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Shows exhibition hall with Krupp's gun and people standing around looking at it.

Enraving depicting the Calais Packet rescuing Colonel Brine and Mr. Simmons from the Channel after their unsuccessful attempt to cross from England to France by balloon. Dated 19th Century

Shows a cafe with a crowd of people as well as a stable and building with flag on top.

The Eagle was an airship (dirigible balloon) that crashed in Paris in 1834 upon take off. It proved to be too heavy. The ship was developed by Scotsman Comte de Lennox, who was living in France. 

In the nineteenth century cigarette-making became automated. In this same period, smoking came to be seen as fashionable - for men, not for women.

Demonstration of how electricity works for the London Electrical Society by inventor W.H. Weekes.

Shows a train partially off a bridge near body of water.

Shows a group of men and women in formal wear speaking on the phone.

Shows a train stopped with passengers outside, a snow-capped mountain is in the distance.

Shows men stand in front, one on, train engine.