Biographies, Features and Online Exhibitions

Biographies	Features	Exhibitions

Biographies

The Archives  holds a wealth of  biographical information on many eminent scientists and pioneers of the electrical engineering profession.

For individual biographies please click on the names below. 

• Alec Reeves
• Alhazen 
• Hertha Ayrton 
• Alan Blumlein
• Henry Boot 
• Sir William Fothergill Cooke 
• Colonel R.E.B Crompton 
• Douglas Chick 
• Sir Humphry Davy
• Gertrude Entwisle 
• Michael Faraday 
• Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
• Sir Arthur Fleming 
• Dame Caroline Haslett 
• Oliver Heaviside 
• Paul Jablochkoff
• John Willoughby Meares
• Robert William Paul 
• Peter Peregrinus 
• Sir Francis Ronalds 
• Famous Scottish Scientists
• Sir William Siemens
• Sir Charles Wheatstone 

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Features

Articles on the history of science and technology based on the Archives' collections:

• Aristotle's De Naturali Auscultatione
• Galvani's Frog Leg's Experiment
• Methodus Geometrica
• Ampere-Faraday Correspondence
• Peace & Goodwill - The Dover-Calais Submarine Telegraph
• Earth the Magnet - William Gilbert's Terrella
• GEC Wembley Laboratories & the Cavity Magnetron
• Charles Merz - 'Lessons form Boston'
• Julius Hyginus - Poeticon Astronomicon
• Guyot - 'The Ingenious Swan'
• Avicenna - Canon of Medicine
• Edward Davy - 'A Miserable Failure'
• Edison's Speaking Telegraph - Notes by William Preece
• The Rose of the Winds
• Morse's Visions' of Submarine Telegraphy
• Lettres Sur L'Electricite - L'Abbe Nollet's dispute with Benjamin Franklin
• Sir Francis Ronalds's Telegraph
• Aldington's Machine
• Lane Fox - 'An Illuminating Letter'
• Secret Machines- A history of British Code-Breaking during World War II

General Histories

• Darjeeling Hydro Power System 
• Paris Electrical Exhibition 1881 
• Great Exhibition 1851

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Online Exhibitions

New online exhibition for 2006:

Domestic Lighting

Arc Lamps	British Radar	Michael Faraday

Women in Engineering	The Science of Sound	Medical Electricity

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