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Sending and receiving apparatus with battery box at base, Edison carbon telephone, 1890. Solid metal diaphragm. Wood engraving
Wall-mounted Edison carbon telephone with pony-crown receiver, New York, 1879. Wood engraving
Edison telephone in a wall-mounted box, New York, 1890. Wood engraving
New York telephone subscriber making call through operator at telephone exchange, 1883. Apparatus in picture used an Edison transmitter and a pony-crown receiver
Edison transmitter and a pony crown receiver, New York, c1891. Telephone apparatus available to New York subscribers. This used an Edison transmitter and a pony crown receiver
Cross-section of Edisons lamp-black (carbon) button telephone transmitter (microphone), c1891. Wood engraving
Michael Faraday, British physicist and chemist, mid 19th century. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century
Michael Faraday, British physicist and chemist, 1881. Top left: reading when apprenticed to Riebau as a bookbinder; top right; experimenting; bottom
Oliver Lodge, British physicist, 1904. Artist: SpyOliver Lodge, British physicist, 1904. Lodge (1851-1940) is best remembered for his investigations into the propagation of electromagnetic waves
Alessandro Volta, demonstrating his pile (battery) to Napoleon, (c1800) 1901Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) Italian physicist, demonstrating his pile (battery) to Napoleon. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 1901
Electric light plant, Maginot Line, France, 1939. Conceived by Andre Maginot (1877-1932) as an impegnable wall on Frances eastern frontier, the Maginot Line was a vast linked set of fortifications
Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (1876). George Louis Lesage (1724-1803), Swiss scientist, devised an early form of electric telegraph
Joseph Wilson Swan, c1880Joseph Wilson Swan, English chemist and physicist, c1880. Swan (1828-1914), pioneer of electric lighting and inventor of bromide photographic paper
Incandescent filament lamp, glow-lamp, by Lane-Fox, 1883Incandescent filament electric lamp, glow-lamp, by Lane-Fox, 1883. St George Lane-Fox-Pitt (1856-1932) took out a number of patents for filament lamps between 1878 and 1881
Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne lit by Swan incandescent electric lamps, 1883. In January 1879 Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914)
Goubet II, French electrically powered submarine adopted by the Russian government, 1890. In trials at Cherbourg in 1889 this submarine, designed by French engineer Claude Goubet
The Electric Torchlight Procession in New York, USA, 1884. A torchlight parade in New York using Edison incandescent lamps fixed to the participants hats
Treatment of Tuberculosis using electricity, 1901. Francisque Crotte demonstrating his cure for tuberculosis using electricity produced by an electrostatic machine
What will he grow to?, 1881. Artist: Joseph SwainWhat will he grow to?, 1881. The Kings of Steam and Coal stand in awe and trepidation over the crib holding the baby Electricity
Very High Farming, 1870. Artist: Joseph SwainVery High Farming, 1870. Science stands in a field holding a telegraph pole, complete with wires. The representative of the countrys farmers, scratches his head in wonder
William Gilbert, English physician, late 16th century. Pictured with his hand resting on a globe. Gilbert established the magnetic nature of the Earth in De Magnete (1600)