Wo-usn (known as Yamato Takeru), ancient Japanese hero Size:M: 75 x 50cm Five figures showing Bauer's attempts

Five figures showing Bauer's attempts to grow algae in glass jars from specimens returned to England by Captain John Ross's expedition

From The Illustrated London News (28 November 1857)

Interior of the room next to the White Lyon Prison

Also showing two figures maintaining the site

This feat was officially recognised as having been performed by the British Thrust SSC vehicle driven by Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert

Wo-usn (known as Yamato Takeru), ancient Japanese hero Size:M: 75 x 50cm Five figures showing Bauer's attemptsWo usn (known as Yamato Takeru), ancient Japanese hero, 19th century (1886). Prince Yamato Takeru is a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty. He is thought to have lived in the 4th century AD and his story is told in the chronicles Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. From a drawing by Kikuchi Yosai, engraved in the Zen ken ko jitsu. A print from The Pictorial Arts of Japan, by William Anderson, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1886.