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Thinking about getting away for the summer? We've trawled through our collections & found some great images of different types of transportation from early electric cars, trolleybus & trams, beautifully lit train carriages to the more unusual dynasphere!
#Transport
A recent researcher enquiry prompted a visit to some of our #electricity supply booklets in our collection. Here are the scanned covers of some of these interesting & informative records that hold so much detail on the local area & industrial development.
#LocalHistory #archives
Read more about our rare book of the month for March, including the recipes it contained and the debate over who wrote it at the IET Archives Blog https://t.co/9YjQzDyLOB
This image is of a louse taken from Robert Hooke's Micrographia. What looks like a stick being held by the louse is actually a human hair.
It's Valentines Day! Flowers and jewellery are two of the most popular gifts. The flower in the image is from Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden and the jewels are from A Treatise on Diamonds by John Mawe.
How can 'grey literature' be so luxurious? Read our blog on electric train lighting to find out how one could travel in style as early as 1900 from a pamphlet documenting the latest technology in electric lighting.
https://t.co/IYmD6F4dHu
These illustrations are from Narrative of a second voyage... by Sir John Ross published in 1835 it details his travels to and around the Arctic regions.
We are delighted to be part of this year's #HistDay21 to showcase our collections on 'Environmental History'. If you would like to see more lovely images from our collections on the theme of 'Science looking at nature' check out our Pinterest board:
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John Mawe was a mineralogist and a member of Royal Geological Society of Cornwall who owned a shop on The Strand. This image is from his 1813 work A Treatise on Diamonds.
This is the title page from The New World of Words by Edward Phillips published in 1678. It is the first folio English dictionary. Phillips was the nephew of the poet John Milton, best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.