Featured articles
The Archives holds information on many subjects relating to the history and development of science, engineering and technology. The Featured Articles are based on material held within the Archives' collections.
Featured Articles:
- Aristotle's De Naturali Auscultatione
- Galvani's Frog's Leg Experiment
- Methodus Geometrica
- Ampere-Faraday Correspondence
- The French Connection- The Dover-Calais Submarine Telegraph
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Earth the Magnet - William Gilbert's Terrella - GEC Wembley Laboratories and the Cavity Magnetron
- Charles Merz- Lessons from Boston
- Julius Hyginus - Poeticon Astronomicon
- Guyot - 'The Ingenious Swan'
- Avicenna - Canon of Medicine
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Edward Davy - 'A Magnificent Failure' - Edison's Speaking Telegraph - Notes by William Preece
- The Rose of the Winds
- Morse's Visions of Submarine Telegraphy
- L'Abbe Nollet's dispute with Benjamin Franklin
- Sir Francis Ronalds's Telegraph
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Aldington's Machine - Lane Fox - 'An Illuminating Letter'
- Secret Machines- A history of British Code-Breaking during World War II
- Colonel R.E.B Crompton in India
- The Transatlantic Telegraph 1865
- The Young Cricket Trophy
General Histories:
Darjeeling Hydro Power System
Paris Electrical Exhibition 1881
Great Exhibition 1851
Free Archives Exhibition brochures!
If you would like to receive a free copy of one of the IET's Archive brochures that accompanied our past exhibitions held at Savoy Place please contact us and we shall post them out to you. Topics covered are: "Sailing Ship to Satellite- the Transatlantic Connection"; "The BBC at Savoy Place 1923-1932"; "Secret Machines- British Code-Breaking during World War II" and "A new kind of vision- the discovery of X-rays".
