Electricity Collection (page 6)

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

Dr. Vigourouxs electro-diagnostic at La Salpetriere
Doctor Vigourouxs electro-diagnostic at La Salpetriere

The General Strike - incidents of the Strike 1926
The arrest of a woman (between two policemen in centre foreground) at Hammersmith Broadway in West London during the General Strike

The General Strike - civil constabulary reserve 1926
A unit of new recruits to the new civil constabulary reserve, equipped with steel helmets, truncheons and armlets, leaving headquarters at Buckingham Gate in London during the General Strike

Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine 1849
SHjorth (1801- 1870), Danish inventor Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine. The motor was a significant development from earlier electro-magnetic engines

Claude Pouillet
CLAUDE SERVAIS MATTHIEU POUILLET French physicist known for work in electricity, and statesman. Date: 1791 - 1868

Theodose Comte Moncel
THEODOSE ACHILLE LOUIS, comte du MONCEL French aristocrat who preferred science to farming and did important work in electricity and the telegraph. Date: 1821 - 1884

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Electricity Power Plant
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Electricity Power Plant. Date: circa 1910s

Winning Float for an Electricity Company - North East London. Date: circa 1930s

St. Pauls Minnesota, USA - Ford Plant and Power House, situated oat Mississippi River Boulevard and the Ford Road. Date: circa 1920s

St. Louis Worlds Fair, St. Louis - Electricity Building
St. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Electricity Building Date: 1904

St. Louis Worlds Fair - Machinery and Electricity Building
St. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Machinery and Electricity Building Date: 1904

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

25kV feeder station with electricity overheads and tracks, c.1979 Date: circa 1979

Poems by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840 s. Page 3 of 3. The Complaint of a sunbeam against Dr Faraday, written in honour of the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Electricine. Eclairage de Luxe. Poster by Lucien Lefevre (1895). Private Collection

Advert for electric cookers by Belling 1931
Happy ladies ! Belling has made electric cooking cheap. 1. New visible heat boiling-griller and fastest in the world. 2. Temset automatic oven control. 3. All gleaming white mottled enamel finish

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

Sweden - Trollhattan
Trollhattan, Southern Sweden - founded by the river Gota alv, at the location of Trollhattan Falls. In the late nineteenth century

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

Benjamin Franklins Experiment, flying a kite in a storm, demonstrating the identity of Lightning and Electricity, from which he invented the Lightning Rod. Date: June 1752

Silhouette of people on a tram
Silhouette of people on both decks of a tram. A dog is running in front, and a man is running after it, trying to get on board

Poster: Save More Fuel This Winter
Poster encouraging people to Save More Fuel This Winter as part of the War Effort. circa 1940s

Viennese Resraurant
Owing to the high price of electricity in Vienna, Austria, consumers have gone on stike, dining out in restaurants with candles burning from bottles! Date: 1933

Nollet Experiment 3
Nollet investigates the effects of electricity on living subjects - plants, a cat and a bird. Date: 1754

Bridge, Chicago Harbour
Single leaf bascule bridge of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, in Chicago harbour. It is operated by electricity. Date: 1916

Johannesburg Tramways - Generators
The Power House (Generators) for the Johannesburg Municipal Electric Tramways system Date: 1907

LIGHT AND POWER
Power and light, a study of electricity sub power lines and pylons among the clouds. Date: 1960s

Electric Cooling Towers
Winter study of the electricity cooling towers at Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, in the morning sunshine, with mist rising from the River Nene. Date: 1960s

Nantymoch Chapel, in the Upper Rheidol Valley, Cardiganshire Wales. Sadly submerged when the Rheidol Hydro-Electric Scheme was completed in 1964. Date: 19th century

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

Scouts learn about science
One American Boy Scouts demonstrates some equipment in a Scout-built project to show another group of Scouts the principles of static electricity

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

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

REV BENNETs STARS / 1794
The Rev Bennets stars, produced in varnish by electricity. Date: 1794

New York Edison Company
A view of the New York Edison Company looking across the river at the building. Date: 1912

Electrical Apparatus
Various electrical apparatus: Electroscope Electrophorus Geissler tubes Date: 1882

Electricity Exhib. Paris
Electrical exhibition - this is Room 15, demonstrating the electrical systems of J.Jaspar of Liege. Date: 1881

Electricity & Face
French doctor Duchenne (de Boulogne) demonstrates how facial expressions can be altered by applying electrical current to different muscles of the face Date: circa 1860

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), British mathematical physicist and engineer

Vive St Eloi (2 / 2)
VIVE SAINT-ELOI ! Saint Eloi (Eligius) is the patron of metalworkers (2/2)

Purloining power / W H Robinson
With petrol prices rising, a motorist (with the correct accessory attached) can run his car on electricity at the expense of the local trolleybus company

The Reis Telephone system
The Reis Telephone System (developed by Johann Philipp Reis, 1834 - 1874), demonstrated to the Physical Society in Frankfurt in 1861. Reis speaker worked by magnetostriction

Measuring the current of a large electronic device
A man measures the current running through a large electronic device, possibly an early computer or exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

RMS Olympic, Queens Hotel Queenstown
Two items relating to the RMS Olympic luxury cruise liner. An information card for the Queens Hotel, Queenstown (on the southern coast of Ireland) boasts of redecoration

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