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May 2017

Godfrey Hector Wire – Electrical Engineering in Glasgow in the 1930s/1940s

The image above shows Godfrey Hector Wire in 1930. Godfrey was an electrical engineer who spent most of his working career in Glasgow and was a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). We have just received a donation... Continue Reading →

Charles and Edward Gimingham – Light Bulb Pioneers

The IET Archives has just received a donation of papers and photographs, mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that originally belonged to two highly capable brothers called Charles and Edward Gimingham. They both worked at a senior... Continue Reading →

EMESCO – the history of an electrical & radio engineering business

George Edward Mortley (1880-1974), an engineer, inventor and musician, owned his own company, G E Mortley and Co in the early part of the 20th century. When Walter Sprague was brought into the business in 1921, the company became G... Continue Reading →

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