Filament Collection

Plate 327 from The Gleanings of Natural History by George Ed
Plate 328, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Brasilian saw-billed roller

Advertising postcard for Philips Lightbulbs of Eindhoven, Holland. Date: 1910

Plate 90 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Palaemonetes varians, ditch shrimp larva
Larva of the ditch shrimp in stage five of development, just prior to metamorphosis

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931). American Inventor. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird-of-paradise
Plate 29 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, Vol.1, (1893)

Cicinnurus regus, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 74, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Aphrastura spinicauda, thorn-tailed rayadito
Ff. 161. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Motacilla seticulada and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Paradisaea minor, lesser bird-of-paradise
Plate 11, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Cicinnurus regius, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 362 from Carolus Clusius Exoticorum libri decem : quibus Animalium, Plantarum, Aromatum, alioramque peregrinorum Fructuum Histori describuntur, (1605)

Diphyllodes sp. bird-of-paradise
Hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, (1875-1888), 2nd Edition

Parotia lawesii, Lawes parotia
Plate from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Line drawing of a shrimp-like crustacea
An illustration by Dr Lawrence Mound from his Behind The Scenes, 1987

Paradisaea rubra, red bird-of-paradise
Plate 6 from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rocliers, Vol.1, (1806)

Seleucidis melanoleucas, twelve-wired bird-of-paradise
Plate 14 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 1 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Paradisaea apoda, greater bird-of-paradise
Mounted specimen of the greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda), from the Natural History Museum at Tring

Loddigesia mirabilis, marvellous spatuletail
Plate 161, hand coloured lithograph from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, Vol.3, (1849-61)

Merops albicollis, white-throated bee-eater
Watercolour by Chloe Elizabeth Talbot Kelly (1960)

Carbon filament lamps. From the book Diccionario
" Carbon filament lamps. From the book " Diccionario general de Arquitectura e Ingenier� quot; " by Pelayo Clairac y S᥮ z (1879). Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid

Edisons Lamp / Original
Edisons original lamp and lamp fitting. Date: circa 1880

Portable Light Bath
This portable Light Bath immerses the patient in light from carbon filament lamps. [This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical apparatus] Date: 1930

Edisons electric lamp
Components of the electric lamp patented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1879. The lamp worked by passing an electric current through a carbon filament enclosed in a vacuum in a sealed glass bulb

Philips Big Bulb
Advertisement for Philips lamps - Dutch boy and girl tug on filament

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