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Professor Tyndall lecturing at the Royal Institution, 1870. Creator: UnknownProfessor Tyndall lecturing at the Royal Institution [in London], 1870
Portrait of the Physicist Hans Christian Orsted, 1832-1833
Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institute... 1856, (1901). Creator: UnknownProfessor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institute before the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, 1856, (1901)
First magnetoelectric motor built by Hippolyte Pixii, c1832 (c1890). This was the first application of Faradays demonstration (1831) that magnetism produces an electric current
Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Swan (1828-1914) was the inventor of bromide paper for photography and of an incandescent light bulb
Michael Faraday, British scientist, c1880. Artist: DJ PoundMichael Faraday, British scientist, c1880. Portrait of Faraday (1791-1867), published in a supplement to the Illustrated News of the World, London
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish theoretical physicist, 1882James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). Scottish theoretical physicist. From Campbell & Garnett The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, 1882
James Clerk Maxwells (1831-1879) comparison apparatus, 1880James Clerk Maxwells (1831-1879) apparatus for the comparison of electrostatic and electromagnetic units, 1880. From A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by JEH Gordon, (London, 1880)
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
Lord Kelvins transatlantic telegraph, 1877. Artist: John Wright OakesLord Kelvins transatlantic telegraph, 1877
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)
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
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, [c1870]
Magnetism, c1850
John Tyndall lecturing on electromagnetism at the Royal Institution, London. May 1870
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1820 (c1880)
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