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Description: | The idea of the trade card as a brightly coloured collectable picture came from America in the nineteenth century. In Britain trade cards had been usually black and white despite the arrival of multicoloured cards in Europe during the 1880s. The cigarette card and other 'collectables' result from the multicoloured trade cards. This card features Sir Charles Wheatstone who patented the British electric telegraph in partnership with Sir William Fothergill Cooke (electrical engineer). Although others developed the technology separately, including Samuel Morse in America, Wheatstone and Cooke were the first to make the system useful for the public and they demonstrated it successfully in 1837. The card also depicts a telegraph boy who would often deliver the messages to private addresses. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | technology social history trade communication Sir Charles Wheatstone portrait | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1930-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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