Explosive Collection

Blowing up the Eastern Arch of the Great Exhibition Building, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Blowing up the Eastern Arch of the Great Exhibition Building, [South Kensington, London], 1864. Demolition of an '...arch which supported the eastern gable end of the nave of the International

Ruins of the Great Exhibition Building of 1862, (1864). Creator: Unknown
Ruins of the Great Exhibition Building of 1862, [London], (1864). Engraving from a sketch '...looking in an easterly direction along the Cromwell-road...The grand central entrance appears in

Scene of the fire at Dockhead, Bermondsey, sketched on Saturday morning, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Scene of the fire at Dockhead, Bermondsey, [London], sketched on Saturday morning, 1864. 'a great fire broke out in the waterside premises of Messrs

Explosion on board the barque Lottie Sleigh, laden with gunpowder, in the Mersey..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
Explosion on board the barque Lottie Sleigh, laden with gunpowder, in the Mersey, as seen from the Cheshire side, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Wood

The War in Denmark: ruins of the Langaa Railway Bridge, in Jutland, lately destroyed by..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Denmark: ruins of the Langaa Railway Bridge, in Jutland, lately destroyed by the Prussians, 1864. 'The most uncivilised thing the Prussians have done in Jutland is the blowing up of

The Blowing Up of the Vanguard Rock at Plymouth on Friday, the 5th November, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Blowing Up of the Vanguard Rock at Plymouth on Friday, the 5th November - from a sketch by Major Bredin, R.A. 1858. Displacement of...the rock at the entrance of the Devonport harbour...One of

A Journey into the Herzegovina: Fire at a Gunpowder Depot at Grahovo, 1876. Creator: C.R
A Journey into the Herzegovina: Fire at a Gunpowder Depot at Grahovo, 1876. It is reported from Constantinople that the new Government of Sultan Mourad V. will allow an armistice of six weeks

Holyhead Harbour Works...the Face of the Mountain after the Grand Blasting Operations... 1857. Creator: Unknown
Holyhead Harbour Works - View of the Face of the Mountain after the Grand Blasting Operations, Jan. 16, 1857: the Quantity of Quartz Rock Displaced 120, 000 Tons, by a Charge of 16

Jan van Speijk lights the gunpowder fuse, 5 February 1831, (1831-1850). Creator: Jacobus Schoemaker Doyer
Jan van Speijk lights the gunpowder fuse, 5 February 1831, (1831-1850). Dutch naval lieutenant commander with the United Netherlands Navy who became a hero in the Netherlands for his opposition to

Destruction of the Docks, Sebastopol - from a sketch by J. A. Crowe, 1856. Creator: J. A. Crowe
Destruction of the Docks, Sebastopol - from a sketch by J. A. Crowe, 1856. Crimean War. It was the intention of our engineers to blow in a portion of the English half of the docks...the charges in

Chinese Infernal Machines, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Chinese Infernal Machines, 1857....floated down at night with the view to blow the ship [H.M.S. Encounter] up...a sampan, towed by a canoe...The fuze was lighted in the bamboo tubes in the side...Two

Results of the Great Blasting Operation at Holyhead, North Wales, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Results of the Great Blasting Operation at Holyhead, North Wales, 1856. Building a new harbour and breakwater....in the lower quarries of the mountain a most stupendous

Sébastopol, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Sebastopol, 19th century

La surveillance de la mer; Les Allemands ont deja seme, dans la mer du Nord, des mines, 1914. Creator: Henri Rudaux
'La surveillance de la mer; Les Allemands ont deja seme, dans la mer du Nord, des mines flottants fort dangereuses pour le securite des transports, 1914

Blowing Up the Cashmere Gate, (1902). Creator: Unknown
Blowing Up the Cashmere Gate, (1902). Scene from the Great Sepoy Rebellion (also known as the Indian Mutiny), 14 September 1857

Reconnoitring at Cronstadt, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Reconnoitring at Cronstadt, 1854. Crimean War. Fort Peter I.; Fort Alexander; Fort Menschikoff; "Bulldog"; "Phlegethon"

The Great Explosion at Seaford - the Explosion - Cliff Falling, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Explosion at Seaford - the Explosion - Cliff Falling, 1850. Long shore drift at Seaford in Sussex was causing deposition of debris to such an extent that Seaford Bay

The Great Explosion at Seaford - the Cliff, after the Explosion, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Explosion at Seaford - the Cliff, after the Explosion, 1850. Long shore drift at Seaford in Sussex was causing deposition of debris to such an extent that Seaford Bay

The Great Explosion at Seaford - Seaford Bay and Cliff, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Explosion at Seaford - Seaford Bay and Cliff, 1850. Long shore drift at Seaford in Sussex was causing deposition of debris to such an extent that Seaford Bay

In mid air A wonderful blast in building railroad to Deadwood, 1890. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
In mid air A wonderful blast in building railroad to Deadwood, 1890. Black cloud from explosive blast on side of mountain

Blasting the Granite Rock, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Blasting the Granite Rock, 1857. One of the vast natural depots is the granite quarries at Rubislaw (pronounced Robsley), within a mile of Aberdeen [in Scotland]...The area already worked is several

Supposed case of a steamer pursued by an enemy, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Supposed case of a steamer pursued by an enemy, 1844. Testing explosives designed by Captain Warner, demonstrating:the effect produced by a line-of-battle ship following in her wake

Novel experiments in warfare - hut destroyed by a shell, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Novel experiments in warfare - hut destroyed by a shell, 1844. Display of explosives in the grounds of Mulgrave House, Fulham [in west London]

Novel experiments in warfare - shower of hand-rockets, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Novel experiments in warfare - shower of hand-rockets, 1844. Spectators at a...series of experiments...in the grounds of Mulgrave House

Leger. Joseph. 16 ans, ne a Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhone). Jardinier. Fabrication d engins explosifs. 4/7/94. 1894

View of the Tunnel of the Harlem Railroad, ca. 1837. Creator: Nicolino Calyo
View of the Tunnel of the Harlem Railroad, ca.1837

An H. E. shell exploding, First World War, 1914-1918, (1933). Creator: Unknown
An H.E. shell exploding, First World War, 1914-1918, (1933). Battlefield scene, capturing the blast from a high-explosive shell on the front line. From " The Pageant of the Century"

Entrance to a Sap along the French Front, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Entrance to a Sap along the French Front, First World War, 1915, (c1920). The mine subsequently exploded in this sap killed a great number of Germans

Rope Screen Used For Protection While Pressing Explosive Gun-Cotton, 1901. Creator: Unknown
This Rope Screen Is Used For Protection While Pressing The Explosive Gun-Cotton At The Cordite Works, 1901. From " The Harmsworth Magazine, Volume VI

Taking a submarine mine out of stores, 1914. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War - 1914, Vol. I.. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1914]

Fitting up an Electric Contact Mine, 1914. A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines

Filling a shell with nitro-glycerine, oil field in Pennsylvania, USA, early 20th century(?). Preparatory to shooting the well. Stereoscopic card. Detail

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

Colonel Vivian Dering Majendie, Chief Inspector of Explosives, 1892. Artist: Spy
Colonel Vivian Dering Majendie, Chief Inspector of Explosives, 1892. Majendie (1836-1898), British soldier, served with the Royal Artillery at Sebastopol during the Crimean War and at Lucknow

Christian Friedrich Schonbein, German chemist, c1898. Schonbein (1799-1869) began his investigation of ozone in 1839. He worked on nitrocellulose and produced gunoctton for use in firearms in 1846

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

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

Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and inventor. In 1866 Swedish chemist and industrialist Nobel (1833-1896) invented a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerine he called dynamite

Death. Allegorical print of war after the German painter and engraver Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550). In front of a baggage wagon loaded with sappers tools including barrels of explosives

Siege warfare, c1800. The normal method of applying a petard (explosive device) to the gate of a fortress. The fuse has just been lit

Charles Babbages proposed design for a diving bell, 1855. English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed this diving bell to be used by divers placing charges to blow up wrecks

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902). English chemist and inventor, 1893
Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor, 1893. Together with James Dewar, Abel invented the explosive cordite. He also devised a new method for manufacturing gun-cotton

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

Alfred Berhard Nobel, c1880s
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, c1880s. In 1866 Swedish chemist and industrialist Nobel invented a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin he called dynamite

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