Launching a paravane from the battleship HMS Rodney Size:L: 75 x 50cm 8th January 1960

8th January 1960

Total length of the bridge 750 feet

'Passer nivalis'

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

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 8th January 1960Launching 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.