Make Gallery

Canberra: the swimming-pool

Colour illustration depicting the swimming pool of P&O's super-liner Canberra'. Designed by architects Casson and Rendle, the pool was of white mosaic and set within tiers of sunbathing terraces. The teak flooring continued into the Abolido Club. The internal design of Canberra, who would make voyages to Australia, marked a new era of ocean travel. It was the biggest ship to be built by Harland & Wolff shipyard since White Star's Britannic in 1914

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A robot to open an exhibition: the new mechanical man

Photograph and sketches of an aluminium man, the first British robot invented by Captain Richards and Mr. A.H. Refell. The machine could rise, bow and make a speech. Concealed in his body was an electric motor and a system of pulleys and cables. His first duty was to open a model engineering exhibition

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Mr and Mrs Salvador Dali

The surrealist artist, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) and his wife, Gala. At the time he was working on his book The Secret Life of Salvador Dali'. When asked about the presence of the statue, he said, Just to make people ask questions

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