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  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • Dreadful explosion in a pit, 1828
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • Nettuno, Italy: an explosion of black smoke in a field. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Face of a man whose nose had been reconstructed after a gun explosion
  • Face of a man whose nose had been reconstructed after a gun explosion
  • An explosion or excrescence from a central point. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An explosion or excrescence from a central point. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An explosion in a mine: cross-sections. Etching by Bénard after De La Rue.
  • Rescue of people from buildings damaged by explosion in civil defence. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Nettuno, Italy: an explosion of white smoke caused by a smoke bomb. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • A Dutch physician involved in share dealing in the Dutch speculation explosion of 1720. Engraving, 1720.
  • A Dutch physician involved in share dealing in the Dutch speculation explosion of 1720. Engraving, 1720.
  • Si cul tu ne veux exploser, de gel tu dois asperger / Soeurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence - Couvent du Nord.
  • Si cul tu ne veux exploser, de gel tu dois asperger / Soeurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence - Couvent du Nord.
  • Lucknow, India: the Chutter Munzil, showing damage caused by an explosion during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • The controlled explosion of an underwater mine to clear rocks in the East River between Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Wood engraving.
  • Railway carriages of a train representing the year 1880 are hit by an explosion caused by women. Coloured wood engraving by Yves et Barret, 1879.
  • A woman is passing a shop selling oil lamps and is knocked off her feet by the blast of an explosion. Etching by Richard Dighton.
  • The assassination of Alexander II: the place outside the Winter Palace is strewn with corpses and debris of the bomb-explosion, while Alexander emerges alive from his coach. Process print (?).
  • Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: in the aftermath of an explosion in Bulawayo, the injured are cared for in the street. Halftone by Hentschel after C.J. Staniland after C. E. Fripp, 1896.