English Electric Lightning P1A, c 1950s.

English Electric Lightning P1A, c 1950s.

Rotor of Power Jets W2/700 jet engine, 28 October 1945.

Whittle W1 Jet Propulsion Engine, 1941. 3/4

Locomotive fitted with a Metropolitan-Vickers jet engine, c 1950s.

Early steam jet apparatus, 1629.

Whittle jet engine, c 1930s. Sir Frank Whit

Whittle W1 jet propulsion engine at Lutterworth, Leicestershire, 1941.

Presentation of JET 1, the world's first gas-turbine car, 1958.

"The Gloster-Whittle E28/39, c 1941."

Pestles and mortars operated by a steam jet, c 17th century.

Frank Whittle, British inventor of the jet engine, 7 January 1944.