Machine for sampling sea-water at depth Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Scene in the Hanover Square

Scene in the Hanover Square Rooms

He claimed the land speed record on 17th July 1964 at Lake Eyre

and Disraeli on the right in boots with his rods slung across his back

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson on tour for new ideas

Nobby Stiles refereeing a charity match at Oswestry

Machine for sampling sea-water at depth Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Scene in the Hanover SquarePlate 11 from the paper 'On the specific gravity, and the temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline content', by Alexander Marcet, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 161 208. The instrument has twintrapdoors within a weighted brass cylinder. Original: pencil on paper. 1819