Ingenious Collection

The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by
The difficult problem of how to enjoy games and field sports when you live in a block of flats has triumphantly solved. The sixth in the series of Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson

An Ideal Home No. I by William Heath Robinson
The first in the series of the Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson. The illustrations from The Sketch depict ingenious space creating ideas for the spatially challenged home

Palenque Xtraterrestrial
Carving at PALENQUE, Mexico, which has been interpreted by ingenious theorists as depicting an ancient astronaut in a rocket- powered spacecraft

A Decided Catch by William Heath Robinson
The Whitebait cycle, an ingenious contraption necessitated by the exorbitant charges for hire of boats at the seaside this season

Ending in Smoke by Heath Robinson
An ingenious smoke screen spreader for preventing embarrassing situations when the bathroom lock is out of order. Hilarious invention by the inimitable Heath Robinson allowing complete discretion for

When Germany Surrenders her U-Boats by Heath Robinson, WW1
Why not use the enemy craft for peaceful sport? Ramming rabbits in the Balearic Islands. An inventive suggestion from the ingenious mind of William Heath Robinson for German U-boats following the end

Nice Beach Postcard / 1920
Ingenious machines enable bathers to go a few metres out to where the Baie des Anges is deep enough for plunging or diving

Bus Conductor
The bus conductor punches the tickets of his passengers, using the ingenious device which issues the right ticket for the individual requirements of each and all

A Lincolnshire Handicap by Heath Robinson
A race between cranes at the test ground of excavation specialists, Ruston-Bucyrus, who commissioned the ingenious Heath Robinson to draw a number of comical engineering drawings for a booklet

Edisons Vitascope
This was one of Edisons several ingenious but ultimately impracticable attempts to invent the motion picture

French Foldaway Bed
The American Combined - This ingenious item for small apartments is a foldaway bed which seems a conventional settee during the day, but at night turns into a bed !

Godwins Project
FRANCIS GODWIN An ingenious method of flying by harnessing trained birds, who would tow the intrepid aviator even so far as the Moon

Don Quixote book cover
The new book cover for the new version of Don Quixote. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Spanish writer. Author of Don Quixote. Portrait, detail. Illustration by Jose Cebrian. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana

Uncrossing the Crosses on a Hot + Bun
A contraption for removing the cross on a hot cross bun left over from Easter. Date: 1922

Mr Goldsworthy Gurney's tractor, drawing a carriage as a kind of trailer, has the advantage that if it breaks down, horses can be harnessed to the back bit. Date: 1829

William Henry James project is just one of many ingenious devices whereby the power of steam is harnessed to road transportation. Date: 1828

PLUTO Memorial Port en Bessin Normandy
PLUTO - Pipe Line Under The Ocean was an ingenious method of supplying the Allied Forces with fuel from a main base at Southampton. The idea is said to have been that of Lord Louis Mountbatten

An Indian grass cutter with ingenious grass container Date: circa 1810

HOME MADE CLOTHES RACK
A home-made drying rack, made from coat hangers and light rods, an ingenious way of drying underwear etc. in the days before tumbledryers. Date: 1930s

CHILDREN AT A PUMP
Two children fetch water from a pump - note the ingenious use of a hoop Date: late 19th century

HIGH SPEED IN LOW GEAR
High speed on low gear An American motorist takes two friends for a ride - note the ingenious seat on the running board (and shes not even strapped in !) Date: 1922

In the Stretching Sheds of an Ox-Tail Soup Factory. War-Time Economies from William Heath Robinson including an ingenious idea for making the ingredients for oxtail soup go further. Date: 1918

G Sparagnapane Novelty Christmas crackers
Page from a catalogue advertising the various ingenious novelty Christmas cracker boxes available from G Sparagnapane and Co in the form of a piano, cottage, tram, submarine, train and fire engine

WE DAREN T WASTE IT by W. Heath Robinson
A variety of ingenious inventions and machines designed to help people cope and keep cool during an August heatwave. Please note

Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616). Engraving by G
Don Quixote. Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). Engraving by Gustave Dore, 19th century. Colored

The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Scene with Don Quixote. Pisan engraving of a drawing by Gustave Dore (1833-1883). Colored

Neon Tube Oscillator
A Neon Tube Rhythmic Oscillator, an ingenious instrument to enable testing of telephonic equipment to be carried out direct from the telephone exchange. Date: March 1933

British Michelin Prize
Some of the ingenious devices in the cockpit area of Mr Codys aeroplane, which won the British Michelin Prize for the longest flight over a marked course (189.3 miles) Date: 31 December 1910

American barb trousers, WW1 cartoon, Heath Robinson
American barb trousers. For enabling troops to extricate themselves from wire entanglements. Another ingenious idea from the imagination of William Heath Robinson Date: 1918

Rickshaw scene made from used postage stamps, China. Date: circa 1905

War-Time Economies Doing without Braces, WW1 Heath Robinson
War-Time Economies - A Sensible Way of Doing Without Braces. Another ingenious idea from William Heath Robinson, who suggests a strong magnet as an alternative to braces in order to keep ones

Suffragette Toy Votes for Women. A suffragette with votes for women flag is pushed along by a policeman in this ingenious mechanical toy

The Corner Grab Crane by Heath Robinson
The Corner Grab Crane for working round corners - a valuable suggestion by Mr W. Heath Robinson now under consideration by Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd

The Cow and Plate Polecat Trapper
Another ingenious idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson, the gadget king, for a cow and plate pole-cat trapper on the Catskill Mountains

The Ice Hole Clam Spearer by Heath Robinson
An ingenious, though perhaps rather complicated device to catch clams through ice in the frozen north, part of a series of drawings in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News entitled

The Chipmunk Bagger by Heath Robinson
Ingenious contraption for use in the wilds of Brazil, a chipmunk bagger, part of a series by William Heath Robinson in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News called Very Patent Aides to Sport

William Heath Robinson with a character created by him
Photograph of William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), from a piece in the Bystander of 1924 which also included some of his illustrative contemporaries, such as H. M. Bateman and A. K. Macdonald

Prohibition Stunt
During the Prohibition era in the U.S.A. drinkers had to go to great lengths to think of new and ingenious ways and places to hide their booze! Date: 1930s

Compact / Lipstick Holder
Ingenious comapct with the mirror concealed in the lid and space for two lipsticks within the large silk tassel. Date: circa 1920

Snow Mail Van
An ingenious mail van, fitted with skis to cope with winter snow and adverse weather conditions! Date: early 1930s

SPAIN. Toledo. Ceramics. The Don Quixote

Hot Dog by William Heath Robinson
An ingenious central heating device for bathing on chilly morning of the early part of the season. A smug and rather rotund gentleman tests out a typically convoluted Heath Robinson invention

A Seaside Snap Shot by William Heath Robinson
Ingenious method of overcoming the difficulty of taking ones own photograph by bathing devised by the gadget king, and master of silly ideas, William Heath Robinson. Date: 1927

Cleaning Kitchen Floor
An ingenious housewife saves her back by cleaning her kitchen floor with a cloth and a sweeping brush. Date: 1940s

Rome / Colosseum C1820
An ingenious cutaway view which shows both the outward appearance and the internal construction Date: circa 1820

Clean air from smokers / W H Robinson
An ingenious device to prevent a cars cabin from filling with smoke from a drivers cigar or cigarette, by means of pipework and a chimney

The Unowheel car / W H Robinson
The Unowheel car, for reducing tyre troubles. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

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