Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm The authorities were seriously concerned

The authorities were seriously concerned at the prospect of communist uprisings inspired by the Russian Revolution of two years earlier

particularly the perceived pro-Turkish stance taken by the Conservative leader

17 shillings and sixpence

carrying a pair of bellows under his arm

Edison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery Size:M: 50 x 40cm The authorities were seriously concernedEdison's incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery, 1882 (1956). Thomas Alva Edison (1847 1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.