Electric Collection (page 3)

New Eastbourne Tram
One of the beautiful new double-decker trams, built to a gauge of only 15 inches, which run from Eastbourne along the Crumbles, Sussex, England

Lecture on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity
A lecture at the Charterhouse, London on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity. In the early eighteenth century, Gray demonstrated that charges of electricity could be conducted by some materials

Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean cafe, Derby
Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean, The Wardwick, Derbys Supreme Cafe, where you need not be ashamed to meet your friends, and where you can hear the famous electric gramophone

Harness Electric Corsets for women of all ages

Electric Oil Remedy / 1890
Advertisement for Dr Thomass Electric Oil: the great internal and external remedy

Broker and Ticker-Tape
An American stockbroker receives market information on ticker-tape by the electric telegraph

Electric Signal Box
The all-electric signal-box outside Waterloo Station, London

Clock Mechanisms
A variety of clocks: an electric clock, a water clock, a sun dial, clock movements and pendulums

Trams, Finsbury Park
TRAMS AT FINSBURY PARK, LONDON The boy stood on the tramway line, The driver rang his bell. The tram went on to Finsbury Park : the boy went down to H*ll

Porch Light
A lamplight pattern from a porch light at St. Edwards House, Westminster, London

Ritemp Washing Machine
A housewife prepares to drain her English Electric Ritemp washing machine, simply and rapidly, into bucket or drain, according to the instruction book

Fairs / Electric Cars / 1956
Monte Carlo Rally electric car ride at Dreamland, Margate

The Electric Polka by Alphonse Cary
Promotional music sheet for The Electric Polka by Alphonse Cary, circa 1880s, showing Mestopheles shining an electric light over the recently-constructed Victoria Embankment in London Date

Metropolitan Electric Tramways Ltd 1909
Metropolitan Electric Tramways Ltd, operating in North London, adopting the German trackless idea of running electric trolley cars on the ordinary road. Date: 1909

Advert for R. Waygood & Co. lift makers 1898 Advert for R. Waygood & Co
Advertisement for R Waygood and Co. Lift Makers (by appointment to H M the Queen) specialising in Electric, hydraulic and Belt Driven lifts for all buildings. Date: 1898

Pontchartrain Hotel, Campus Martius, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Pontchartrain Hotel (left) and Hammond Building (right), Campus Martius, Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument can be seen in the left foreground

Football after dark: a match on the first association ground
Playing with a specially made white chrome ball, lit by powerful electric lamps on thirty masts: ladies football teams on the Burnley cricket club ground during a match

Rhayader, Wales - Craig-y-alt-Goch dam
Craig-y-alt-Goch dam, in the Elan Valley, Rhayader, Wales. The reservoir supplies water to Birmingham - 80 miles away! Date: circa 1920s

GAF English Electric Canberra B20 A84-220
GAF English Electric Canberra B20, A84-220, of the RaF

Air Race winning English Electric Canberra PR3, WE139
Rolling out Flt Lt Burtons New Zealand Air Race winning English Electric Canberra PR3, WE139, at Heathrow, October 1953. Date: 1953

The second prototype English Electric Lightning T4 XL629
The second prototype English Electric Lightning T4, XL629

Engineers laying a new electric cable at Croydon Airport in March 1935. Among the aircraft in the background are Boulton & Paul P71A, G-ACOX, Boadicea, of Imperial Airways; Short L17, G-ACJJ

LCC-LFB battery-electric pump-escape at Southwark
An early electric wheeled escape ladder vehicle, Cedes battery-driven pump/50ft escape, based at Bow fire station, seen here in the drill yard at Southwark Headquarters

LCC-LFB battery-electric pump-escape at Southwark HQ
An early electric wheeled ladder escape vehicle, a Cedes battery-driven pump/50 foot escape, based at Bow fire station, seen here in the drill yard of Southwark Headquarters

The world of tomorrow- some dreams of invention run riot; th
Illustration of an aerial mono rail (note date, 1st April 1905) as a vision of the future for railways. The caption states The scientific prophet looks forward to electric traction on this system

Aluminium Tram 1932
Trams with aluminium bodies are introduced on Londons tramways : this one is on the Borough and LOndon Bridge route. Date: 1932

US Electric Train
The Olympian, an electric train of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific Railroad passes through the Montana Canyon

Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway - a unique coastline railway running through the shallow coastal waters of the English Channel between 1896 and 1901. Date: circa 1900

Durban, West Street
An electric tram ascends West Street, as seen from Beach Road : there is a bakery on the right Date: 1915

Women as electricians WWI
Women in London electric station. During World War One there seemed to be no limit to the number of civilian occupations that women showed themselves cabable of replacing men

English Electric Canberra B6 WJ764
English Electric Canberra B6, WJ764

English Electric Lightning T4 XM969
English Electric Lightning T4, XM969

Patent turbo electric generator (steam motor and dynamo combined), 1890 Date: 1890

Specification & tender for ?Otis? electric passenger elevato
IMechE: specification & tender for ?Otis? electric passenger elevator, 25 Feb 1897 Date: 1897

Railway signal at night
Colour-light signalling, a modern innovation in the early 1960s, on an electrified railway line. Electrification of busy routes demanded a system of train control that was rapid

Manufacture of circuit boards
A complicated multi-component electronic device for manufacturing circuit boards. It consists of a number of miniature soldering irons to attach the electrical components and a magnifying camera

Poster advertising the electric Simplon Line, serving the Simplon Pass from Switzerland to Italy

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected

San Fansisco - Oakland Bay Bridge
Illustration of San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge, at the time the largest bridge system in the world at 8.25 miles long

Electric Tattooer
Max O Reilly, of New York, invents an electric tattooing pen which is not only faster than the manual method, but also less painful

Kenwood Mixer C1950S
A Kenwood mixer

Joule / Electricity Test
James Prescott Joule, English physicist, measures the rate at which heat is produced by an electric current. The joule, a unit of work or energy, is named after him

LIGHTING AT L OPERA 1887
The illumination of the new stage lighting and gas and electric lights at l Opera, Paris

Electric Rail Dinner
Still another use for electricity: a miniature railway that brings food from the pantry to the table, removing the need for contact with troublesome servants

Electric Fire Engine
Merryweathers electrically propelled fire-engine, which enabled 12 men to travel on the vehicle

Timing a Motor Cycle
Timing a motor cycle : when the machine crosses beams from photo-electric cella at the start and finish of the run, the time is measured. (In fact, the beam is invisible.)

Electricity Ramsden
Jesse Ramsden of London demonstrates his improvement on Guerickes electric machine, replacing the sphere by a rotating disc

Chappes Telegraph - 1
The optical telegraph of Claude Chappe and his brother is erected on the Eglise de Montmartre, overlooking Paris

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