electric

57 photos tagged electric, from 16 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

9
1862
2013

 

Where were these photos tagged?

40% of these photos are geotagged.

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

Members using this tag

Photos

A selection of photos tagged electric:

Loading photos…

See more on flickr.com →

Recent uploads

The last upload was September 2025.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos:

King Street, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum

  • 1kevin2 said:
    There's a slot for the tram cable-grip but also overhead wires!
  • Norm Rigney said:
    More like 1905!
  • covid convict said:
    Looks like Gordon Mare is licensee of the Supreme Court Hotel, NW cnr King/Phillip Sts...per the digitised newspapers, Mare was licensee from 1st June 1904 to 2nd August, 1906... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14638268 - SMH, 2nd June, 1904...'Water Licensing Court'...license transferred from William Hamilton to Gordon Mare... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228474915 - the Australian Star, 3rd August, 1906...'Publicans' Transfers'...license transferred from Gordon Mare to Ernest D. Litchfield.

December 1, 1963

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    I was always fascinated by these and wondered how they could tell them apart? Imagine the chaos if he had a few jars on when operating these???
  • Robert Lesti said:
    When my father was young, he did the same work.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Robert Lesti Careful and skilled work, I would imagine and Swordscookie sober work!!
  • Swordscookie said:
    I was just kidding about the drink though you can be sure it happened, if caught instant dismissal! These guys were so used to things and had plates on the critical ones to tell them what was what and where they went. I remember wathcing some of them in action and they looking like conductors of orchestra's they were so good at their work.
  • Patrick Castelli said:
    I've got a photo of my great uncle David in the same environment and in the exact same position when he worked for British Rail in Dumfrieshire!

C.P. Steinmetz (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    I blogged about Charles Proteus Steinmetz here, last time there was a photo of him in the uploads: disstud.blogspot.com/2011/01/cp-steinmetz-loc.html So, same guy:
  • Al said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
  • Howard33 said:
    Easily recognizable. He had no neck. But he was a really smart guy.
  • Art Siegel said:
    Though the date written on the negative is 3/4/22, the medal he is wearing is from an electrical engineering convention in Cincinnati in August, 1915.
  • Arden said:
    thank you randeclip and pennylrichardsca for the information about Charles Proteus Steinmetz. We will add more details to the image description.