19th Century Communication Technology

Engravings showcasing early telecommunication methods, including telegraphs and lathes, depicting historical developments in technology.

Christian Oersted, at the university of Copenhagen, discovers the deviation of a compass needle when subjected to an enclosed electric current Date: 1820

Telegraph office worker forwarding a message in Morse Code, 19th century. From L'Univers Illustre, published Paris, 1859

An engraving depicting a teleprinter in the Bank of England. Dated 19th century

19th century manual lathe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1885

Toxicology laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris. From La Science Illustre, Paris, c1893.

Perpetual motion: Grinding mill driven by horizontal water wheel, which is itself driven by water from a cistern. The wheel is supposed also to raise water to the cistern by an Archimedean screw. The wheel, C, has curved blades, an early form of water turbine. Engraving from Theatrum Machinarum Novum by George Andreas Bockler (Nuremberg, 1673).

PIERRE-EUGENE-MARCELIN BERTHELOT French chemist at work in his laboratory Date: 1827 - 1907

On the spectra of oxygen at high temperatures. Experiments with vertical tube and incandescent spiral. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1893

Christian Oersted, at the university of Copenhagen, discovers the deviation of a compass needle when subjected to an enclosed electric current Date: 1820

Perpetual motion: Grinding mill driven by horizontal water wheel, which is itself driven by water from a cistern. The wheel is supposed also to raise water to the cistern by an Archimedean screw. The wheel, C, has curved blades, an early form of water turbine. Engraving from Theatrum Machinarum Novu

Engraving depicting William Henry Perkin's portable darkroom. William Henry Perkin (1838-1907) a British chemist and entrepreneur. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting Andreas Cunaeus using a Leyden Jar in Pieter van Musschenbroek's lab.

Thomas Finlayson Dewar. Photograph by James Bacon & Sons.

ALESSANDRO VOLTA (1745-1827) EXPERIENCING WITH HIS ELECTRIC BATTERY. ALEJANDRO VOLTA (1745-1827).

The dire results of the literacy! Cartoon from1856. 'COOK - BOTTLE JACK -- PENNY DREADFUL'.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1894) French chemist, investigating the existence of oxygen in the air; experiment in which he obtained mercuric oxide. From Camille Flammarion The Atmosphere, London, 1873. Engraving

LOUIS PASTEUR French chemist and microbiologist in his laboratory Date: 1822 - 1895

Jules Antoine Lissajou's original apparatus (1857-58) for studying optically the vibration of sound. Engraving from ''The Forces of Nature'' by Amedee Guillemin, London, 1873.

Engraving depicting a photographer in his darkroom. Dated 19th century

Shop of a Grocer and Druggist in the 17th century

The Dosing and Capping of Champagne Bottles in France in 1885, Historical, Digital Reproduction of an Original 19th century Template

Workshop handmade candles. 18th century. Engraving in Encyclopedie by Diderot et d'Alembert. Engraving.

Illustration showing Planishing or hammering a large item of silver plate, after electroplating to get the silver to 'take better'. 1844

Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist, at work in his laboratory. Engraving from 'The Popular Educator', Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London (c1885)

Man in front of a Barometer, Weather Forecast, 1850, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Edison's fluoroscope, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIII, No 27, July 5, 1896.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Study of microbes in the Pasteur Institute. Engraving.

Button Maker: Stamping out metal buttons. Blank held in place and weight holding die for pattern being work was raised by rope and pulley wheel and dropped on blank. Dies for different sizes and patterns on floor. Buttons would need finishing by removal of burrs and imperfections. Hand-coloured woodcut from 'The Book of English Trades' London 1823.

KOCH, ROBERT. MEDICO ALEMAN. 1843-1880. EN SU LABORATORIO. GRABADO 1890. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

Engraving depicting René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur constructing a thermometer. René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757) a French scientist. Dated 19th Century

Antique street lamp. The electric magic lantern on the streets of Paris in the late 1800s. France, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1889

An engraving depicting the process of cutting a diamond. Dated 19th century

Illustration showing Humphry Davy using electrical decomposition to discover potassium and sodium (1807-8). Sir Humphry Davy (1778 - 1829), British chemist and inventor, best remembered for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.

Vintage photograph. Thomas Edison Inventing the Incandescent Lamp in His Lab at Menlo Park, New Jersey American History Illustration

Audio-typing from a wax cylinder made on a bell and Tainter gramophone.

Worker in lamp industry in Berlin, assembler, Germany, 1890 / Arbeiter in der Lampenindustrie in Berlin, Monteur, Deutschland, 1890, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Illustration depicting the preparation of a sheet of copper for etching. A sheet of polished copper was coated with varnish and then coated with a thin layer of carbon by smoking. The picture was stretched on this surface and the sheet was then placed into a bath of concentrated nitric acid. Dated 19th century

Cutting out steel pen nibs from strips of metal. London, 1851

Cooke & Wheatstone's double needle telegraph. The letters of the alphabet and a variety of conventional signals; were indicated by single and combined movements of the galvanometer needles. The operator worked the instrument by manipulating the two handles at the bottom and an alarm bell was housed in the upper casing and was used to signal the beginning of a message.

Torch and gas lamp, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.

An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.

New York telephone subscriber making call through operator at telephone exchange. Apparatus in picture used an Edison transmitter and a 'pony-crown' receiver (being held to subscriber's ear on right). Wood engraving, Paris, 1883.

Board of the Encyclopedia of Diderot and Alembert (PL. XIV) - Printing, the operation of printing and plan of the press B�nard / podman. Board of the Encyclopedia of Diderot and Alembert (PL. XIV) - Printing, the operation of printing and plan of the press. Etching.

Chemist holding up a flask at a table in a laboratory. With mortar and pestle, flasks, pots, furnace and still. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821.

Cartoon with a stork and buy Ballot, 1863, 1863 print Cartoon in which a stork to Prof. dr. Buys Ballot on the Royal Meteorological Observatory in Utrecht confesses that he was still right with his weather forecasts. See also the previous plate no. 4. Plate appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 12, 21 March 1863. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper shore-birds and wading-birds: stork. Utrecht

Central Telegraph Establishment; London; showing various instruments in use. Wheatstone needle telegraphs at top left and right and his automatic telegraph top centre.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) in his laboratory. 1814. Lavoisier, French chemist is at a distillation furnace and through the open door can be seen the guillotine, a reminder that he was executed during the French Revolution. From 'Encyclopedia Londinensis'. (London, 1814). Engraving.

Charles Jackson (1805-1880) experimenting on himself with ether. From Louis Figuier Les Merveilles de la Science, Paris, nd. c1870.

Cartoon with a stork and buys ballot, 1863; Amendous honorable. Cartoon in which a stork to Prof. dr. Buys Ballot on the Royal Meteorological Observatory in Utrecht confesses that he was right with his weather forecasts. See also the previous album no. 4. Plate appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 12, 21 March 1863.

Weaving workshop in Lyon. - Drawing Jahandier, after Victor Grilat, vintage engraving. Weaving workshop in Lyon. - Drawing Jahandier, after Victor Grilat, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1875. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679637

Illustration showing removing boots with the fox-hunter's boot- jack, after a day's hunting. , London, (ca 1880).

Acoustic experiments, verification of the laws of sound reflection. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Ilustración Artística 1882

Examining patient's thorax using X-ray tube and fluorescent screen. X-ray tube (on tripod) is set at reqauired height and patient stands directly in front of it. In front of patient, operator holds specially coated paper screen. When X-rays fall on paper, coating fluoresces, leaving as shadows those dense portions of thorax, such as bones, which absorb X-rays. Engraving, Leipzig, 1903. Many who worked with early x-rays suffered the effects of over-exposure to radiation.

Exhibition of hypnosis given by Irish physician using the pseudonym 'Dr Stanley' at the Hotel Metropole, London, under the auspices of members of the medical profession. Subject going into a hypnotic trance. From 'The Illustrated London News' 1891.

Wilhem Conrad Roetgen (1845-1943), físico y médico alemán, descubridor de los rayos X, efectuando unas pruebas en su laboratorio. Grabado de 1897.

Engraving depicting a young woman using a gas reading lamp. The shade was supported on a tubular frame which carried the gas to the burner. Dated 19th century

Atmospheric pressure on a liquid, vintage engraving. Old engraved illustration of Atmospheric pressure on a liquid by man.

Illustration of Edison's recording apparatus in use. The apparatus was used for making recordings on a wax disc, showing the clockwork mechanism housed in the stand under the disc. Dated 19th Century

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Artist: Unknown

An engraving depicting a man using a stereoscope, a device by which two photographs of the same object taken at slightly different angles are viewed together, creating an impression of depth and solidity. Dated 19th century

'The Jeweller sitting at his workbench surrounded by his equipment. Hand-coloured woodcut from ''The Book of English Trades'', London, 1823.'

Fortune Made, vintage engraving. Fortune Made, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10659785

The talking machine manufactured by Faber, Paris, France, illustration by Baude from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1767, Volume LXIX, January 6, 1877.

Caption: Repro from Scientific Americanfig 1. Neg.nr: B7396Fig 2. NEG.NR: B7397 Both figures represent a hole board machine

Headpiece from the Rev. J.G. Wood's 'The Boy's Modern Playmate' - Science as an educational study for boys. Dated 19th century

Potter making a clay vessel on a wheel driven by a labourer turning a crank. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818.

firemen reports the outbreak of a fire using a fixed telephone in Paris 1901

Caption: Repro from Scientific Americanfig 1. Neg.nr: B7396Fig 2. NEG.NR: B7397 Both figures represent a hole board machine

The ideal scientist - interested in the old as well as the new, anatomy as well as astronomy, the laws of chance and of mathematics, the skill of chess, the hues of a rose Date: 1931

Engraving depicting Michael Faraday in his laboratory at the Royal Institute. Michael Faraday (1791-1867) an English scientist. Dated 19th century

Illustration depicting 'bertillonage' which was originally, a system for the identification of criminals making use of anthropometric measurements including head size, arm span, scars, distinguishing features and the like. Named after the inventor Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914) a French police officer and biometrics researcher. Dated 19th Century

Acoustic experiments, transverse vibrations of a sound string. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Ilustración Artística 1882

Dogs in cages inside laboratory of Louis Pasteur

Drawing a landscape using a portable camera obscura in the form of a tent. From Dionysius Lardner 'The Museum of Science and Art', London, 1855

Spinners and stocking makers: interior view, a spinning wheel and a stocking machine. Engraving.

1640s THE ALCHEMIST LABORATORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES ATTEMPTS TO TURN BASED METALS INTO GOLD FROM PAINTING BY DAVID TENIERS 1649

Cartoon commemorating the centenary of Michael Faraday's birth, and his contributions to the development of electricity

Robert Koch (1843-1910). German microbiologist Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1905.

Historical illustration from the 19th century, depiction of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, 1769 - 1859, a German naturalist

Engraving depicting the use of a reduced voltage voltanic pile to treat a mentally-ill patient. Dated 19th century

THOMAS ALVA EDISON With his Gramophone. Date: 1847 - 1931

Illustration depicting an astrologer working out the influence of Jupiter by Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) a French astronomer and author. Dated 19th Century

Engraving depicting a kitchen scene showing a range manufactured by Henry Goddard of Nottingham. The meat screen for roasting a joint is seen hanging in front of the fire over a pan to catch the juices. Dated 19th century

Dr. Alfred Swaine Taylor (left) and a colleague, performing the Marsh test on samples taken from the body of John Parsons Cook. The two were looking for traces of arsenic and antimony.1856

Engraving depicting an experiment that demonstrates the centre of gravity. Forks and cork from a unit whose centre of gravity is fixed over the points of support. The bottle can be tilted without disturbance. Dated 19th Century

Illustration of an Edison Phonograph used to learn languages. Left: Recording the voice. Right: listening to the recording. 1893

Magic lantern.

An archetypal scientist, with a flowing beard and surrounded by apparatus, studies a sample of Cadbury's Cocoa; he of course concludes that it is the finest available. Date: circa 1890

Kitchen scene showing range manufactured by Henry Goddard of Nottingham.

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, at his desk in 1882 (1883). Artist: Unknown

Illustration showing making pillow lace. The light of the candle is condensed by passing it through a. glass globe filled with water. From The Graphic, London, 1871

History of music. New York, United States. A "prima donna" singing by using Edison's phonograph receiver. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1878.

Laboratory in the Anton Dohrn zoological station

'The Optician and Mathematical Instrument Maker. Around him are a telescope, quadrant, barometer, armillary sphere. Hand-coloured woodcut from ''The Book of English Trades'', London, 1823.'

Illustration showing stamp collector soaking used stamps from their envelopes. French 1891

Osborne's Copying Camera, 1866. Artist: Unknown

Clanny's second blast safety lamp of 1816.

According to inventor/ publisher Hugo Gernsback, making people invisible is possible, using radiation similar to X-rays, based on the research of Steans Date: 1921

Engraving depicting Adam's static electric machine being used to give a child mild shocks for supposedly therapeutic purposes.

France, Paris, Municipal chemical laboratory in Paris

Kitchen and utensils, engraving from the EncyclopÄdie, great French 18th century encyclopaedia edited by Diderot and d'Alembert

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