Electricity Collection (page 8)

Navy Cadets
A group of boys is taught about steam driven electric generators, which light and heat ships. They hope to become navy cadets one day

Luigi Galvani
LUIGI GALVANI Italian scientist, notable for early experiments with electricity

Nollet Experiment 2
Nollet, at the College de Navarre, Paris, demonstrates how electricity can be generated by stroking a glass globe, and then passed from one person to another

Electrical Spark / 1745
William Watson produces an electrical spark from a human body

Galvani Replicated
While some scientists share Galvani s, and some Voltas views of the nature of electricity, Galvanis findings are confirmed by Halle and von Humboldt

Nollet Lecturing
The Abbe Nollet lectures on electricity at the College de Navarre, Paris

Nollet Experiment
Jean-Antoine Nollet stands beside some of the apparatus with which he researches how electricity can be generated and transferred

Electric Light in Home
LUMIERE ELECTRIQUE A DOMICILE (Electric Light in the Home) - catalogue of a Paris company specialising in the supply and installation of domestic electrical services

Science / Galvani / Electric
Galvani experimented with static electricity to show the current stimulated nerves and muscles of frogs and other animals

Joseph Priestley / Hogg
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY English chemist and clergyman, best known for his experiments with electricity and oxygen Date: 1733 - 1804

Static Electricity
Electricity as a parlour amusement in a Victorian home - a boy about to touch the hand of a girl who stands on a stool while she holds the apparatus

Electricity Experiment
French schoolboys illustrate how the human body can act as an electrical conductor, with the aid of an insulating stool, a small stool with glass legs

Paris Exhib. / Chateau Eau
The fountains outside the Palace of Electricity illuminated at night

Western Union operating room, New York, USA
The Western Union main operating room at the companys New York offices, showing a front view of the switchboard, the pneumatic message system and the mechanical in-house system

Electrostatic Generator
Electrostatic generator by James Wimshurst (1832 - 1903)

France / Revol. / Propaganda
France hopes by electricity to spread the revolutionary current throughout Europe

Baths & Electrical T. Mnt
Diagrams showing various types of bath (shallow bath, hip bath, trunk bath etc.) and treatment with electricity

Electricity V Steam
In the early years of the 20th century electricity began to compete with steam, but proved to be practicable mainly on shorter runs

Tissandier Airship 1
Gaston and Albert TISSANDIERs first project for a dirigible powered by electricity : a modified version flew two years later

Electric Discharges / Gas
Examples of electric discharges in rarified gases

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

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

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

Electricity / Magnetism
Magnetism demonstrated

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

Dusting a Television
A young housewife lifts up an ash tray as she dusts the television

Battersea Power Machine
BATTERSEA POWER STATION, London Electricians at work on a stator for one of the 80, 000 kilowatt turbo-alternators, supplying power to London

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

Electricity Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, by flying a kite in a stormy sky, demonstrates the electrical nature of storm-clouds, giving him the idea of a lightning conductor

Electricity Guericke
At Hamburg, Otto von Guericke, burgomaster of Magdeburg, demonstrates an electrical machine - the first of its kind, based on a rotating sphere generating force

Electricity Supply / 1884
Electricity supply : Edisons Central Station, New York

Brumate Funicular
The Brumate funicular, carrying visitors to Como into the mountains, was originally powered by steam, but soon converted to electricity. It is operated by cable

Watsons Experiment
Watson demonstrates that the human body is an electrical machine by extracting an electric spark from the body of a youth

Guerickes Machine
Otto von Guericke demonstrates his electric machine, producing static electricity from a globe when rubbed

Electric Street Lights
By the start of the 20th century, electricity has become the standard form of street illumination

AMPERE (1775 - 1836)
ANDRE-MARIE AMPERE French scientist, notable for his work in magnetism and electricity. The unit ampere as a measurement of current bears his name

Science / Nollet
The electrical experiments of Jean-Antoine NOLLET, abbe and professor physics at Paris; demonstrating how electricity is conducted by the human body

Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist, researcher into electricity

Battery constructed at the Royal Institution, London
A large battery constructed at the Royal Institution, London, by Wollaston, for Davy

Construction of a voltaic battery in Paris
Construction of a large voltaic battery at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, covering 54 square metres, on the orders of Napoleon

Rontgen / Hodgson / Lab
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen German physicist, discovered X-rays, 1895, Nobel prizewinner, 1901, in his laboratory

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