Electro Collection

Electricity Oersted
The Danish scientist Christian Oersted observes the link between electricty and magnetism, enabling him to develop electro-magnetism leading to modern machines

Elkington & Co. Manufacture, Royal Visit 1874
Royal visit by Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) to Elkington factory in Birmingham, where electro and silver plating where made. Date: 1874

Royal visit by Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) to Elkington factory in Birmingham, where electro and silver plating where made. Date: 1874

Electro-plating workshop in the Oudry factory, Paris. Date: circa 1870

Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham
Scenes from Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham -- raising, plating, stamping and vats. Date: circa 1850s

Advert for Charles Packer, electro-plate items 1927
Sterling silver afternoon tea set and electro-plate pyrex glass dish, nut dish and crax and an oak whisky barrel. 1927

Advert for Mappin & Brothers cutlery 1891
Advertisement for Mappin & Brothers, showing the exterior of the factory in Sheffield, where you can buy your cutlery at the manufactures direct or have it repaired, replated and re-bladed ect. 1891

Farmers in France cultivating the ground after World War One were finding unexploded projectiles. In this drawing you can see a operator with a telephone receiver (microphone)

Inside the school room for artist that are turning the artwork into engravings using the new electro-dynamo machines that saved many hours in electrotyping, to go into the weekly Graphic. Date: 1881

Patent Electropathic Battery Belt for men and women

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1895
Every man & woman in search of heath & strength, all sufferers from disorders of the nerves, stomach, liver or kidneys should procure and wear. Date: 1895

Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham 1844 Elkington & Co
Scenes from Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham, woman worker, burnishing. Date: 1844

Elkingtons Electro-plate Factory, Birmingham 1844
The silver deposit room at Elkingtons Electro-plate Factory, Birmingham. The objects to be plated are connected to an electrical cable (routed across the ceiling)

ELECTRO-CHEMICAL PHONE
Edisons Electro-chemical telephone. Date: 1879

BELLS / EDISONS T-PHONES
Graham Bells first telephone, hand telephone and long- distance telephone, shown alongside Edisons transmitter, and loud speaking phone. Date: late 19th century

PRIESTLEYS BATTERY 64-cell electro-chemical battery, invented by Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), English clergyman and chemist. Date: 1810

HAIL-FIGHTING MACHINE
Dupuis-Delcourt proposes this device - the electro- subtracteur - which, he tells us, will prevent hailstorms by electrically subtracting ice from the stormclouds. Maybe. Date: 1850

Advert for Elkington & Co Victorian items 1896
Advert for Elkington & Co, with Victorian household items including polished oak Tantalus with nickel plated mounts, and best cut Hobnail Quart bottles, corinthian table lamp

Spoons, forks and fish knives, Plate 220
Spoons and forks, fish knives and forks, electro silver plated on best nickel silver, Plate 220. Date: circa 1880s

Advert for Maple & Co. lamps 1888
Selection of Victorian lamps with decorative stands. 1888

Advert for John Bennett calendar watches 1902
Reverse pocket watch with the time on one side and separate clock for seconds and on the back the date with day, month, and year. 1902

Advert for Mappin & Webbs wedding gifts 1889
Selection of silver plate wedding gifts; fluted biscuit, butter and cheese stand, oak salad bowl, with electro silver mounts with servers to match, solid silver salt cellars and spoons

Electro silver plated goods, Plate 222, including a range of cutlery, nutcrackers, cheese scoops, sandwich tongs and grape scissors. Date: circa 1880s

Siemens Electric Lift
An electro-magnetic lift exhibited at Mannheim, designed by Siemens and Halske. The back rail is a set of teeth to prevent a sudden fall. Date: 19 February 1881

Advert for Electropathic Battery Belt 1885
Electropathic Battery Belt, restorer of impaired vital energy and its unvarying success. 1885

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1885
Patent harnesses for men and women, effectual remedy for illnesses, with testimonials. 1885

Advert for Harness Electropathic corset belts 1888
Harness Electropathic belt treatment. 1888

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1886
Heath restored by means of mild continuous currents of electricity (without shock) generated by wearing. Thousands have been successfully treated for nervous exhaustion, brain-fag, melancholia

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1892
Seeing is Believing! Harness electropathic corset belts, cures thousands of sufferers without the aid of poisonous drugs or quark nostrums. 1892

Advert for J. C Vickery wind screen for match box 1914
Electro-plated or polished lacquered brass, easy to use works in the must strongest winds patent match box screen. Flat silver pocket flask. 1914

Advert for Harness Electropathic Belt 1889
Health restored by means of mild continuous currents of electricity generated (without shock) by wearing Harness Electropathic Belt, thousands have been treated

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1889
They cure nervous weakness, sleeplessness, neuralgia, debility, rheumatic affections, liver and kidney disorders, internal weakness and hysteria. 1889

Advert for Harness Electropathic corset belts 1891
Advert for Harness Electropathic corset belts no taking poisonous drugs or quack nostrums. Claims to cure all rheumatic and nervous affections. 1891

Advert for Harness electropathic corset belts 1887
Advert for Harness electropathic corset belts no taking poisonous drugs, for ladies and gentlemen, claims to cure a variety of ailments from nevous affections, depression, sleeplessness

Tram Construction at Belfast, Electro-Motor Carriage and Tram Base in Finishing Shed - a view of the undercarriage and wheels of a tram and a finished tram base ahead in a large indoor workplace

Dessert knives and forks, Plate 221
Electro silver plated dessert knives and forks, Plate 221. Date: circa 1880s

Seletion of sterling silver, electro-plate knives 1929
A seletion of sterling silver and electro-plated knives with ivory or mother-of-pearl handles. Products available from the Harrods catalogue cutlery department. Date: 1929

Seletion of sterling silver, electro-plate cutlery 1929
A selection of sterling silver, electro-plate and stainless steel butter, bread, cake knives, cheese scoop, sugar sifter, tea infuser, asparagus tongs, wine cork, crumb scoop, pickle, butter

Cooke / Wheatstone Telegr
The discovery of current by Volta in 1800 and the electro- magnet in 1824, led to the invention of the magnetic telegraph. This is Cooke and Wheatstones 5-needle machine. Date: 1837

Advert for Mappin & Webbs Christmas presents 1888
Selection of artistic and useful Christmas presents. 1888

Advert for Electropathic & Zander Institute 1892
Electropathic treatment showing the interior of a private consulting and treatment room in Oxford Street, the comfortable Harness Belt for men and women that gives support

Advert for Electropathic Battery Belt 1892
Mr. C. B Harness the president of the Institute and the other officers of the Company, may consulted free of charge on all matters relating to health and the application of curative electricity

Advert for Harness Electropathic Belt 1892
Comfortable to wear and guaranteed, the Harness Electropathic Belt, with a mild continuous current of electricity which cannot fail to invigorate the debilitated constitution. 1892

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths tableware 1898
Selection of eletro-plate tableware, all available from Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, in Regent Street, London. Date: 1898

Catalogue of breakfast tableware 1929
Catalogue for breakfast tableware, showing egg steamer for four, egg stand, egg cup with spoon and an egg cooker for poached and some hot water jugs and coffee maker Date: 1929

Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal
Steel Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal Date: circa 1920s

Mustard pot (Mappin & Webb), WW1
Mustard pot (made by Mappin & Webb) belonging to the Mess of the 4th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment. Commemorative Ware

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

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

Various manufactories, Birmingham: Osler glass works; Taylor & Co pin & wire works; Elkington electro-plate works; and Penny & Co steel pen works

Electroplating Factory
Walker & Hall, electroplating factory, Sheffield 1885 Date: 1885

Front of electro-shutters, with positions of panels before, during, and after exposure. Date c1881

A photographing camera and back of electro-shutter. Date c1881

Folklore / Insects
CROSSEs ACARI Insect which Crosse believed he had created spontaneously and inadvertently in the course of electro-chemical experiments Date: 1837

Electro-magnet
A photograph showing well-known French surgeon, Professor Bergonie applying an electro-magnet to extract a shell splinter from a soldier during an operation at Grand-Lebrun hospital in Bordeaux

Airship of Pluto
The people of Pluto solve the problem, how to fly when theres no atmosphere, by developing this flying wing which uses electro-magnetic force for propulsion

Electro-magnetic surgery
A tool to aid surgeons in the operating theatre. A electro-magnetic machine to detect and remove metal particles from wounds

Francisque Crotte / 1901
Francois Crottes electrical cure for TB being demonstrated on a female sufferer

Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine
Sketch of the Danish inventor Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine. The motor was a significant development from earlier electro-magnetic engines

Electro-Magnet / Cig Card
Electro-magnet capable of lifting 46 tons

Joseph Henry / Century
JOSEPH HENRY American physicist associated with electro-magnetism - the henry unit of induction is named for him; director of the Smithsonian, Washington

Advert / Electro Belts
All in Search of Health should wear Harness Electropathic Belts for Weak Men and Delicate Women; they are Scientifically Constructed

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