Sujet
The General Post-Office; The Office Letter Railroad
Légende
The General Post-Office; The Office Letter Railroad, 1844. Worker at the main post office at St Martin's Le Grand in London loading mail on to: 'a kind of tram-way...upon which waggons are drawn by means of a jointed chain worked by a simple crank...Mr. Barrow was the inventor of this mode of transfer'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM20B03_016
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
52,4Mo (3,2Mo) / 31,3cm x 42,0cm / 3691 x 4960 (300dpi)