Alva Collection

Thomas Edison / Phonograph
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor with his Edison Business Phonograph

Thomas Edison / La Nature
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Listening to the first phonogram sent to New York from England

Edison -Thomas Alva

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor and businessman, who has been described as Americas greatest inventor

THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931), American Inventor

Alva Vanderbilt (1853 1933), nÚÑáAlva Erskine Smith, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt Duchess of Marlborough. Date: 1895

Thomas Edison / Young
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man Date: 1847 - 1931

Mrs O. H. P. Belmont (Alva Vanderbilt)
Alva Belmont (January 17, 1853 January 26, 1933), n饠 Alva Erskine Smith, and known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor and businessman. Date: 1917

Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), English chemist, inventor and industrialist. As well as inventing the dry plate photographic process

Phonoplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Engraving

Thomas Edison / After Mora
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man Date: 1847 - 1931

Thomas Edison / Mora NY
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man

Tatler cover - Thomas Edison
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Thomas Edison on his 83rd birthday. 1930

Grand procession to the electric light in New York, 1884. US
Grand procession to the electric light in New York on October 31, 1884. Experiment Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Colored engraving. USA

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

Edison / Lab / Electric Lite
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Working on electric light in his laboratory Date: 1880

Thomas Edison / Ilz / Librar
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor in his library Date: 1847 - 1931

Thomas Edison / Scribner
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man Date: 1847 - 1931

ALVAs LAST RIDE / 1573
Alvas last ride through Amsterdam. Date: 1573

Thomas Edison / Leaning
THOMAS ALVA EDISON In his laboratory, circa 1900 Date: 1847 - 1931

Stirling Street, Alva, Clackmannanshire
Stirling Street, Alva, near Stirling, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Date: 1900s

Experiments with the phonograph in the Royal Institution, 1878. Professors John Tyndall and W.H. Preece Speaking into Phonograph. Engraving

Egmont and Hoorn
Lamiral, graaf van Egmont, and graaf van Hoorn are arrested by Alva for their sympathies with religious freedom, despite their loyalty to Felipe II. Date: 10 September 1567

Satire on Oppression
A Dutch satire on Spanish oppression : Margaret of Parma and the duke of Alva turn the screw on the Dutch lion, with the approval of the pope and the king of Spain. Date: circa 1567

Federico De Toledo
FEDERICO DE TOLEDO Spanish military commander in the Netherlands, son of the duke of Alva : governor of Naples 1568, later besieged Haarlem. Date: late 16th century

EDISON, Thomas Alva (1847-1931). United States scientist and inventor. Thomas Edison and his phonograph (1889). Engraving

Duke of Alva
Tiziano Vecello, also called Titian (1490-1576). Portrait of the Duke of Alva. SPAIN. Madrid. Liria Palace. Renaissance art. Cinquecento

Thomas Alva Edison / Ruffe
THOMAS ALVA EDISON With his Gramophone. Date: 1847 - 1931

Thomas Edison, American inventor
A decorative design featuring Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor, sitting at his desk

Alva in Brussels
Margaret of Parma abdicates as governor of the Netherlands : at Brussels her place is taken by the duke of Alva, who will fight resistance with relentless ferocity

Alva and Margaret
The duke of Alva, now governor of the Netherlands in the place of Margaret of Parma who has abdicated, escorts her out of the country

Alvas Statue
After he is safely out of the way, the statue of the hated Alva is dragged through the streets by the citizens of Antwerp

Edison as a Youth
THOMAS ALVA EDISON - as a boy, he sells newspapers and cigars to passengers on the Grand Trunk Railroad

The electric light- Mr Edison in his laboratory: a sketch fr
Illustration showing Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) in his laboratory experimenting with light in 1880. The most prolific inventor the world has ever seen

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

Edison at Work 1880
THOMAS ALVA EDISON working on carbonized paper for his electric lamp, in his laboratory at Menlo Park

Edisons Workshop
THOMAS ALVA EDISON his laboratory at Menlo Park

Thomas Edison / Ilz / Train
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor in 1929 at Dearborn, Michigan with Henry Ford, Mr Black (engineer), Mrs Edison and President Hoover

Thomas Edison / French
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor speaking into his perfected Phonograph

Thomas Edison / Tube Speak
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor speaking through his Perfected Phonograph in America

Thomas Edison / Scribners
THOMAS ALVA EDISON With his camera equipment in 1893

Ta Edison / 77th Birthday
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor on his 77th birthday in his West Orange laboratory

Thomas Edison / Ilz C1900
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Testing his Phonograph, circa 1900

Edison / Paris Exposition
Thomas Alva Edison exhibits at the Paris Exposition

Edison Landing Platform
The landing platform that Thomas Alva Edison envisaged for his flying machines

Edisons Flying Canoe
Thomas Alva Edisons flying canoe, the smaller of his two projected flying machines

Edisons Flying Ship
Thomas Alva Edisons flying ship, the larger of his two projected flying machines

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