Electric Collection (page 35)

Girls Sews Doll / Singer
A young lady carries out running repairs on her dolls clothes, without needing to take them off - proof of the versatility of the Singer 66 K6 electric table model

Milan Electric Clock
An electric clock at Milan railway station

BAINs CHEMICAL T GRAPH
BAINs CHEMICAL TELEGRAPH exhibited at the Crystal Palace

Morses Transmitter
Morses original transmitter

French Rly Telegraph
The electric telegraph used on the French Railways

EDISONs TELEGRAPH 1886
Edisons electric telegraph system for railways

Electric Light Comes
Coming events cast their shadows before - and none more so than the electric light, which promises to make all other forms of illumination obsolete

Electric Str. Light U. K
Electric lighting comes to Piccadilly, London, making life easier for pedestrians, cyclists, cabbies and motorists

Electric Lighting, Paris
The wonder of electric street lighting comes to the place du Carrousel, by the Louvre, Paris

Breakfast in Elec. Home
Breakfast in the electric home is facilitated by a coffee percolator, hot plate, and radiator. Hubby reads paper, wife stirs her coffee, and pussy looks rather left out

Tissandier Airship 3
The electric-powered dirigible of Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER flies from Auteuil, near Paris, and qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible airship

Tissandier Airship 2
Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER take off from Auteuil, near Paris, in their electric- powered dirigible which qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible

Electric Discharges / Gas
Examples of electric discharges in rarified gases

Electric Arc / 1870
Examples of the electric arc in rarified gases

Swan in Laboratory
sir JOSEPH WILSON SWAN chemist and electrician who developed a primitive electric light (1860), invented the dry photographic plate, and other important developments

Air-Conditioning Machine
Air-conditioning equipment which cleans air by electricity, devised by the Westinghouse Electric International Co

Arc Welding / Cig Card
Arc welding equipment using an electric current to weld metal at 7000 degrees fahrenheit

Girl with her Doll / Photo
A little girl with her doll stands on an ornate velvet chair to have a photograph taken at an Electric & Daylight studio

Lighting / Electric Torch
ELECTRIC TORCH Advertisement by the Portable Electric Light Co. for a dry battery electric torch

Tram on Cote D azur
On its way from Nice to Monaco, a tram passes a horse- drawn cart on the Corniche

Tram at Marseille
One single-decker tram passes another in the rue Cannebiere, the main street of Marseille, France

Girl with Electric Iron
A girl using an electric iron

Electric Monorail 1909
That electricity will replace steam, and the monorail the twin tracks of conventional railways, seems an inevitable development

Boy in Electric Toy Car
In France, millionaires children, such as the son of Comte de la Taulp, drive tiny electric cars. They cost 35 pounds and can run 35 miles without need of re-charging

All-Electric Signals
An all-electric signal box, replacing the traditional hand-operated signal levers

Electric Restaurant
An electric restaurant in Paris, where food is raised to table mechanically

Electric Dog-Cart 1888
Electric dog-cart : battery- powered. For a while, car designers will look to electricity for their motive power, but sadly, combustion will triumph

Pavel Yablochkov
PAVEL YABLOCHKOV Russian electric engineer, worked on telegraph system, developedthe first arc lamp, settled in Paris 1876

Electric Welding
A welder uses an electric arc- welding tool to join the metal parts of a steel structure. The parts are heated to white heat and metal added to make the join

Electricity Volta
Alessandro Volta demonstrates to Napoleon I his voltaic pile - a battery capable of storing the force created by an electric motor

Bain Chemical Telegraph
Bains chemical telegraph, exhibited at the Crystal Palace, London

Lamps by River
A splendid row of graceful lamps outside County Hall, London

Tea in Electric Home
Afternoon tea in the electric home - a housewife uses her electric kettle and her electric radiator

Stage Effects / Munich
New electric lighting techniques previewed at the Munich Exhibition, 1882

Chappe Optical Telegraph
The optical telegraph of Claude Chappe and his brother, erected on the Eglise de Montmartre, is tested by the French authorities and his system is widely adopted

USA / Saint Louis
Broadway, Saint Louis, Missouri, with electric tram and horse-drawn carriage

USA / Chicago
State Street, with electric trams and horse-drawn carts

Paris Tram 1896
Scene on a busy Paris tram

Electric Train 1940S
An electric train at Raynes Park station, Surrey, England. Photograph taken from a mainline train

Doubledecker Tram Paris
Though Paris never adopts the double-decker bus, its trams have two decks like those of London

Electric Fire Brochure
A uniformed maid carries a flaming plum pudding into the dining room where the family sit in formal dress, warmed by the glow of a Creda electric fire. Date: 1933-4

Frantz Electric Cleaner
A house-proud lady vacuums her home with the Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner

Electric Locomotive
Electric locomotive on the London and South Coast Railway. Power is obtained from overhead cables

Mayfair Hotel Interior ?
Possibly one of the general rooms open to guests at the MAYFAIR HOTEL, Berkeley Street. Comfortable chairs & settees are arranged at the edges of the room

Greyhound & Hare
Unlike its descendants who are compelled to pursue an electric hare, this elegant creature has chased and caught a living prey

Electric Fire
The Raymond electric fire depicted in a traditional fireplace. It costs L3 10s and is fitted with a handle so it can be carried from one room to another

Steel - Electric Oven
High-Temperature Electric Oven

Mountain Railway USA 2
This electric funicular in the Catskill Mountains gives tourists a thrill unknown to Rip van Winkle (whose adventures took place here) as they swoop down and up again

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