Electromagnetism Collection

Portrait of the Physicist Hans Christian Orsted, 1832-1833. Creator: Christian Albrecht Jensen
Portrait of the Physicist Hans Christian Orsted, 1832-1833

First magnetoelectric motor built by Hippolyte Pixii, c1832 (c1890). This was the first application of Faradays demonstration (1831) that magnetism produces an electric current

Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institute... 1856, (1901). Creator: Unknown
Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institute before the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, 1856, (1901). Michael Faraday (1791-1867) giving a lecture attended by Prince Albert and his son

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 Pound
Michael 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, 1882
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). Scottish theoretical physicist. From Campbell & Garnett The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, 1882

James Clerk Maxwells (1831-1879) comparison apparatus, 1880
James 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 Oakes
Lord 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 Gilbert
Morses 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

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)

John Tyndall lecturing on electromagnetism at the Royal Institution, London. May 1870. Irish-born British physicist Tyndall (1820-1893)

Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1820 (c1880). Oersted (1777-1851) observing that electric current has an effect on a magnetic needle

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

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