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Sir Frederick Abel (1827 - 1902), English chemist and inventor. Date: 1890
Percy PilcherPercy Sinclair Pilcher (1866 - 1899), British inventor and pioneer aviator
Percy Pilchers fatal flight 1899Photographs showing Pilcher ready to start and in mid flight on his invention the Gliding machine. On 30th September 1899, the weather was wet and stormy
POOR INVENTOR AT WORKA scruffy, poor inventor is immersed in his work while his wife and daughter try to warm themselves at the stove - will they ever get rich? Date: 1886
Nikola TeslaNIKOLA TESLA American electrician and inventor, born in Croatia of Serbian parents; seen here lecturing to scientists in Paris Date: 1856 - 1943
JOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD French inventor of the Jacquard loom, explains to Napoleon the principles of his invention Date: 1752 - 1834
Aloys Senefelder - ChereauAloys Senefelder (1771 - 1834) - Prague-born German inventor of lithography, depicted in his workshop demonstrating his process
Jacques de Vaucanson (1709 - 1782) French inventor, notably of automata; here, he astonishes his servant with a mechanical flute-player
Ludwig L ZamenhofDr LUDWIG L ZAMENHOF German linguist, inventor of ESPERANTO which he hopes will become an international auxiliary language Date: 1859 - 1917
SIR WILLIAM ARMSTRONGSIR WILLIAM GEORGE ARMSTRONG, Baron Armstrong Engineer, inventor and arms manufacturer Date: 1810 - 1900
FULTON (1765 - 1815)ROBERT FULTON American inventor; in Paris 1797-1806 he invents a submarine but fails to interest Napoleon Date: 1765 - 1815
Fragment of a work produced by GutenbergFragment of an historical work produced by Gutenberg on his first printing press. Date: 1455
Mouchots solar-powered motor Date: 1927
Solar panels on a house, 1920sSolar panels on a domestic house Date: 1929
John Logie Baird (1888 - 946), Scottish inventor, Invented the television. Date: 1926
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885a'1959) - English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial CollegeSir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885-1959) - English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the octane rating to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II
Dole, France - Birthplace of Louis PasteurDole, a commune in the Jura department in the Franche-Comte region in eastern France - the Birthplace of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French biologist
Dreamland with Chevalier Ernest Thorn (22nd September 1853 -21st May 1928) was a touring magician and inventor from Austria
Anaximander (610 546 BC) with a sundial. Roman mosaic. 3rdAnaximander (610- 546 BC). Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. Anaximandder with a sundial
Samuel Crompton - 2SAMUEL CROMPTON Engineer, inventor of the spinning mule. Date: 1753 - 1827
Thomas Edison / YoungTHOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man Date: 1847 - 1931
Arabian flat astrolabe from 10th century. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Galileo Museum. Proc: SPAIN
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Oil
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 15 September 1859) - English mechanical and civil engineer. Designer and builder of dockyards, the Great Western Railway
Eugene Turpin, inventor of turpinite, WW1Eugene Turpin, French inventor and chemist who in 1884, first discovered melinite (picric acid) which produced the worlds first explosive shells
James Watt (1736 - 1819), Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer
Thomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor and businessman. Date: 1917
John Kemp StarleyJOHN KEMP STARLEY inventor of the safety bicycle [do not confuse with James Starley who invented spoked bicycle wheels !) Date: 1855 - 1901
Sir WIlfred StokesSir Wilfred Stokes (1860-1927) - Between 1915 and 1918 Stokes worked for the inventions branch of the Ministry of Munitions
Joseph SwanSir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), English chemist, inventor and industrialist. As well as inventing the dry plate photographic process
Balloon Project 1785French project for a dirigible balloon : by an unidentified inventor
The Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi (1318-1388). Used to determine the position of planets according to he Ptolemaic theory of the Universe. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
Gionitus. Inventor of Astronomy, (1334-1336). The exagonal pGionitus. Inventor of Astronomy, (1334-1336). From the workshop of Andrea Pisano. The exagonal panels of the campanille of Florence Cathedral. Italy
Thomas Edison / After MoraTHOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man Date: 1847 - 1931
Joseph-Marie JacquardJOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD French inventor of loom, using punched cards Date: 1752 - 1834
Nicolas AppertNICOLAS APPERT French inventor of food processing Date: 1750 - 1841
Joshua Heilmann, German textile innovatorJoshua Heilmann, German innovator in textile manufacture. He invented the first machine for combing cotton, and helped to revolutionise the embroidery industry
MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819-1868). American dentist that considered himself as the inventor and revealer of the use of ether for surgical anesthesia
NIEPCE, Joseph-Nicephore (1765-1833). French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography. Engraving
MEUCCI, Antonio (1808 - 1889). Italian inventor of the telephone. Meuccis telephone. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
Persian astrolabe from 17th century. FRANCE. ΌE-DE-FRANCEPersian astrolabe from 17th century. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM)
Planispheric astrolabe. 1569. Manufactured in golden brass by Gualterus Arsenius, disciple of the dutch astronomer Regnier Gemma Frisius (1508-1555). Metals. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris
Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath RobinsonThe inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger
Bernard PalissyBERNARD PALISSY French inventor of pottery technology, harassed for being a protestant but honoured by posterity. Date: 1510 - 1589
Millican Dalton looking toward Derwentwater from BorrowdaleDerwentwater from High Lodore, Borrowdale, Lake District, Cumbria, England. This card features Millican Dalton (1867-1947), famous outdoors man
Flight carried out by one of the Wright brothers plane models. Engraving
Daguerreotype (1839). FRANCE. Paris. Conservatoire National des Arts et M鴩 ers (National Conservatory of Arts and Trades)
S. F. Cody and War KiteSamuel Franklin Cody, British- American aviator and inventor of the famous war kite, an early type of aeroplane and communication device