Navy Ship, 17th century. Artist: Willem van de Velde the Younger
Pirates Attacking a British Navy Ship, 17th century

Coal mining disaster, Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, Yorkshire, December 1866. 350 people were killed in the disaster including a number who perished in the second

Using gunpowder in a stone quarry, 1867. Quarry worker tamping down a gunpowder charge before setting and lighting a fuse to blast away a section of rock

Guillaume Francois Rouelle, 18th century French chemist, 1874. Antoine Lavoisiers teacher and Professor (demonstrateur) at the Jardin du Roi, Paris

Cameramen under fire while filming in the First Balkan War, 1912. By 1912 cinemas were showing newsreels and war reporters were being accompanied by camera teams

Preparing and setting a Dynamite charge, Paris, 1890. From La Science Illustree

Cartridge from Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Ayrshire, 1884. Cartridge packed with Dynamite made at the factory. From The Illustrated London News, 16 April 1884

Workers at Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Ayrshire, 1884. Top: Mixing house, with women rubbing Dynamite. Bottom: Woman filling cartridges with Dynamite using a filling machine

Members of the French air corps on bomb practice at Chalons, 1912
Members of the French air corps on bomb practice at Chalons. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 14 April 1912

Berthold Schwart, 14th century German Franciscan monk and alchemist, 1901. Schwart (fl 1320) is supposed to be the first European to discover gunpowder. Illustration from Le Petit Journal, Paris, 1901

Remnant of Supernova 1987A. Photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Supernovae are massive stellar explosions which throw the outer layers of a star off into space

Miners blasting, 1879. The men are sheltering behind rocks as the dynamite charge they have set is detonated. (Paris, 1879)

Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885. Workers in underground galleries putting cartridges of dynamite into position in preparation for the blowing up Flood Rock

Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885, (1886). Engraving made the year after the explosion. The rock was part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour

Chemical lecture, 1802. Artist: James Gillray
Chemical lecture; Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or - an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air!, 1802

To the Victors!, World War I, 1917-1918. British troops man-handling a captured German Field Gun as they remove it from its position

French lst Infantry Corps crossing of the Yser Canal, World War I, 4. 45 am, 31 July 1917
French lst Infantry Corps crossing of the Yser Canal, World War I, 4.45 am, 31 July 1917. After a painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923)

Siege of Arras, under Louis XIII, Thirty Years War, 1640 (late 19th / early 20th century). Artist: Francois Flameng
Siege of Arras, under Louis XIII, Thirty Years War, 1640 (late 19th/early 20th century). Arras was taken by the French from the defending Spanish on 10 August

Japanese naval squadron steaming to bombard Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. The Russo-Japanese War arose due to the two countries conflicting territorial ambitions in East Asia

Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, American Civil War, 1862 (1864). The Battle of Hampton Roads, Virginia, which was fought on 8-9 March 1862

Storming of Badajoz, Spain, Peninsular War, 6 April 1812. British troops under the command of Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) capturing Badajoz from the French

150-megaton thermonuclear explosion, Bikini Atoll, 1 March 1954.The unexpected spread of fallout from the test led to awareness of, and research into, radioactive pollution. Courtesy UNO

Naval battle on the Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, American Civil War, July 1862. The destruction of the Confederate flotilla by armoured Union gunboats

Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798. The British fleet under Nelson destroyed the French fleet in Aboukir Bay in a battle fought at night

Battlecruiser HMS Lion coming into action, Battle of Jutland 31 May - 1 June 1916. Jutland (also called Battle of the Skagerrak)

Explosion at the police station on the Rue des Bons-Enfants, Paris, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Explosion at the police station on the Rue des Bons-Enfants, Paris, 1892. On 8 November 1892, an anarchist named Emile Henry deposited a bomb at the offices of the Carmaux Mining Company in Paris

A firedamp explosion, France, 1892. Artist: F Meaulle
A firedamp explosion in a French coal mine, France, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 2nd April 1892

Bomb explosion in the Liceo Theatre, Barcelona, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 25th November 1893

Battle of Marengo, 13 June, 1800. Artist: Francois Georgin
Battle of Marengo, 13 June, 1800. General Louis Desaix (1768-1800) heard the cannons firing, turned around his divisions and marched to the sound of the guns

The Battle of the Nile, August 1798, (1800). Artist: J Philippe de Loutherbough
The Battle of the Nile, August 1798, (1800). The battle was fought at night in the Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria. Admiral Lord Nelson found the French fleet at anchor and attacked

Le caporal de la legion, 1916. Artist: Guillaume Apollinaire
Le caporal de la legion, 1916. The Corporal of the Legion. From a private collection

Russian cruiser under fire, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
Russian cruiser Varyag receiving her death-blows from the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Chemulpo, Russo-Japanese War, February 1904

Japanese torpedo boats making surprise attack, Russo-Japanese War, 1904
Opening of hostilities. Japanese torpedo boats making surprise attack on Port Arthur, 8 February 1904, Russo-Japanese War 1904-5. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 21 February 1904

Russian ship sunk by Japanese torpedo, Russo-Japanese War, 1904
Russian ironclad Petropavlosk sunk by Japanese torpedo with loss of 600 lives, including Admiral Makharoff, 13 April 1904. Russo-Japanese War 1904-5. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 24 April 1904

Japanese field battery in action, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Japanese field battery in action during the attack on Port Arthur, August 1904

The guns of a Japanese battleship, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. The Russian vessel Tsarevich trained on the Japanese Mikasa

The Dynamite Skunk, 1884. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Dynamite Skunk, 1884. John Bull shouts across the water at America. There had been a number of explosions in London in recent months

Grand Burns Festival. - Brown Entertains his Friend wi a Haggis!, 1859. Artist: John Leech
Grand Burns Festival. - Brown Entertains his Friend wi a Haggis!, 1859. On 25th January 1859, the centenary of the birth of Robert Burns was celebrated with a Grand Burns Festival at Crystal Palace

The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations at the Opening of the Great Suspension Bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the Evening of May 24, 1883

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