Images Dated 23rd January 2007

Sputnik 1 rocket track

Sputnik 1 rocket track. Long exposure photograph of the night sky showing the track of the rocket that carried Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4th, 1957 by the former Soviet Union. The name Sputnik is Russian for travel companion or satellite. The body was made from a highly polished aluminium alloy sphere which measured 58 centimetres in diameter and weighed 83.5 kilograms. It also had four long antennas attached. Sputnik 1 transmitted radio signals back to earth for a period of 21 days. The success of Sputnik 1 prompted the US government to enter the Space Race with the launch of Explorer-1 four months later. Photographed on October 16th, 1957

© DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Death Plaque in the name of Ernest Emmerson

Death Plaque in the name of Ernest Emmerson. There are two Ernest Emmersons listed on Soldiers Died.'They are : 1) 12/1247 Lance Corporal Ernest Emmerson, York and Lancaster Regiment, 12th (Service) (Sheffield) Battalion. Born Scoles, Rotherham. Enlisted Sheffield. KIA France and Flanders 1.7.16. AND2) 2129 Acting Corporal Ernest Emmerson, Norfolk Regiment, 1/5th Battalion (T.F.). Born Dersingham, Norfolk. Enlisted Dersingham. Died Gallipoli 28.8.15. E. Carter Preston

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

CHARLES GEORGE GORDON (1833-1885). English soldier

CHARLES GEORGE GORDON
(1833-1885). English soldier. Too Late! The Mahdi and his men entering Khartoum as Britannia weeps in this English cartoon of 1885 by John Tenniel

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