Go back to article: Technologies of Romance: Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk ♂ to a Telegraph Clerk ♀: the material culture and standards of early electrical telegraphy

Figure 5

Lithograph depicting Sir William Robert Grove in the mid 1800s alongside a colour photograph of a Grove battery of five cells from 1895

© Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

Left: Science Museum object 1980-517, Sir William Robert Grove (1811–1896): Lithograph by Bosley, after a daguerreotype by Claudet

Right: Science Museum object 1895-14, Grove battery of five cells, 1895

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/191201/016