Science & Society Picture Library represents the collections of the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum and the National Media Museum.
Our other collections include the Daily Herald and Manchester Daily Express archives, and the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot and Tony Ray-Jones.
SSPL has over 150 image collections from both within and outside the museums' core collections, containing over 50,000 digital images.
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I moved to Didcot 50 years ago from North London, where I lived for 21 years and got married. I worked at an electronics company, an ... (read more)
Didcot Day Centre
The computer at work was as big as a room - Never worked while I was there! Supposed to bring unit on and off, but never ... (read more)
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My Grandfather served in the Boer War in South Africa and won a medal. My uncle had it but kept it in pawn all his life. ... (read more)
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The city Square looks so magnificent there. I never knew it used to be like this with high columms although the famous owls are already visibly ... (read more)
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Before my mum got a washing machine, she used to spend the Mondays and Tuesdays doing laundry. Like millions of others, having a machine do the ... (read more)
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If I was on a desert island, the TV would be my number one invention to bring with me, if I could. It has transformed our ... (read more)
Tony Robinson
The first automatic clothes dryer was invented by J Ross More. He developed over several decades and it went into production in 1938. The first model ... (read more)
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The first electric hair dryer was invented in 1890 by Alexandre Godefoy, a French salon owner. However, these were 'hood' dryers and it was only in ... (read more)
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When it was launched in 1996, the pocket-sized StarTAC, at just 93g (3.1 ounces), was the world’s smallest phone and the first to operate continuously with ... (read more)
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This electric compression domestic refrigerator no 5534 was made by Kelvinator, Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is an example of the first self-contained electric refrigerators to incorporate ... (read more)
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John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer, succeeded in developing a crude television apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving images over a short distance. The first public ... (read more)
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In 1925 John Logie Baird transmitted the first televised image which was of a human face and comprised just 30 lines of resolution (today's HD televisions ... (read more)
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Photograph showing television experts watching the Baird system transmitting the first BBC broadcast. John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was one of the pioneers of television. In 1929, ... (read more)
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Thor electric washing machine and mangle. These washing machines, made by the Hurley Machine Co of Chicago, were among the earliest to be mechanised (the first ... (read more)
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The microwave oven was invented in 1946 but it was not until the late 1960s that they became more common in homes. This photo shows a ... (read more)
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This contemporary photograph shows the first fully- electronic stored-program computer in operation, the Manchester Mark I Computer. It was built at Manchester University under the supervision ... (read more)
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In 1901, Hubert Cecil Booth invented the first successful vacuum cleaner. He experimented with sucking air, his new machine was more successful than other similar inventions ... (read more)
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The first train arriving at Bounds Green Tube station, London Underground, 6 September 1932. The first train arriving at Bounds Green Tube station, London Underground, 6 ... (read more)
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Steel rings being bolted into position, London Underground, 9 January 1932. The men are at work on the one and a half mile extension to the ... (read more)
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Aldwych Station being used as an air raid shelter, World War Two, c 1940. People resting and sleeping on the platform and track of Aldwych Underground ... (read more)
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Chromolithograph by the Kell Brothers after their original drawing, showing passengers waiting on platforms at Baker Street underground station. A steam train is arriving at one ... (read more)
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Construction of the Metropolitan District Railway, London, 1869. One of a series of photographs by Henry Flather showing the construction, undertaken between 1866 and 1870, of ... (read more)
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One of a series of photographs by Henry Flather showing the construction, undertaken between 1866 and 1870, of the Metropolitan District Railway's (MDR) underground lines between ... (read more)
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Construction of the Metropolitan District Railway, Victoria, London, c 1869. One of a series of photographs by Henry Flather showing the construction, undertaken between 1866 and ... (read more)
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Construction of the Metropolitan District Railway, London, c 1867. One of a series of photographs by Henry Flather showing the construction, undertaken between 1866 and 1870, ... (read more)
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