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Businesses (35)
- A Reyrolle & Co Ltd, electrical switchgear manufacturers Hebburn, Durham
- BICC plc, electrical cable manufacturers Prescot, Lancashire;London
- British Electric Transformer Co Ltd, Hayes Hayes, Middlesex
- British Insulite Co Ltd, electrical equipment manufacturers, London London
- British Thomson-Houston Co Ltd, manufacturers of electrical machinery and equipment London
- Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd, Loughborough Loughborough, Leicestershire
- Bungay Gas & Electricity Co Ltd Bungay, Suffolk
- Central Electricity Generating Board London;East Horsley, Surrey
- Decca Navigator Co Ltd, manufacturers of radar and navigation systems Maidenhead, Berkshire
- East Midlands Electricity Board
- Electrical Power Engineering Co (B'ham) Ltd, electrical engineers and electric motor manufacturers Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Evershed & Vignoles Ltd, electrical engineers Chiswick, Middlesex;Acton, Middlesex
- Francis J Mudford Ltd, electrical engineers and manufacturers of electric alarms, bells and instruments London
- General Electric Company plc, manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment London
- George Ellison ltd, manufacturer of electrical switchgear Perry Barr, Warwickshire
- Gilflex Conduits Ltd, electrical conduits Watford, Hertfordshire
- JA Crabtree & Co Ltd, electrical equipment manufacturers Walsall, Staffordshire
- James Kilpatrick & Sons Ltd
- John I Thornycroft & Co Ltd, shipbuilders, engineers and motor vehicle manufacturers Southampton, Hampshire
- Kent Electric Power Co.
- Laurence, Scott & Electromotors Ltd, electrical engineers Norwich, Norfolk
- Lucas & Pyke, electrical engineers, London London
- Management Selection Ltd, industrial consultants London
- Merz & McLellan, consulting engineers Killingworth, Northumberland
- Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co Ltd, manufacturers of electrical goods and equipment London;Manchester, Lancashire
- Midgley Harmer Ltd, electrical engineers Acton, Middlesex
- North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co Wood Green, Middlesex
- Phoenix Fire Office London
- Quinco Ltd, engineering, Blackpool
- Siemens Bros & Co Ltd, manufacturers of electrical cables, wires and batteries London
- Simplex Electric Co Ltd, electrical engineers Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd, London London
- Walters Electrical Manufacturing Co Ltd, electrical engineers London
- Winton Thorpe, Tunnadine & Partners, consulting engineers London
- YearCo Ltd, engineering, London London
Organisations (60)
- Birmingham and District Electric Club Birmingham, Warwickshire
- British Institute of Engineering Technology
- Carey-Gavey Syndicate
- Citizens Band Association
- Electrical Association for Women London
- Electrical Association for Women: Aberdeen branch Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Accrington branch Accrington, Lancashire
- Electrical Association for Women: Aylesbury branch Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Bangor branch Bangor, Caernarfonshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Barnet and district branch Barnet, Hertfordshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Bath branch Bath, Somerset
- Electrical Association for Women: Bexleyheath branch Bexleyheath, Kent
- Electrical Association for Women: Bolton branch Bolton, Lancashire
- Electrical Association for Women: Bristol branch Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Electrical Association for Women: Chelmsford and district branch Chelmsford, Essex
- Electrical Association for Women: Croydon branch Croydon, Surrey
- Electrical Association for Women: Downend branch Downend, Gloucestershire
- Electrical Association for Women: Dundee branch Dundee, Angus
- Electrical Association for Women: Dunfermline branch Dunfermline, Fife
- Electrical Association for Women: Dunoon branch Dunoon, Argyllshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Edinburgh branch Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Electrical Association for Women: Enfield and district branch Enfield, Middlesex
- Electrical Association for Women: Gravesend branch Gravesend, Kent
- Electrical Association for Women: Guildford branch Guildford, Surrey
- Electrical Association for Women: Harrogate branch Harrogate, Yorkshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Hazel Grove and Bramhall branch Hazel Grove, Cheshire;Bramhall, Cheshire
- Electrical Association for Women: High Wycombe branch High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Kirkcaldy branch Kirkcaldy, Fife
- Electrical Association for Women: Lincoln branch Lincoln, Lincolnshire
- Electrical Association for Women: London branch London
- Electrical Association for Women: Middlesbrough Middlesbrough, Yorkshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Northwood and Pinner branch Northwood, Middlesex;Pinner, Middlesex
- Electrical Association for Women: Oxford branch Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Plymouth and district branch Plymouth, Devon
- Electrical Association for Women: Portishead branch Portishead, Somerset
- Electrical Association for Women: Potters Bar branch Potters Bar, Middlesex
- Electrical Association for Women: Preston branch Preston, Lancashire
- Electrical Association for Women: Sale and Altrincham branch Sale, Cheshire;Altrincham, Cheshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Scarborough and district branch Scarborough, Yorkshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Selkirk and district branch Selkirk, Selkirkshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Tamworth and district branch Tamworth, Staffordshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Tenby branch Tenby, Pembrokeshire
- Electrical Association for Women: Uxbridge branch Uxbridge, Middlesex
- Electrical Association for Women: Yeovil branch Yeovil, Somerset
- Institution of Electrical Engineers
- Institution of Electrical Engineers: Newcastle Section Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Institution of Electrical Engineers: North Midlands Centre Graduate and Student Section
- Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers
- Institution of Eletrical Engineers: Southern Centre
- Institution of Manufacturing Engineers
- Institution of Production Engineers London
- International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists
- Islington Metropolitan Borough Council Islington, Middlesex
- London Association of Foremen Engineers London
- London Electrical Engineers (Territorial Army) London
- London Electrical Society London
- Society of Engineers
- Taplow Court Technical Society Taplow, Buckinghamshire
- Verena Holmes Lecture Fund
- Womens Engineering Society London
Persons (118)
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Aldington, John Norman, (1905-1987), Industrial Chemist
- Appleby, Robert , (fl1942-1974), CBE, Fellow of the Institution of Production Engineers
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, (1892-1965), physicist
- Ayrton, William Edward, (1847-1908), Electrical Engineer and Physicist
- Barnett, Alick, (fl 1999), electrical engineer
- Bedford, Leslie Herbert, (1900-1989), electronic engineer
- Birt, William Radcliff, (1804-1881), astronomer
- Boot, Henry Albert Howard, (1917-1983), physicist
- Botting, John, (1926-2010), engineer
- Brett, Jacob, (fl 1845), telegraphic engineer
- Brett, John Watkins, (1805-1863), telegraphic engineer
- Bright, Sir Charles Tilston, (1832-1888), Knight, telegraph engineer
- Bruce, Kenneth, (fl 1978-1994), engineer
- Burford, Basil Charles Roy, (fl 1968-1972), mechanical engineering teacher
- Calverley, John Earnshaw, (1886-1981), electrical engineer, co-inventor of the transverter
- Chick, Douglas Richard, (1916-1978), electrical engineer
- Claxton, Edgar, (1910-2000), electrical engineer
- Clayton, Sir Robert James, (1915-1998), knight, physicist, research engineer
- Coales, John Flavell, (1907-1999), engineer
- Cooke, Edward William, (1811-1880), Marine Painter
- Cooke, Sir William Fothergill, (1806-1879), Knight Electrical Engineer
- Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford, (1889-1952) Knight, politician and lawyer
- Cromarty, Adam, (fl 1945-2017), electrical engineer
- Davy, Edward, (1806-1885), Physician and Electrical Engineer
- Davy, Sir Humphry, (1778-1829), 1st Baronet, physicist
- Duddell, W, (1872-1917), Engineer
- Eckersley, Thomas Lydwell, (1886-1959), Physicist
- Edison, Thomas Alva, (1847-1931), American Electrical Engineer and Inventor
- Edwards, George William, (1909-1998), electrical engineer
- Ellis, Harry Stephenson, (1881-1967), electrical engineer Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland;Bradford, Yorkshire;Southampton, Hampshire;South Shields, Durham
- Fahie, John Joseph, (1846-1934), Electrical Engineer and Historian
- Faraday, Michael, (1791-1867), natural philosopher
- Fitzgerald, George Francis, (1851-1901), Physicist
- Fleming, Sir Arthur Percy Morris, (1881-1960), Knight Electrical Engineer
- Fleming, Sir John Ambrose, (1849-1945), Knight, electrical engineer
- Gammon, Michael Kenneth, (b 1925), engineer at CEGB
- Gassiot, John Peter, (1797-1877), scientific writer
- Gilbert, Thomas Charles, (1888-1958), Industrialist and Electrical Engineer
- Gimingham, Charles Henry, (1853-1890), engineer
- Gimingham, Edward Alfred, (1868-1953), engineer
- Glaisher, James, (1809-1903), astronomer and meteorologist
- Hardwich, Isabel Helen, (1919-1987), Honorary Secretary of the Women's Engineering Society and Research Physicist
- Haslett, Dame Caroline Harriet, (1895-1957), Electrical Engineer
- Hawkins, Charles Caesar, (1864-1938), Electrical Engineer
- Heaviside, Oliver, (1850-1925), Mathematical Physicist and Electrician
- Hedges, Killingworth, (d 1945), Electrical Engineer
- Hendry, Eric Douglas, (d 2008), inventor
- Henniker, Sir Frederick, (1793-1825), Knight Traveller
- Heywood, John, (b 1930), engineer and professor Bray, County Wicklow
- Highfield, John Somerville, (1871-1945), Electrical Engineer
- Hodges, Peggy Lilian, (1921-2008), engineer
- Holmes, Verena, (1889-1964), mechanical engineer and former president of the Womens Engineering Society
- Hopkinson, John, (1849-1898), Electrical Engineer
- Hughes, David Edward, (1831-1900), Electrical Engineer
- Inskip, Robert Andrew, (1917-1999), 2nd Viscount Caldecote
- Irwin, John T, (1879-1968), electrical engineer Londonderry, County Londonderry
- Johnson, Manuel John, (1805-1859), Astronomer
- Johnson, Matthew Henry, (1923-2009), computer scientist
- Jost, Hans Peter, (1921-2016), mechanical engineer
- Joule, James Prescott, (1818-1889), physicist
- Kapp, Gisbert, (1855-1922), electrical engineer
- Kemp, John, (1896-1991), chief cable engineer at STC plc
- Lazarus, Edmund George, (1892-1963), Electrical Engineer
- Lee, John, (1783-1866), antiquary and astronomer
- Lefroy, Sir John Henry, (1817-1890), Knight, General, colonial governor
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, (1851-1940), Knight, physicist
- Lubszynski, Hans Gerhard, (fl 1910-1997), Physicist
- Mance, Sir Henry Christopher, (1840-1926), Knight Electrical Engineer
- Marconi, Guglielmo, (1874-1937), Marchese Marconi Electrical Engineer
- Mcclelland, William, (1873-1971), Electrical Engineer
- Meares, John Willoughby, (1871-1946), Electrical Engineer
- Megaw, Eric Stanley, (1908-1956), physicist, developer of the magnetron
- Melling, Cecil Thomas, (1899-1998), electrical engineer
- Merz, Charles Hesterman, (1874-1940), Consulting Engineer
- Midgley, Albert Henry, (1881-1961), Electrical Engineer
- Moore, Bob, (fl1985-1986), researcher at BT Research Laboratories
- Mortley, George Edward, (1880-1974), engineer, inventor and musician
- Negus, Edgar Walter Dawson, (1910-1997), electrical engineer
- Norman, Sir Henry, (1858-1939), 1st Baronet, journalist, politician and public servant
- Oswald, Thomas, (1920-2014), electrical engineer
- Paterson, Sir Clifford Copland, (1879-1948), Knight, electrical engineer
- Pearce, Sir Standen Leonard, (1873-1947), Knight electrical engineer
- Petrie, William, (1821-1908), Electrical Engineer
- Phillips, John, (1800-1874), geologist
- Platt, Beryl Catherine, (1923-2015), Baroness Platt of Wittle, MP and founding chair and patron, Women Into Science and Engineering (WISE) Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
- Preece, Sir William Henry, (1834-1913), Knight, Knight Electrical Engineer
- Puckey, Sir Walter Charles, (1899-1983), Knight Production Engineer Industrialist and Management Consultant
- Randall, Sir John Turton, (1905-1984), Knight, Knight, biophysicist
- Rawcliffe, Gordon Hindle, (1910-1979), electrical engineer
- Redmond, Sir James, (1918-1999), engineer
- Rhodes, John Wickham, (1920-1996), Electrical Engineer
- Ronalds, Sir Francis, (1788-1873), Knight, electrical engineer and meteorologist
- Rose, Frederick Campbell, (1865-1946), civil engineer
- Ross, Hugh McGregor, (b 1917), computer engineer and historian
- Rue, Warren de la, (1815-1889), chemist and astronomer
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Shaw, Alan, (b 1916), employee at Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co
- Shoenberg, Sir Isaac, (1880-1963), Knight Electrical Engineer and Television Pioneer
- Shotter, George Frederick, (1886-1971), electrical engineer, specialist in electrical measurement instrumentation
- Smith, Frederick John Jervis-, (1848-1911), engineer
- Staite, William Edwards, (d 1854), Electrical Engineer
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist
- Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, (1851-1916), Physicist
- Thomson, Francis Paul, (1914-1998), electrical engineer
- Thomson, William, (1824-1907), Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Tomlinson-Lee, Alyse, (fl 1922-1934), electricty showroom demonstrator
- Trotter, Alexander Pelham, (1857-1947), engineer
- Wainwright, Frank, (1924-2017), electrical engineer
- Walker, Ernest Octavius, (1850-1919), Electrical Engineer
- Watson, Ernest Frederick George, (fl 1958-1988), field engineer
- Watton, Walter Leslie, (1907-2004), engineer South Stoneham, Hampshire
- West, John GodfreyWilson, (fl 1948-2000), consultant engineer
- Wheatstone, Sir Charles, (1802-1875), Knight Physicist
- Williams, Frederick Calland, (1911-1977), engineer
- Williams, Michael G, (fl 1997-2017)
- Young, Arthur Primrose, (1885-1977), Manufacturing Engineer
- Young, J J, (b 1900), electrical engineer
Diaries (18)
- Barclay, Leslie William, (b 1933), radio spectrum and radiowave propagation specialist Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex
- Bennetts, Humphrey Grahame, (fl 1929-1982)
- Calverley, Thomas Earnshaw, (d 2013), electrical engineer
- Churchill, Arthur, Scientist
- Everatt, Eric, (fl 1969-2005), software engineer in missile defence industry
- Finnis, Cecil H, Electrical Engineer
- Fowler, George Vincent, (fl 1866), scientist
- Godfrey, Ronald M, (fl 1943-1986), electrical engineer
- Hamilton, Patrick, Electrical Engineer
- Herries, Maria London
- Howroyd, Denis C, (fl 1970-2015), electrical engineer
- Jamieson, Fife, Electrical Engineer
- Konarek, J, (fl 1924-1967), employee of Standard Telephones & Cables
- Merz, Ernest Leisler, (D1909)
- Orson, Ray W, (fl 1970-1990), CBE and Commercial Officer of The Electricity Council
- Oswald, Thomas, (fl 1950-2000), engineer at STC plc
- Smith, Theophilus, (fl 1869), electrical engineer
- Thomson, WS, (fl 1929-1981), electrical engineer
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (39)
- NRA 39885 John Norman Aldington, businessman and electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 22890 Henry Albert Howard Boot, physicist: corresp and papers on the cavity magnetron link to online catalogue
- NRA 38797 Jacob Brett, telegraphic engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38906 Sir Charles Tilston Bright, telegraph engineer: letter book and corresp rel to West Indies cable link to online catalogue
- NRA 23351 Douglas Richard Chick, electrical engineer: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22341 James Clerk-Maxwell, physicist: corresp
- NRA 38782 William Fothergill Cooke, electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38386 JA Crabtree & Co Ltd, electrical equipment mfrs, Walsall
- NRA 38905 Edward Davy, physician and electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38548 Electrical Association for Women
- NRA 35715 Electrical Power Engineering Co (B'ham) Ltd, electric motor mfrs, Birmingham
- NRA 35716 Evershed & Vignoles Ltd, electrical engineers, London
- NRA 38783 John Joseph Fahie, electrical engineer and historian: corresp and papers
- NRA 39907 Michael Faraday, natural philosopher: corresp and papers
- NRA 38439 Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, electrical engineer: corresp and working papers
- NRA 40846 Thomas Charles Gilbert, industrialist and electrical engineer: business corresp and papers
- NRA 38491 Dame Caroline Haslett, electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38781 Oliver Heaviside, mathematical physicist and electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38904 John Hopkinson, electrical engineer: diary and family corresp
- NRA 39886 Institution of Electrical Engineers
- NRA 20573 Institution of Electrical Engineers: misc accessions
- NRA 20552 Insulite Co Ltd and British Insulite Co Ltd London
- NRA 40848 International Conference of Woman Engineers and Scientists
- NRA 39294 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, physicist: corresp and papers rel to telegraph patents
- NRA 41011 Hans Gerhard Lubszynski, physicist: papers
- NRA 38545 William McClelland, electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38677 Albert Henry Midgley, electrical engineer: personal and business papers
- NRA 22568 Francis J Mudford Ltd, electrical contractors, Holloway, London
- NRA 39884 Sir Henry Norman, public servant: corresp and papers
- NRA 38907 Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38398 Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 40843 Sir Walter Charles Puckey, production engineer, industrialist and management consultant: corresp an
- NRA 38438 Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe, electrical engineer: corresp and working papers
- NRA 38778 Sir Francis Ronalds, electrical engineer and meteorologist: corresp and papers
- NRA 38440 Sir Isaac Shoenberg, electrical engineer and television pioneer: corresp and papers
- NRA 38780 Silvanus Phillips Thompson, physicist: MS collection and corresp
- NRA 38371 Winton Thorpe, Tunnadine & Partners, consulting engineers, London
- NRA 38829 Verena Holmes Lecture Fund
- NRA 38547 Women's Engineering Society
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