Images Dated 10th July 2008

Early Locomotives

Three early steam locomotives. Clockwise, from top left: Penydarren, the first working railway steam locomotive, invented by Richard Trevithick, 1804, John Blenkinsop's Salamanca, built in 1812, and Puffing Billy built in 1814 by William Hedley, Jonathan Forster and Timothy Hackworth. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Cars on a road in front of a theatre, Grand Theater, Opera National De Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France

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Early Dynamos

Four early types of dynamo, invented by (top to bottom) Dr Henry Wilde, circa 1865, C. F. Varley, circa 1866, Ernst Werner von Siemens, circa 1866, and Charles Wheatstone, circa 1866. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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