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Explosions

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  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Two Irishmen in Brighton open a smuggled barrel of what they think is whiskey with a red-hot poker, but it contains gunpowder and explodes. Etching after Cruikshank.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.
  • Human chromosomes in a cancer cell
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    Human chromosomes in a cancer cell

    Paul J.Smith &Rachel Errington
    • Books
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    A system of pyrotechny : comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry : designed for exhibition and for war : in four parts, containing an account of the substances used in fire-works : the instruments, utensils, and manipulations : fire-works for exhibition : and military pyrotechny : adapted to the military and naval officer, the man of science, and the artificer / by James Cutbush.

    Cutbush, James, 1788-1823. | Date: 1825
    • Ephemera

    The sorrowful and weeping lamentation of the wives and orphans of the unhappy men who lost their lives at the tremendous blowing up of the Canal Company's warehouse, et Nottingham.

    | Date: [1818]
    • Books

    The Flixborough disaster : report of the Court of Inquiry / [issued by the] Dept. of Employment.

    | Date: 1975
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    Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: in the aftermath of an explosion in Bulawayo, the injured are cared for in the street. Halftone by Hentschel after C.J. Staniland after C. E. Fripp, 1896.

    Fripp, Charles Edwin, 1854-1906. | Date: 1896 | Reference: 23587i
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