Inventing Collection

Duncan Dunbar Sail Ship
One of several clippers employed on the Australia run by noted ship owner Duncan Dunbar, who is credited with inventing the clipper concept

WILLIAM THOMS Folklorist, credited with inventing the word folklore Date: 1803 - 1885

Sir william Tritton
Sir William Ashbee Tritton (1875 - 1946) Military engineer who was largely responsible for inventing the tank during World War One Date: 1917

Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), English chemist, inventor and industrialist

Cornelis Drebbel
CORNELIS DREBBEL Dutch physician and inventor, spent most of his life in England where he is credited with inventing the first submarine

ANDRE GILL French caricaturist, credited with inventing the enlarged head teachnique used here

Experiments on the phone from Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), to transmit the human voice over long distances. Boston, 1877. United States. 19th-century colored engraving

Marconi strangles Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph snakes
THE INFANT HERCULES Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), strangling the twin snakes of Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph with his new Wireless telegraph system

A wasted life: satire on the invention of tanks, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II chides Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer, for not inventing anything useful, like the armoured tanks of the allies. Date: 1916

Alex. Stef. Popoff
ALEXANDER STEFANOVICH POPOFF Russian physicist and electrical engineer, credited by the Russians with inventing radio, though others disagree. Date: 1859 - 1906

Christian Huygens
CHRISTIAN HUYGENS Dutch physicist, mathematician and astronomer, best known for his work on pendulums, inventing the pendulum clock shown in this engraving. Date: 1629 - 1695

Sir Howard Grubb
SIR HOWARD GRUBB Irish inventor and manufacturer of telescopes and other scientific instruments, famous for inventing the periscope. Date: 1844 - 1931

Portrait of M. Louis Daguerre
A portrait of Louis Jacques Maude Daguerre (1789-1851). The French artist was famed for inventing the Daguerretype in conjunction with Joseph Nicephore Niepce

E Torricelli / Flammarion
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist, inventing the barometer in 1642

Ancient Egypt New Year
ANCIENT EGYPT The new year is sacred to the god THOTH (equivalent of Hermes) who among other useful acts is credited with inventing the calendar

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