Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

ElectricityReset filters
86 results
  • Electricity: an electrometer attached to an electro-static generator. Engraving, 1769.
  • Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.
  • Electric discharges in vacuum tube, belonging to J.P. Gassiot. Coloured lithograph etching, ca. 1860.
  • Panama-Pacific Exposition.
  • Telegraphy: symbols used in to convey various letters and numbers telegraphically. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série d'expériences. Faites en présence des commissaires de l'Institut National de France, et en divers amphithéâtres anatomiques de Londres par Jean Aldini / [Giovanni Aldini].
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it to medical purposes : with an essay on magnetism / by George Adams.
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator machine in use in the Colosseum, London, with many condenser jars and four operators. Wood engraving, 1839.
  • Electricity: an electro-static machine charging three Leyden Jars. Engraving.
  • A pair of police constables, wearing stovepipe hats, rushing to send a telegraphic report of a murder. Engraving.
  • Lettres sur l'électricité. Dans lesquelles on examine les dernieres découvertes qui ont été faites sur cette matière, et les conséquences que l'on en peut tirer / Par M. l'abbé Nollet.
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • An essay on electricity. In which the theory and practice of that useful science, are illustrated by a variety of experiments, arranged in a methodical manner / To which is added an essay on magnetism. By George Adams.
  • Essai sur l'électricité des corps / [Nollet (Jean Antoine)].
  • International exhibition of artistic furniture and home decorations, food, health and pharmacy 1907 : Crystal Palace, London : diploma for Grand-Prix with gold medal awarded to "Ajax" dry-cell (section speciale de medecine) for electric-system... / British Electric System.
  • No. 1, Festival Hall and Cascades. Gelatin silver print, 1904
  • Essai sur l'électricité des corps / Par M. l'Abbé Nollet.
  • Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série d'expériences. Faites en présence des commissaires de l'Institut National de France, et en divers amphithéâtres anatomiques de Londres par Jean Aldini / [Giovanni Aldini].
  • Electricity: J. Cuthbertson's electro-static generator, batteries, etc. Engraving, 1804, by W. Lowry.
  • Electricity: electrical equipment, batteries, etc. Coloured engraving, 1804, by J. Pass, after H. Lascelles.
  • A large vehicle (Phoebus's cart), on which is an electrical generator, being pulled along by winged horses with light bulbs on their heads: electricity sweeps all before it. Wood engraving by Swain, 1881, after J. Tenniel.
  • Birkbeck, T. B.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • Electro-plating: three-quarter views of a statue, a wine-jug, and an electroplating bath. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator, on an isolating frame [?]. Engraving.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • A complete treatise of electricity in theory and practice; with original experiments / By Tiberius Cavallo.
  • Components of the electromechanical telegraph network. Process print.
  • Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série d'expériences. Faites en présence des commissaires de l'Institut National de France, et en divers amphithéâtres anatomiques de Londres par Jean Aldini / [Giovanni Aldini].