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Elkington & Co. Manufacture, Royal Visit 1874Royal 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
Advert for Mappin & Brothers cutlery 1891Advertisement 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
Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham 1844 Elkington & CoScenes from Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham, woman worker, burnishing. Date: 1844
Elkingtons Electro-plate Factory, Birmingham 1844The silver deposit room at Elkingtons Electro-plate Factory, Birmingham. The objects to be plated are connected to an electrical cable (routed across the ceiling)
Grammes dynamo-electrical machineEngraving by W. Bazzett Murray showing Grammes direct-current dynamo. Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826-1901) built the first successful dynamo in 1869