EditorialOil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico from the sunken BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States - 11 May 2010
EditorialFederal, state and city officials hold joint press conference on massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States - 04 May 2010
EditorialOne of the workes with Northern Water installing debris booms in Grand Lake, in the Colorado-Big Thompson watershed, on June 16, 2021. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times)
EditorialRubber shares. The Illustrated London News. London, March 5, 1910. A boom against which many may be wrecked: The remarkable dealings in rubber shares'. One of the wildest booms ever experienced in the annals of finance: In the rubber market, at the sto...
EditorialHalf Model of a Pilot Vessel, Half Model (stack model, starboard) of a two-mast flat bottom. Round bow and stern, strong stern, wide rudder with tiller. The sheer runs to both ends, a bar wood, a sword. The rig is detailed with booms for both masts, bo...
EditorialModel of a Coastal Defense Vessel, Block model of the trunk with round wood, incomplete. The smooth-bore vessel has twelve gun ports on the open upper deck, a straight stern and a round stern with vertical stern. Straight rudder with rudder quadrant an...
EditorialModel of a Windlass, Model of a roasting spindle on a floorboard. The drum, suspended between two cheeks, has eight continuous holes for wind booms: the roasting spindle can also be operated with a single wind boom on the starboard cheek, which engages...
EditorialModel of a Windlass, Model of a roasting spindle on a floorboard. The drum, suspended between two cheeks, has no holes for wind booms: the roasting spindle is operated with a single wind boom on the starboard cheek, which engages a gear wheel with a pa...
EditorialModel of a Capstan, Model of a capstan on a wooden floor board, incomplete. The capstan stands on a bronze foot ring with a cable hole on one side. The capstan has a Brown-Hartfield cable holder edge, the holes for five wind trees are made directly abo...
EditorialModel of an Oriental vessel Model of a Cora-Cora, Polychromed eroded block model of a rowing vessel. It is a smooth-edged pointed gatter with straight stevens. It has built a sharp underwater ship on a keel, which could indicate a flawless prowl: this ...
EditorialRubber shares. The Illustrated London News. London, March 5, 1910. A boom against which many may be wrecked: The remarkable dealings in rubber shares'. One of the wildest booms ever experienced in the annals of finance: In the rubber market, at the sto...