Colonel Crompton arc street lamp light in Chelmsford home to United Kingdom's first electrical engineering works


Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton ( R E B ) a pioneer of electric lighting and public electricity supply systems designed and oversaw the installation of an arc lamp system in UK. Crompton and Company were the UK's first electrical engineers and by the 1890s were installing generating and lighting systems throughout the country and in Europe


Size: 4088px × 6144px
Photo credit: © Yon Marsh / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: arc, bell, blue, bright, britain, cast, chelmesford, chelmsford, city, classic, close, colonel, crompton, dawn, daytime, decorations, decorative, designed, details, developments, discharge, domestic, dusk, dynamic, electric, electrical, electricity, enclosed, engineering, essex, evelyn, experimental, glass, great, historical, home, idea, improved, industrial, installation, invention, iron, kingdom, lamp, lamppost, leading, light, lighting, marconi, museum, original, ornate, overhead, oversaw, painted, pattern, pioneer, post, public, raised, regimental, rookes, royal, sky, source, space, standard, street, sunshine, supply, system, systems, uk, united, version, victorian, works, world