‘The science of the judgments of the stars’: an early manuscript from the IET’s rare book collection

By Anne Locker, Library and Archives Manager The Hand List of the Library of Magnetic and Electrical Books in the Possession of Silvanus Phillips Thompson is the earliest record we have of the S P Thompson Library, acquired by the...

Caroline Haslett – Editor and a whole lot more!

Guest blog by Isabella Fletcher, University of Leeds This is the third blog in the series written by Liberal Arts students at the University of Leeds to celebrate the EAW’s centenary in 2024. This project has been supported by Professor...

A comprehensive timeline of the EAW branches’ establishment and growth in the UK, 1925-29

Guest blog by Emily Raynor, University of Leeds This is the second of a series of blogs written by Liberal Arts students at the University of Leeds to celebrate the EAW’s centenary in 2024. This project has been supported by...

Notable Women and Early Presidents from the EAW Journals, June 1926 – April 1930

Guest blog by Madeleine Smith, University of Leeds This is the first of a series of blogs written by Liberal Arts students at the University of Leeds to celebrate the centenary of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW) in 2024....

Thunder and lightning

By Anne Locker What connects meteorology, the siege of Paris and the first air mail deliveries? A book in the IET Library’s S P Thompson Study Collection, Thunder and Lightning by Wilfrid de Fonvielle. Thunder and Lightning (1868) The original...

In defence of the supracrepidarian; or, what Thompson did on his holidays

By Anne Locker The electrical engineer and physicist Silvanus Phillips Thompson had an impressive and varied professional career. He became a professor at the University of Bristol in 1878 in his late twenties. He was the first Principal of Finsbury...

Saluting our sisters: a 1960s gathering of international women engineers

By Anne Locker In October 2023, we celebrate Black History Month in the UK, and the theme this year is ‘Saluting our sisters.’ In this blog, we take a closer look at an album of photographs taken at a 1967...

Rare book: Isolario

Isolario, Book of Islands, is the best-known work of Venetian cartographer and miniaturist Benedetto Bordone. It was originally printed in Venice in 1528 by Nicolo Zappino, but the edition held by the IET is from a later printing in 1534....

Tracing an ancestor down the Amazon!

By James Catmur, IET guest blog James Catmur had been in touch with the IET Archives whilst researching his great grand uncle who had been a member of the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers). More research ensued which led to...