Launching a paravane from the battleship HMS Rodney Size:L: 75 x 50cm Plate 8 from the paper

Plate 8 from the paper 'On the passage of the ovum from the ovaria to the uterus in women' by Everard Home

Although the risks to the children had been notified

'Passer nivalis'

and archaeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939) at the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun

Launching a paravane from the battleship HMS Rodney Size:L: 75 x 50cm Plate 8 from the paperLaunching a paravane from the battleship HMS 'Rodney', 1937. Invented by Charles Dennistoun Burney, the paravane was designed as a countermeasure against enemy naval mines. An anti submarine version was also developed. Cigarette card from The Navy series, produced by Senior Service Cigarettes, 1937.