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Main station of the Exchange Telegraph Company, London, 1882. An operator receives a message on a ticker-tape machine. A Morse transmitting instrument is connected directly to the Stock Exchange
Manufacture of electric batteries, USA, 1887. Interior view of MWJ Jenkss Electrical Accumulator Company, New York
Giant galvanometer in the physics laboratory, Cornell University, New York, USA, 1886. A galvanometer is an instrument for measuring small electric currents
Lord Kelvins mirror galvanometer, 1876. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) devised this instrument for measuring small electric currents
Lord Kelvins transatlantic telegraph, 1877. Artist: John Wright OakesLord Kelvins transatlantic telegraph, 1877. William Thomsons (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907) receiving apparatus used at Brest, France, including his mirror galvanometer (left)
Operator receiving a message in Morse code on an electric printing telegraph, 1887. In the box under the table are the wet cells (batteries) supplying electricity
Telegraph office, c1900. A man reads a message he has received (left). Inside the office an operator sends a message using a Morse transmitting key (right)
Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph, 1887. He is tapping out the message with a key using the code developed by Samuel Morse and Alexander Bain
Morses first telegraph, 1837 (c1900). Artist: Sir John GilbertMorses first telegraph, 1837 (c1900). Invented by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), this was the first functional electric telegraph
Morse electric printing telegraph, c1882. Rear view of the instrument showing the roll of paper for recording messages and the transmitting key at C. D are wet cells (batteries) providing electricity
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1851. Oersted (1777-1851) discovered that electric current has an effect on a magnetic needle
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, [c1870]. Oersted (1777-1851) discovered that electric current has an effect on a magnetic needle
Casellis pantelegraph, 1874. This device, invented by the Italian abbot and inventor Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891) was effectively an early fax machine
Rear view of Charles Wheatstones electric (railway) telegraph, 1850. Showing its connection OT lines running beside the railway track. From Illustrations of Natural Philosophyby John Reynolds
X-ray apparatus, 1915. Apparatus powered by a Ruhmkorff coil being used to take an X-ray of a hand. Cigarette card
Various substances fluorescing in vacuum tubes of different shapes, 1903
Electricity, c1850. Various aspects of electricity and electrical apparatus, including attraction and repulsion (1, 2), Leyden jar and condenser (6, 7)
Magnetism, c1850. Educational plate showing various aspects of magnetism and electromagnetism including a dip needle, compass, the lifting power of an electromagnet (12), Wheatstone telegraph (13)
Davys electric egg, 1883. Invented in 1809, it produced intense light from a voltaic arc between the points of two carbon rods
Leyden jar and Pieter van Musschenbroecks electrical experiment of 1746 (1765). Van Musschenbroeck (1692-1761) attempted to electrify water in bottle as had been done by his pupil Cuneus
Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 1846Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 23 January 1846. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century
Luigi Galvanis experiments with electricity, 1791. An electrostatic machine, a Leyden jar and various experiments conducted by Italian physiologist Galvani (1737-1798)
Faradays electromagnetic induction experiment, 1882. The inner coil is connected to a liquid battery, the outer coil to a galvanometer
Alessandro Voltas wet pile battery, 1800Alessandro Voltas wet pile or battery, 1800. Italian physicist Volta (1745-1827) was the inventor of the voltaic pile, an early battery and the first source of current electricity
Edisons incandescent light globe in a table lamp fitting, 1891. The filament here is carbonised bamboo fibres. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor
Edisons incandescent lamps showing various forms of carbon filament, 1883. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb
Edisons carbon filament lamp, 1880. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb
Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, USA, 6 August 1890Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, Auburn Prison, USA, 6 August 1890. William Kemmler, a brute who chopped a woman to bits with an axe
Electric chair, 1898. The Death Chair. In reality it is a simple, though exceedingly strongly made, ordinary chair, the electric apparatus being entirely separate
Boyers photographic studio, 1899. Family posing within a wooden framework with gauze-like material stretched over it. This produced an evenly diffused light when the magnesium flash on the top right
Photographers studio, c1895. The photogapher is focusing on his sitters. Above is a bank of arc lights. The use of bright artificial light meant that exposure times could be reduced to a few seconds
La Salle des Illusions, Paris, September 1900. Illustration showing the electrical illuminations in the Hall of Illusions at the International Exhibition
Women workers in a carpet factory, c1895. Electric lights with incandescent bulbs hang over each loom to supplement natural lighting and enable the working day to be extended
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c1900. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA
Thunderbolt or lightning, 1508. A man sheltering under a tree struck by lightning or a thunderbolt. From Margarita philosophica (The Pearl of Philosophy) by Gregor Reisch. (Basel, 1508)
Sketch of Alexander Graham Bells telephone of 1876. Artist: Alexander Graham BellSketch of Alexander Graham Bells telephone of 1876. Scottish-born American inventor Bell (1847-1922) filed the patent for his telephone at the United States Patent Office at 3pm on 14 February 1876
Work of Marie and Pierre Curie, 1904. High voltage equipment used by Pierre and Marie Curie to investigate the electrical conductivity of air exposed to radium. From La Nature. (Paris, 1904)
Carbon microphone, invented in 1878 by David Edward Hughes, 1890. The apparatus was said to be so sensitive that a fly walking on the sounding-board could be heard by an observer on a telephone
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 1778. Franklin (1706-1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1820 (c1880). Oersted (1777-1851) observing that electric current has an effect on a magnetic needle
William Edward Ayrton (1847-1908), British physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, 1892. Ayrton studied under Lord Kelvin at Glasgow
The International Inventions Exhibition, Kensington, London, August 1885. A large crowd in front of fountains illuminated by electric light. The Royal Albert Hall is in the background
Calder Hall nuclear power station, Cumbria. Artist: UKAEACalder Hall nuclear power station, Cumbria. Calder Hall, the worlds first full scale commercial nuclear power station opened on 17 October 1956
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) Italian physicist. On the table are two of his inventions, the Voltaic pile (wet battery) on the left, and the electrophorus
Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836), French mathematician and physicist, 19th century. Ampere established the laws and principles which related magnetism and electricity to each other
Street sign, Rue Ampere, Paris, France. Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836), French mathematician and physicist, established the laws and principles which related magnetism and electricity to each other
Swan incandescent lamps, University College, Dundee, Scotland, 1884Swan incandescent lamps fitted in the engineering classrooms at University College, Dundee, Scotland, 1884
Elevator (lift) by Siemens and Halske, 1890. Artist: R WormellElevator (lift) by Siemens and Halske, 1890. The elevator is powered by an electric motor (A). From Electricity in the Service of Man by R Wormell. (London, 1890)
