Queen Victoria Product:Postcard Plate 1 from the monograph

Plate 1 from the monograph Die Gattung Torpedo in ihren naturhistorischen antiquarischen Beziehungen [The natural history and antiquarian relations of the genus Torpedo]

through which an electrical current was passed but without light or discharge in the vacuum gauge

'Portrait of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'

James Prescott Joule was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1850

Queen Victoria Product:Postcard Plate 1 from the monographQueen Victoria, 1859. Victoria (1819 1901) succeeded her uncle, William IV, to the throne in 1837. Her reign, the longest of any British monarch to date, saw the peak of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire into the world's pre eminent power.