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Electricity Collection (page 7)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Old And New

Old And New
1925: The old and new City and South London Railway electric carriages with locomotives on display at Darlington. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Signal Failure

Signal Failure
1950: A short-lived device for signalling with electricity, used briefly in the early days of the railways in Britain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Police Timer

Police Timer
January 1909: A British police constable inspecting an electric timing device for motor cars. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Electric Van

Electric Van
1st June 1908: An electric delivery van in service for the Great Western Railway. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Delivery Van

Delivery Van
February 1922: An electric motor vehicle belonging to the London & North Western Railway Express Parcels Service on a delivery run. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Sign Of Danger

Sign Of Danger
circa 1916: A sign at the Belgian-Dutch frontier during World War I reads Achtung or Attention and alerts people to the danger of the high voltage electric fence

Background imageElectricity Collection: Liner Launch

Liner Launch
15th September 1928: The new P&O electric liner Viceroy of India goes down the slipway during the launching and christening ceremony at Stephens Yard, Glasgow

Background imageElectricity Collection: Electrical Van

Electrical Van
circa 1926: The cheapest electrical motor van (costing ?150) in a parade of electrical motor vehicles at Lincolns Inn Fields, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Coal Discharger

Coal Discharger
7th June 1926: Barges waiting for access to Regents Canal from Regents Canal Dock, viewed from one of two new electric coal dischargers erected at the dock at Limehouse

Background imageElectricity Collection: Electrical Exhibition

Electrical Exhibition
7th October 1908: An electric iron, kettle, curling tongs and shaving pot on display at The Electrical Exhibition, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: RMS Viceroy Of India

RMS Viceroy Of India
The new electric P&O liner RMS Viceroy of India at anchor in the River Thames off Gravesend in Kent, after her trial journey from Glasgow, 10th March 1929. (Photo by S. R)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Electric meters, Havana, Cuba

Electric meters, Havana, Cuba
Typical old electric meters on apartment building entrance walll, Havana, Cuba

Background imageElectricity Collection: Historic windmills

Historic windmills
18th century windmills in Kinderdijk (UNESCO World Heritage Site) - near Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Background imageElectricity Collection: City night landscape in Shanghai

City night landscape in Shanghai
Five story motorway at night in Shanghai

Background imageElectricity Collection: Hoover Damn in desert landscape

Hoover Damn in desert landscape

Background imageElectricity Collection: Light bulb flare

Light bulb flare
Illuminated light bulb with flare on black background

Background imageElectricity Collection: AndrA -Marie AmpAšre (1775-1836), wood engraving, published in 1880

AndrA -Marie AmpAšre (1775-1836), wood engraving, published in 1880
Andre-Marie AmpAšre (1775 - 1836), French physicist and mathematician. According to him, the international unit of current ampere is named. Wood engraving, published in 1880

Background imageElectricity Collection: Head For Heights - New York

Head For Heights - New York
circa 1940: American Legion roof spotter Benjamin Franklin enjoys the New York Skyline. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageElectricity Collection: Electric Car

Electric Car
An Anwell Johnson electric car at the Electrical Vehicle Parade in Kingston upon Thames, 19th June 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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