Electricity Collection (page 5)

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

Michael Faraday, British chemist and physicist, c1845. Artist: J Cook
Michael Faraday, British chemist and physicist, c1845. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

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]

A Dinner Table at Night, 1884. Artist: John Singer Sargent
A Dinner Table at Night, 1884. Painting held in Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco. From The Studio Volume 90. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1925]

1930s interior with contemporary lighting, 1930. From The Studio Volume 99. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1930]

The discovery of the Leyden Jar, 1745 (1894). An experiment conducted by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek. Musschenbroeck (1692-1761) and his student, Andrea Cunaeus

Cleaning air by electricity, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

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

High voltage test house, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

High power grid-glow tube, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

The Ignitron tube, 1938. Invented by Joseph Slepian, an employee of Westinghouse, the Ignitron is a gas-filled tube known as a mercury-arc rectifier

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

Circulating area of Piccadilly Circus Station, 1929. The station was opened on 10 March 1906 and was designed by Charles Henry Holden (1875-1960)

Clive of India programme for the Savoy Theatre, 1934. The Savoy Theatre was the first public building in the world, to be lit entirely by electricity

The Ediswan Pointolite, c1916. The Edison and Swan Electric Light Company Limited was an English manufacturer of incandescent lamp bulbs and other electrical goods

The First Incandescent Electric Lamp, c1916. Early carbon and rod filament incandescent electric lamp 1878-9. Made by the English chemist, Joseph Swan (1827-1914)

The First Parsons Turbo-Electric Generating Station, c1916. A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam

Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and politician, 1782 (1956). Franklin (1706-1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776

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

Pieter van Musschenbroek and Andreas Cunaeus, Dutch scientists, c1870. Artist: CL van Kesteren
Pieter van Musschenbroek and Andreas Cunaeus, Dutch scientists, c1870. In 1745, Musschenbroek and his student, Cunaeus, invented a cheap and convenient device for storing an electric charge

Electrostatic machines, 1819. Dr van Marums machine and Mr Reids improved machine. In the 1780s Dutch scientist Martin van Marum built his electriseermachine for use in electrical experiments

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

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematician, physicist and engineer, 1877. Kelvin (1824-1907) was a leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century

Dynamos, c19th century

Electricity, c1891
Electricity. Various aspects of electricity and electrical apparatus, including Edelmanns Quarter-Cylinder Electrometer (1), Leyden Jar (2), Wimshurst Influence Machine (3), Electrophorus (4, 5)

General Electric Cos Showroom, 1933. From The Studio Volume 106. [The Offices of the Studio, London, 1933]

Benjamin Franklin, 18th century American scientist, inventor and politician, c1819. Artist: Holl
Benjamin Franklin, 18th century American scientist, inventor and politician, c1819. Franklin (1706-1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776

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

The Great Ballroom in the Palace of Electricity, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900). Artist: G Garen
The Great Ballroom in the Palace of Electricity, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900)

Fountains at the Palace of Electricity, Champ de Mars, Paris World Exposition 1889, (1900). Artist: Ewald Thiel
Fountains at the Palace of Electricity, Champ de Mars, Paris World Exposition 1889, (1900)

Michael Faraday, 19th century British chemist and physicist, (20th century). Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, 1835 (20th century). Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

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

Lord Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist and engineer, (c1924). Kelvin (1824-1907) was a leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century

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

Benjamin Franklin, political figure and statesmen of the United States, (early 20th century). Artist: Gordon Ross
Benjamin Franklin, political figure and statesmen of the United States, (early 20th century). Franklin (1706-1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776

Michael Faraday, British physicist and chemist, 1931. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Electrical Experiment, 1777. Artist: Amedee van Loo
Electrical Experiment, 1777. Found in the collection of the State Museum Arkhangelskoye Estate, Moscow

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

Umberto Bratti, a Donzere-Mondragon canal and power worker, 1952. The Donzere-Mondragon dam on the River Rhone in France was built in 1952. It provides hydroelectric power

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