| FREE THOUGHTS
By The Free Thinker
_-_History Snippets_-_
A collection of historic photos and documents selected for interest
and importance, but also constant variety. Additions made
intermittently from items in the collection of The Free Thinker.
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Nuggets, by D. O. Haynes & Co., mid/late 1890s
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Mid 19th Century Wood Block Prints
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| Suspension bridge over Dordogne River (Saint Andre-de-Cubzac) |
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Photographs of London by Valentine & Sons, 1880s/90s
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| Valentine & Sons - Gopherpedia |
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The Radio Experimenter Magazine Vol. 1 No. 3, Feb. 1924
(Melbourne, Australia)
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| Catalogue of early Australian radio publications and magazines |
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17,000ft. in Light Plane, 25th of May 1931
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| Aircraft history and replica at QLD Air Museum |
| Aircraft history |
| Aircraft later built by the pilot in England - Gopherpedia |
| Pilot's England-Australia flight aboard WWII Halifax bomber |
| Pilot's own account of the England-Australia flight |
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Shell Motor Tours - Victoria, mid 1920s
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A-O-A Hong Kong Night-Life & Shopping, 1971
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Australian Commonwealth Celebrations Sydney, January 1901
Stereoscopic Slides
Original slides for stereoscope |
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Converted to anaglyphs for viewing with Red/Blue glasses
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| Federation of Australia - Gopherpedia |
| Regular Photograph of procession (Ceres Arch) |
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Original film of the Inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia: |
| Clip 1, Procession - NFSA |
| Clip 2, Signing In Ceremony - NFSA |
| Inauguration of the Commonwealth documentary - Gopherpedia |
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Geological Survey of Victoria
Mines of the Bright, Wandiligong, and Freeburgh Gold-Field
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| Geological Survey of Victoria - Gopherpedia |
| Victorian gold rush - Gopherpedia |
| 150 Years of the Geological Survey of Victoria |
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Radio, Television & Hobbies magazine, May 1959
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| Electronics Australia (formerly R,TV&H) - Gopherpedia |
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| Nuvistor - Gopherpedia |
| Nuvistor Valves - The National Valve Museum |
| Nuvistor, Vacuum's Last Gasp - HackADay |
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Wartime Motoring, 1940s
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| Willys MB - Gopherpedia |
| Alaska Highway - Gopherpedia |
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Ash Wednesday, 1983
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| Ash Wednesday bushfires - Gopherpedia |
| Black Friday bushfires Bushfires - Gopherpedia |
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Paillard-Bolex 16mm Model H Cameras Manual, 1950s/60s
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| My photos of a Bolex H16 |
| Bolex - Gopherpedia |
| Bolex Collector |
| Bolex H16 User |
| Earlier Bolex H8 and H16 manual (1.3MB PDF) |
| Later Bolex H16 manual (30MB PDF) |
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WWII Hand-Drawn Japanese Military Ordnance Diagrams
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| Type 98 20 mm AA machine cannon - Gopherpedia |
| Japanese Type 100 20mm Cannon Rounds - Inert-Ord.Net |
| Japanese Type 88 Large Artillery Fuze - Inert-Ord.Net |
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Victorian Railways - Century of Service, The Sun 13th Sep. 1954
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| Victorian Railways - Gopherpedia |
| Network maps and station histories |
| Victorian Railways Timeline |
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American Telegraph Equipment, 1890
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From Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph by Frank L. Pope,
1890
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| Franklin Leonard Pope - Gopherpedia |
| Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1891 - Internet Archive |
| Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1881 in HTML |
| Frank L. Pope Telegraphic and Electrical Engineer |
| Franklin L. Pope's GALLERY OF THE TELEGRAPH |
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Moving the Lara Hotel (Victoria, Australia), 1915
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| Lara - Gopherpedia |
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RAAF WWII Photographs (probably at a UK airbase)
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| A66 Avro Lancaster - RAAF Museum |
| Avro Lancaster - Gopherpedia |
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Nuclear Reactors in the UK and France, 1960s
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| Sellafield (Windscale and Calder Works) - Gopherpedia |
| Sellafield awaits nuclear power's rebirth - BBC News, 2006 |
| Windscale Accident 1957 |
| Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster, documentary (YouTube) |
| Equinox: A Very British Bomb, documentary (YouTube) |
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| Dungeness nuclear power station - Gopherpedia |
| A history of Dungeness nuclear power station - BBC Kent, 2010 |
| Dungeness: How Visiting a Nuclear Power Station is a Great Day Out? |
| Dungeness B power station - EDF Energy |
| Dungeness A Flickr Album |
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| Chapelcross nuclear power station - Gopherpedia |
| Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station - Secret Scotland |
| Chapelcross Fire 1967 - Cold War Scotland |
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| Chinon Nuclear Power Plant - Gopherpedia |
| Nuclear Museum of Chinon |
| chinon-b1 Nuclear Power Plant History |
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| Saclay Nuclear Research Centre - Gopherpedia |
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Australian Army Portable Sawmill Plans, April 1969
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| Article about an unrelated portable sawmill in military use |
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Power Stations in Victoria, Australia, 1940s
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| Yallourn Power Station - Gopherpedia |
| Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme - Gopherpedia |
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Motorola IC Databooks, mid-late 1980s
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| Motorola - Gopherpedia |
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Cutty Sark and Worcester, early 1940s
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| Cutty Sark - Gopherpedia |
| HMS Frederick William (Worcester) - Gopherpedia |
| Thames Nautical Training College - Gopherpedia |
| Worcester II - Association of Old Worcesters' |
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SALT - Australian Army Magazine, 21st of May 1945
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Zulu Movie Poster, 1964
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| Other Zulu posters |
| Zulu (1964) - IMDB |
| Zulu (1964 film) - Gopherpedia |
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Coronation of Elizabeth II, 1953
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Austrlian Woman's Weekly feature |
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| Coronation of Elizabeth II - Gopherpedia |
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Apollo Bay Tourist Brochure, approx. 1940s/50s
"Where Nature displays Her Versatility"
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| 2019 photo by Grace Tarbuck, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International |
| Apollo Bay - Gopherpedia |
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Cessna Super Skymaster Service Manual, 1968
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| Photo by bomberpilot, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic |
| Cessna Skymaster - Gopherpedia |
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Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1900
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| Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Gopherpedia |
| Kitchener: The most famous pointing finger (WWI poster) |
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Statistics for the Railway Network of Victoria, Australia, 1936-37
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| Rail transport in Victoria - Gopherpedia |
| Network maps and station histories |
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The Australasian Radio World, Oct 1939
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| Magazine history and PDFs |
| Standard Telephones and Cables - Gopherpedia |
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R34 Airship, 1919
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| R34 (Airship) - Gopherpedia |
| R34 - The Record Breaker |
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Main Street of Broome, Western Australia. 1954.
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| 2018 Photo by Gnangarra, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia |
| Broome, Western Australia - Gopherpedia |
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