IEE photographs, prints and drawings collection.

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IEE photographs, prints and drawings collection.

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Photographs, prints, drawings and slides, mainly consisting of portraits of eminent 19th and 20th century scientists, electrical engineers, and IEE members. The portraits consist of prints and original photographs, photographic copies of portraits in other media and slides of people such as von Guericke, Faraday, Ronalds, Appleton, Hertha Ayrton (the first woman member of the IEE, elected in 1899) and all Presidents of the Institution. There is also much material illustrating the laying of submarine and other cables from 1865 onwards, including several albums; for example an album of photographs of cable laying across Lake Constance in 1906 and another showing cable laying in Holland by Callenders in 1922. One magnificent album of photographs illustrates the 1881 Paris electrical exhibition. Another shows the stages of the construction of Ferranti's Deptford Power Station, 1888-1892, with photographs of its dismantling in 1933. There are several albums of factory interiors, production lines, products and staff, including one of photographs of the A. H. Hunt capacitor factory during World War II showing equipment, research facilities, production methods and staff training for air raid evacuation. Institution events are recorded, starting with a summer visit to Switzerland in 1899 and including an album of photographs of the centenary celebrations in 1971.

4,000 items.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867

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English physicist and chemist. From the guide to the Michael Faraday letter, 1867 May 1, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) English chemist and physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Royal Institution, to Benjamin Dockray, 1856 Jan. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 607104668 Chemist, physicist. From the description of Michael Faraday letter, 1836. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010683 Engli...

Ronalds, Francis,, Sir, 1788-1873

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Electrical engineer, known for his electrostatic telegraph based on synchronously revolving discs. Honorary director and superintendent of the Meteorological Observatory at Kew, England (1840s), and a founder of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, England. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80044093 ...

Callender's Cable & Construction Company

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Institution of electrical engineers

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Incorporated in 1883, and in 1921 was granted a Royal Charter which recognized it as the representative body of electrical engineers in the United Kingdom. The main purposes of the Institution are: to act as a learned society to promote the dissemination of knowledge about electrical science and engineering; to act as a qualifying body conferring membership on those whose qualifications fulfill the requirement of the Bylaws of the Institution; and to serve as a regulating body for the profession...