Electrical Collection (page 7)

Department store by night, Rochester, New York State, USA
The Duffy McInnerney department store (opened 1907) lit up at night in Main Street, Rochester, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1910

Falls Street at night, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA
Falls Street at night, lit by electric lights, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1910

Niagara Falls at night, with lighting, New York State, USA
Niagara Falls at night, with multicoloured electric lighting using one billion lights, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1915

Cartoon, The electric underpants, WW1
Cartoon, The electric underpants, showing a new invention by a German scientist. Not only do the underpants keep the soldier warm in the trenches

The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement for Electric Cookers
The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement promoting the benefits of an Electric Cooker. Date: 1920s

Torpedo torpedo, or eyed electric ray, also known as Common Torpedo, Ocellate Torpedo, Cramp Ray, Turpaena and Numbfish. It can deliver a strong electric shock of up to 200 volts. Date: 1862

Six girls on a Balham street, SW London
Six girls huddled together in front of a wooden fence on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Serving warmed beer, Berlin, Germany
A bartender serving a customer with a warmed glass of beer, using a new electrical device, in Berlin, Germany. Date: circa 1930

Advert for Hawkins kitchen accessories 1952
Home-making begins with Hawkins. Hawkins labour saving kitchen accessory to make light of every chore. From a Tecal, that automatically makes your morning tea or coffee

King Edward VII at National Hospital
King Edward VII inspects electrical medical apparatus at the National Hospital for the paralysed and epileptic. Date: November 1909

Recruit undergoing heart tests, WW1
Testing a new recruit whose heart conditions the Army authorities are doubtful about. Rather worryingly, the photograph shows the man sitting with one bare foot

How the busiest junction in England is worked: electrical devices which protect the passenger from danger on the District Railway. Showing the newly completed Earls Court underground station, London

Menace of Cloudland by G. H. Davis
Cumulo-nimbus -- the menace of Cloudland. Majestic masses which were a danger signal to aircraft during the Second World War

Advert for Clipshaver eletric dry shaver 1937
Not the first but the perfected dry shaver. Not lauched in a hurry to start a vogue but the results of years of experimentation towards perfection

Magnetic mine by G. H. Davis
The German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a

Swanmaid dishwasher advertisement, 1964
Advertisement for the Swanmaid dishwashing machine from 1964, a completely automatic fuss-free front loading scientific washing and drying machine for crockery and cutlery

Cuttens pendulum recorder for psychical research
John Cuttens pendulum recorder (general view above, close-up below), for use in psychical research. This electronic device detects the movements of a pendulum which are recorded on the chart

Electrical Skin treatment Demonstration, 1887
Aleksei Gerasimovich Polotebnov (1838 to 1907) was a pioneering Russian Dermatologist. He invented and demonstrated numerous skin treatments designed to prevent or cure skin diseases of all types

First electric cab licensed in London
The first electric cab ever licensed in London in 1897. Called Berseys after the manager of the Electric Cab Company, they were nicknamed hummingbirds due to the sound they made. Date: 1904

Advert for GEC Electric cleaner 1950
GEC Electric cleaner. 1950

Branly Photo
EDOUARD EUGENE BRANLY French electrical engineer, recogised by Marconi as the true father of wireless : photo 1900. Date: 1844 - 1940

Alex. Stef. Popoff
ALEXANDER STEFANOVICH POPOFF Russian physicist and electrical engineer, credited by the Russians with inventing radio, though others disagree. Date: 1859 - 1906

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 5000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 5000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer

Advertising Card for Whiteleys Electric Shop, 84 John Street, New York, USA - featuring the smiling visage of a pretty model

Court of Electrical Group - Worlds Fair, Chicago, USA. Part of the " Century of Progress" exhibition. Date: 1933

Electrical Appliances
This French farmers wife has an electric cooker, radiator, water heater, iron, boiler, washing machine, sewing machine and ventilator Date: 1961

LCC-LFB Fire investigation, prevention after a fire
An electrical board was the primary cause of a fire in a branch of Barclays Bank in Gracechurch Street, City of London. Showing the affected electrical board

LCC-LFB Lambeths emergency tender and crew
A London A class emergency tender with built-in electrical generator, in use from the early 1950s until the 1960s. Showing Lambeth fire stations (D61)

LCC-LFB Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights
Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights. By the mid-1920s emergency tenders were developing into far more than just a carrier of firefighters with breathing apparatus

LCC-LFB Clerkenwells emergency tender
Emergency tender belonging to Clerkenwell fire station. The ET was primarily a means of providing firefighters with breathing apparatus and illumination at incidents

Graz, electrical elevator, Styria, Austro-Hungary. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Electrical building. Worlds Columbian exposition. Date c1892 Oct. 29

Coming under canvas, George the magician and a full supporting cast of wonder workers and funmakers presenting a spectacle rich in scenic and electrical effects surpassing in splendor

Emile Lowitz demonstration at Royal Botanic Society

The Third Annual Electrical Show, Chicago, USA - held at The Coliseum between January 13th and 25th, 1908. Date: 1908

Electric devices 1913
Modern electrical devices from 1913: A lady fries herself some eggs for her breakfast in an electric frying pan. A nurse heats some water in a hot water cup

Obesity Apparatus
Bergonies apparatus for the treatment of obesity by electrical means. Even in 1930 the device cost 100 pounds. Date: 1930

Advert for Frigidaire electrical fridge
Frigidaire automatic electrical refrigeration cabinet, keeps your food fresh, with ice for cooling drinks, and it cost less than a garage for your car! Date: 1928

Flying Dress
A pilot dressed for a high- altitude flight. Equipped with parachute, harness, oxygen apparatus, telephone, wireless earphones, electrical system for heating clothing. Date: 1920s

Faraday House, Southampton Row, London
Faraday House (now part of Syracuse University) - here the *new* premises of The Electrical Standardizing, Testing and Training Institution - 66, 68 and 70 Southampton Row, London. Date: circa 1910s

Redring advertisement, c. 1955
Advertisement for Redring Metrovick Boiling Plates manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company of Old Trafford, Manchester, showing a jubilant housewife delighted with her new cooker

Kitcheners army recruits drilling, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits drilling outside the Royal Engineers Electrical School at Chatham, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

LEYDEN JAR / 1882
An electrostatic generator connected to a Leyden Jar, a cylindrical device used by early experimenters to store electrical energy. Date: 1882

Kw Siemens / Cassell 1893
KARL WILHELM SIEMENS later SIR CHARLES WILLIAM German-English electrical engineer and industrialist Date: 1823 - 1883

Kw Siemens / Cig Card
KARL WILHELM SIEMENS later SIR CHARLES WILLIAM German-English electrical engineer and industrialist Date: 1823 - 1883

JACOBIs MOTOR (1838)
Jacobis Motor. Date: 1838

Joules Calorimeter
Joules current calorimeter Date: 19th century

Electrical Exhib. Paris
A view of the International displays at the Exhibition of Electricity in Paris. Date: 1881

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