Sorry I'm a bit late mentioning this, but the Bundle of Holding site ( Read more... )

...was a bound volume of The Boy's Own Paper covering October 1893 - September 1894, about 800 large pages with a lot of illustrations, for £3.00 ( Read more... )

In a comment on my last post i_kender pointed out that the British Library has put a shedload of illustrations from books on line for free use, as a huge flickr set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

For example, one of the first I found was a larger version of this:

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A look at transatlantic cables from 1897, including pictures of the "telegraphic alphabet", punched tape messages, equipment used to lay cables and receive messages, etc. etc ( Read more... )

A visit to the Yerkes observatory in 1897 - The Greatest Telescope on Earth by Walter George Bell ( Read more... )

Another illustrated article from Pearson's Magazine - The Gentle Art of Killing, from February 1897. A "light-hearted" history of rifles, with some interesting predictions of their future ( Read more... )

Someone pointed me at this 1896 article by George Griffith, with illustrations by Fred T. Jane (of Jane's Fighting Ships fame), which I somehow managed to miss when I checked the first volume of Pearson's Magazine for scientific romances. The reason probably being that it isn't so much a scientific romance as a "prediction" of military technology. ( Read more... )

Queen Victoria's diaries have been put on line - all 40,000+ pages of them ( Read more... )

Since Livejournal has given me a metric sh*tload more storage space for the permanent account I'm having another try at uploading pictures to the Gallery thing. Hopefully these will be better than my previous attempt to post the pictures - these are 150 DPI scans reduced to 75 DPI, and look a lot clearer than the reduced version Photobucket gave me ( Read more... )

I've found another picture in the Guesses at Futurity sequence published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1894-5. I'd missed it before because it's by another artist, Francis Masey, not Fred T. Jane who drew the rest, and they were indexed separately ( Read more... )