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Crossed Wires Fidget
Date: 1991Reference: PP/BCH/10/1/7Part of: Bryan Charnley (1949-1991): archive- Digital Images
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Making the Steel Wires for the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1865.
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A treatise on silk, wool, worsted, cotton, and thread, describing their nature, properties and qualities, with instructions to clean the manufactures in the hosiery branch, And At The Same Time Preserve their Colour and Beauty; (calculated For The Use Of Families.) to which are added, descriptive remarks on frame-work knitting, Knitting With Wires, And Patent Manufacturies. By R. March, Hosier, (no 230) Temple-Bar.
March, R.Date: [1779]- Pictures
A naked woman in an orange cloud, connected by wires to a man in a white laboratory coat. Watercolour by T.E. Hart, 1967.
Hart, Thea E., active approximately 1967.Date: 25.9.67 [25 September 1967]Reference: 2948751iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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An opened electric plug, an electric flex with exposed wires, and a newspaper article about death caused by a wrongly wired plug. Colour lithograph after Robin Day.
Day, Robin, 1915-2010.Reference: 32585i- Books
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The work of Hertz and his successors : being a description of the method of signalling across space without wires by electric waves / by Oliver Lodge.
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940.Date: [1897?]- Pictures
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Sticky wires for catching flies at the meat and fish market, prepared in Zanzibar, held up by a local man. Photograph, ca. 1911.
Aders, W. M.Date: 1911Reference: 562386i- Books
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Signalling through space without wires : being a description of the work of Hertz & his successors / by Oliver J. Lodge.
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940.Date: [1900]- Pictures
A black meandering line crossing brown wires to reach a vertical structure crossed by four parallel red armatures. Watercolour by R. Calver, 1967.
Calver, Roger, active approximately 1967.Date: Nov. 67 [November 1967]Reference: 2917609iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The sufferings and surprizing adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, upon an uninhabited Island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Yeats, without any human Assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing, I. His Conferences with Those who found him out, so whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles's, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put 'prentice to a Lock-Smith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after this Escape, he went to Sea a Cabbin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married Three Wires, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was shipwreck'd on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico.
Longueville, Peter, active 1727.Date: [1750?]- Pictures
A striated pale ground on which are placed sundry items: telegraph poles and wires, a telephone, a typewriter etc. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1954.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 25th August 1954Reference: 2958228iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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The National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London: a nurse attaches electrocardiograph wires to a patient in bed to record her heartbeat. Photograph, ca. 1922.
Date: 1922Reference: 565750i- Pictures
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A wire-drawer working at his bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34924i- Pictures
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Angels drawn by children fly across red wires joined to syringes; advertising a family Christmas charity event in support of AIDS-affected children and their parents in Berlin. Colour lithograph for Kinder-AIDS-Forum e.V., 1993.
Date: 1993Reference: 674239i- Pictures
Death as a skeleton seizes a man who has been killed by electrocution as a result of climbing a telegraph pole and touching a live wire. Colour lithograph by Nemes Fejes (?), 1932.
Nemes Fejes, active 1932.Date: [1932]Reference: 667071i- Pictures
Help provided by the Deutsche Angestellten Krankenkasse to Anna, a child who cuts herself on a rusty piece of barbed wire. Colour lithograph, ca. 199-.
Date: [199?-]Reference: 2072368i- Books
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Reasons for prohibiting the importation of white iron-wire, and against putting old wire into new leather.
Date: 1711]- Journals
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British journal of anaesthesia : BJA.
Date: 1923-- Pictures
A procession of blind men along a country road. Woodcut by J. Wohlfart, 1927.
Wohlfart, Johannes, 1900-1975.Date: [1927?]Reference: 2855934i- Books
Silver wire
Willberg, Kriota- Archives and manuscripts
Leaflet "A Real Live Wire!"
Date: 1920sReference: PENROSE/2/46/5/5Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
HighWire Press proposal and correspondence
Date: 1997-2005Reference: SA/PHY/F/8/6/2Part of: The Physiological Society- Pictures
The use of the chastity belt. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916, after H. Wirings.
Wirings, HeinrichDate: 1916Reference: 45067i- Archives and manuscripts
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Surrounded by barbed wire
Date: 28 February 1983Reference: SA/MAR/336Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection- Books
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The American journal of psychiatry.
Date: [199-]-