Napoleon III, c 1859.

'Victor Hugo', c 1870.

'Le Fleselles' hot-air balloon, January 1784.

Page from the Schneider Trophy contest progamme, 1929.

Printing telegraph used to send the first submarine telegraph mesage, 1851.

'Johnson's Pedestrian Hobby Horse Riding School', 1819.

Soldier and his wife, 1914-1918.

Proclamation banning absinthe, 1915.

Madame Louise Georgina Daguerre, c 1845.

Two British soldiers, 1914-1918.

Amherst Villiers advertisement, Schneider Trophy programme, 1931.

Cutaway view of the V-1 'Flying Bomb', 1944-1945.