Bulb Collection (page 4)

Tulipa stellata, stellated East Indian tulip with white flowers, bulb, stamen and pistil.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Chequer-flowered meadow saffron, Colchicum variegatum.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1790-1800

Cape Hyacinth, with bulb, scarlet leaves, and pale pink flowers, Polyzena corymbosa.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

Rose-coloured ixia from South Africa, Ixia latifolia (Ixia capillaris).. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss Botanical Magazine

Advert for Osram lamps, installed on Queen Mary Ocean Liner
Advertising that Osram lamps were fitted upon the Queen Mary Ocean Liner. Date: 1936

Red Lily Bulb. Matapos - Zimbabwe

Home Gardening magazine, September 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine advising readers to start planting their bulb bowls now in order to ensure a vibrant display of hyacinths indoors over winter. Date: 1932

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

Home Gardening magazine, October 1928
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a lady on plant up of bowl with bulbs. Advice on how to achieve good blooms and strong foliage is contained inside. Date: 1928

Russian Peasants Experience Electricity
Russian Peasants experience the first Electricity in their village in 1925. Date: 1925

Veltheimia viridiflora, lily
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ornithogalum scilloides
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Bulbous plants
Plate 22 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Plantes bulbeuses

Typhonium venosum, voodoo lily
Plate 917 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Amaryllis sp. amarylis
Page 53 from Drawings, Letters and Manuscripts of N. J. Jacquin (c. 1790) by Baron Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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

Tantalum electric lamps with energy saving light bulbs, 1908 Date: 1908

Advert for Mazda light bulbs
Beauty enriched by light. Young ballerina on stage being lite up by Mazda bulbs. Date: 1929

BRAIN TEST
A test for the quickness of the eye and brain. A number is shouted and the person must press the correct bulb as soon as possible. London Institute of Psychology. Date: 1930s

Hyacinth Bulb
A hyacinth bulb cut in two, with a section clearly showing the leaves and flower inside the bulb. Date: 1960s

People in a cafe, sitting at tables and serving behind the counter. The lighting comes from bare, unshaded lightbulbs. circa 1940s

Travellers Pocket Lamp
An electric pocket lamp designed for travellers; the bulb has a silvered reflector behind it to intensify the light Date: 1889

Puschkinia Scilloides (Hyacinth), a perennial flowering plant of the Hyacinthaceae family, with three varieties. It is named after the Russian botanist, Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

Narcissus Cantabricus Monophyllus (Durieu) of the Amaryllidaceae family. It has one leaf per bulb, and a creamy white flower

Photograph of the automatic electric photographic apparatus
Undated photograph of the automatic electric photographic apparatus used in the Rudi Schneider experiments. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into

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

Cumbersome Camera
A smart gent in a suit adjusts the lense of his huge camera, with its enormous flash bulb!

Electric Street Lamp
An old electric street lamp at Chester, Cheshire, England

Plants / Narcissus / Curtis
Hoop petticoat narcissus NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM With bulb illustrated

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

Onion Christmas Card
An onion bulb lady in tightly laced boots holds a placard which reads: With The Seasons Greetings. Perhaps the season in question is harvest time?

C17 Sand Glass
The SAND GLASS, also known as CLEPSAMMIA, measures time by how long sand takes to filter from the upper bulb into the lower; different apertures measure different periods

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