Electric Collection (page 3)

Speeding Across A Continent. Americas first diesel-electric Express has opened up a new era in railway travel, 1935. From " Railway Wonders of the World, Vol. 1"

Langham Hotel, (c1878). Creator: Unknown
Langham Hotel, (c1878). The Langham Hotel in Marylebone, London, was designed by John Giles and built between 1863 and 1865

Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, c1900. Charles F Brush demonstrated one of the worlds first successful electric streetlights here in 1879

Electric light equipment, late 19th-early 20th century?

All Electric from Stem to Stern - The Monarch of Bermuda, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. II, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Fleetway House, London]

Train inaugurating the new electric railway line, southeast of Paris, 1950

Alstrhom electric locomotive

Alco Diesel-Electric Locomotive by RENFE

Alstrhom electric locomotive bi-current 1500 / 3000 volts, 1950
Alstrhom electric locomotive bi-current 1500/3000 volts, 1950

Inside the cab of an electric locomotive, 1950

Electric tram running through the Hernani street in San Sebastian, 1900

Electric trams running through the Alcala street in Madrid, 1910

Electric Tram with trailer load circulating through the Plaza of the Constitution of Zaragoza (Aragon), 1910

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, with his first dynamo for producing electric light, 1880s. Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents

Mazda Half-Watt Type Electric Lamps Advert, 1919. From The British Printer Vol. XXXI. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1919]

Electric Railway Station (City and South London), King William Street, 1891. Artist: William Luker
Electric Railway Station (City and South London), King William Street, 1891. King William Street is a street in the City of London, the historic nucleus and modern financial centre of London

Fitting up an Electric Contact Mine, 1914. A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines

New Electric Locomotive, L. N. E. R. leaving Manchester London Road Station, 1940
New Electric Locomotive, L.N.E.R. leaving Manchester London Road Station, 1940. From Trains of Today. [Juvenile Productions Ltd. London, 1940]

Szczepaniks Electric Card-Cutting Machine, c1903. From Penroses Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co. London, 1903-4]

Gigantic electric lamp, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

All-electric signal box, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Edisons incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery, 1882 (1956). Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

The Electric Light Apparatus, 1866

HM Torpedo Gun Boat Rattlesnake, 1887. The Rattlesnake entered service in 1886 and was retired in 1910. A print from The Illustrated London News, 26th Febuary 1887

The Displacement Sinking and Rising Submarine Boat Nautilus, 1887. Working by electric power. Designed by Andrew Campbell and James Ash, this British submarine underwent trials off Tilbury in 1886

Crossley Motors advert, 1937. A print from The Motor, 4th May 1937

Tram on West Street, Durban, South Africa. A print from View Album of Glorious Durban

Paris World Exposition (1889), 1900. The Hall of Illusions in the Electricity Palace

The electric light at Hell Gate, New York, 1885. The highest electric light in the world. Illustration from the The Graphic, (23 May 1885)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American inventor, (1934). Morse (1791-1872) was a painter of portraits and historic scenes. It is disputed whether Morse had invented the electrical telegraph in 1837 as

Electric multiple unit train, Moscow, USSR, 1920s. This type of train is known as an Elektrichka in Russia. First introduced in the 1920s, they operate suburban and commuter services

American inventor Thomas Alva Edison on board an electric railroad, 1892. Edison constructed a three-mile-long trial electric railroad at his Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey

Electricity In The Art Of Healing, 1881. Artist: W Shinkle
Electricity In The Art Of Healing, 1881. US President James Garfield has medical attention from an electrical detector. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

The electric furnace, 1890-1910. French advertising for Liebig Extract of Meat

The electric railroad to Mount Jungfrau, Swiss Alps, 19th century. Artist: Gustave Francois Lasellaz
The electric railroad to Mount Jungfrau, Swiss Alps, 19th century. A print from les Dernieres Merveilles de la Science, by Daniel Bellet

Thomas Alva Edison at Menlo Park, late 1880s. Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor in his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey

Incandescent light bulb, 1929. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Thomas Alva Edison, 1888
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, 1888. Edison (1847-1931) listening to a recording on his phonograph. This is an electric model powered by a bichromate cell (left)

Thomas Alva Edison, American physicist and inventor, 1929. Obverse of a medal celebrating the 50th anniversary of Edisons (1847-1931) invention of the incandescent lamp in 1879

Electric discharges in rarefied gases, 1892. 2, 3, 5 and 6: Geissler tubes. 1: fluorescence of sulphuret of calcium. 4: nitrogen vacuum (spirals of uranium glass). 7: hydrogen

Advertisement for Ediswan incandescent light bulbs, 1898. The Ediswan brand was the result of a merging of the interests of the two pioneers of electric light bulbs

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, 1924. Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents, many of which were related to the development of electricity

Thomas Edison, American inventor, in his laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1870s (1920s)
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, in his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, working on the perfection of the incandescent light bulb, 1870s (1920s)

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1906
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, listening to a recording on an electric model of his phonograph powered by a wet battery, c1906

Joseph Priestley, English chemist and Presbyterian minister, 1791. Artist: William Bromley
Joseph Priestley, English Chemist and Presbyterian minister, 1791. Priestley (1733-1804) was a pioneer in the study of gases and is recognised as one of the discoverers of oxygen

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1879. Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents, many of which were related to the development of electricity

Thomas Alva Edisons kinetographic theatre, c1892. This combined the recording of sound and vision. From a cigarette card published 1915

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878. In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. Instrument in recording mode

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping