Electricity Collection

New Power Stations, advert for British Electricity, 1951. Artist: Norman Wilkinson
New Power Stations, advert for British Electricity, 1951. Paintings of power stations (artists in brackets): Cliff Quay, near Ipswich, Suffolk (Norman Wilkinson); Poole

Lea Hall Colliery and Rugeley A Power Station, Staffordshire, 1963. Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board (NCB) and work began in 1954

Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches, mid-late 19th century

"Pit and tools for rent--work on your own", U. S. 99, Fresno County, California, 1939
U.S. 99. Fresno County. " Pit and tools for rent--work on your own." California. [ Garage; Electric Welding ]

Men building the Camden Town Sub-Station, London, 1908
Men building the Camden Town Sub-Station, 102-116 Arlington Road, London, 1908. Site of an electricity sub-station with workmen and scaffolding

Blowing up the Eastern Arch of the Great Exhibition Building, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Blowing up the Eastern Arch of the Great Exhibition Building, [South Kensington, London], 1864. Demolition of an '...arch which supported the eastern gable end of the nave of the International

100th anniversary of the discovery of the voltaic column, 1899. Creator: Hohenstein, Adolfo (1854-1928)
100th anniversary of the discovery of the voltaic column, 1899. Private Collection

Incandescent a gas. Brevetto Auer, 1895. Creator: Mataloni, Giovanni (1869-1944)
Incandescent a gas. Brevetto Auer, 1895. Private Collection

Electric station boilers, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Electric station boilers, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard: stern view of the ship, 1876. Creator: J. R. W
Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard: stern view of the ship, 1876. Warship launched using electricity. Hammers and battering-rams were applied to the foremost blocks

Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth...Princess Louise Starting the Ship by Electricity...1876. Creator: W. H. O
Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard: Princess Louise Starting the Ship by Electricity, 1876. Mr. W. B. Robinson

AI Image - Portrait of Nikola Tesla, c1900s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI Image - Portrait of Nikola Tesla, c1900s, (2023). Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer

Christmas Holidays at the Polytechnic: the Electric Machine - drawn by H. G. Hine, 1858. Creator: M. Jackson
Christmas Holidays at the Polytechnic: the Electric Machine - drawn by H. G. Hine, 1858. You must see the children, too, at the Polytechnic - as our Artist has seen them - if you would fully

Un Guerrier électrisé, 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un Guerrier electrise, 1844. An Electrified Warrior. Le Physicien: Tel est, messieurs, l'effet veritablement extraordinaire de la pile de Volta!'

Detail of a switchboard in a dynamo room, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Detail of a switchboard in a dynamo room, between 1900 and 1905

La Fee Electricite (The Spark of Life) (detail), 1937. Artist: Raoul Dufy
La Fee Electricite (The Spark of Life) (detail), 1937. Detail from a mural painted for the Paris Exposition of 1937. From the collection of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

The Electric Target invented by Lieut. Chevalier, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Electric Target invented by Lieut. Chevalier, 1860. Self-recording target invented by Lieutenant Chevalier of the 1st West India Regiment

U.S.S. Newark, dynamo room, between 1891 and 1901. Creator: William H. Jackson
U.S.S. Newark, dynamo room, between 1891 and 1901

An Artist's Gathering, 1903. Creator: Viggo Johansen
An Artist's Gathering, 1903

Yacht Althea, engine room, between 1907 and 1915. Creator: Unknown
Yacht Althea, engine room, between 1907 and 1915. Engine made by Standard Motor Construction Company; Witherbee Igniter Co. dials in amperes and volts

U.S.S. Oregon, dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Oregon, dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901

U.S.S. Oregon switchboard in dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901. Creator: Edward H Hart
U.S.S. Oregon switchboard in dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901

Broughton Street, looking east, Savannah, Ga. between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Broughton Street, looking east, Savannah, Ga. between 1900 and 1910

U.S.S. Massachusetts, dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Massachusetts, dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Open carriages and overhead catenaries for trams

Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920
Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. USA. Man and woman with scientific apparatus

Supply Personnel, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Supply Personnel, between 1910 and 1920
Supply Personnel, between 1910 and 1920. Women office workers, USA. Note electric fans. Sign reads: Deposit file papers from executive section here

Procurement Personnel, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Procurement Personnel, between 1910 and 1920
Procurement Personnel, between 1910 and 1920. Women office workers, USA. Note electric fans

Esquisse pour la galerie des métiers de l'Hôtel de Ville : Electricité, 1890. Creator: Pierre Victor Galland
Esquisse pour la galerie des metiers de l'Hotel de Ville : Electricite, 1890. Electricity

Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917
Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. It had an electric player violin and a player piano. It played music off of rolls'. Machine that automatically played a violin and a piano

Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917
Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. It had an electric player violin and a player piano. It played music off of rolls'. Machine that automatically played a violin and a piano

Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917
Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. It had an electric player violin and a player piano. It played music off of rolls'. Machine that automatically played a violin and a piano

Esquisse pour le salon des Sciences de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : La Physique, c.1889 - 1892
Esquisse pour le salon des Sciences de l'Hotel de Ville de Paris : La Physique, between 1889 and 1892. Physics: allegorical figure, dynamo, telephone receiver

Union Station under construction, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Union Station under construction, between 1910 and 1917

Union Station under construction, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Union Station under construction, between 1910 and 1917

Military Group, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Military Group, between 1909 and 1914
Military Group, between 1909 and 1914. USA. North Western Military Academy Signal Corps; Wireless No. 9'. Murdock Wireless Apparatus in use, powered by Exide battery

Bid Board Office of Supplies & Accounts Navy Dept, between 1915 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Bid Board Office of Supplies & Accounts Navy Dept, between 1915 and 1920. USA. Graph with prices in pounds and hundredweights for Pittsburgh steel in sheet, galvanised and bar form

Students conducting electrical experiments with batteries, Western High... Washington DC, (1899?)
Students conducting electrical experiments with batteries, Western High School, Washington, D.C. (1899?)

Group of young women studying static electricity in normal school, Washington, D.C. (1899?)

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Crimean War. The appliances for laying out the wire over irregular ground, and through marshes and rivers

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Crimean War. The Electric Telegraph Company have lately supplied Government with a very complete

Bureau of Engraving And Printing - Treasury Department, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Bureau of Engraving And Printing - Treasury Department, [Washington, DC], 1912. [Man in uniform using communications apparatus]

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California

Rural electrification in Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural electrification in Pulaski County, Arkansas

Electric Light Arrives, 1900. Creator: Manuel Manilla
Electric Light Arrives, 1900

Farm Security Administration camp, Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1941. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration camp. Klamath Falls, Oregon

Rural electrification, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural electrification. San Joaquin Valley, California

Irrigation pump on edge of field, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation pump on edge of field. Electric power typical of San Joaquin Valley farming. Tulare County, California

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