Invention Collection (page 10)

The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1
America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air

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

E. Thorp Hicks with his sound educator for helping the deaf
The inventor of the Sound educator, Mr E. Thorp Hincks, pictured with his invention which subjected the ear to the recurrence of sounds whose pitch

Encyclopaedia of Sport - Luring Wild Lap-Dogs
IV - Luring wild lap-dogs by the Mull of Cantire. Another wacky sport from the imagination of William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

Unmanned boat steered by light, war device
An unmanned boat steered by light: a 25, 000 war device. Tested during the First World War before Lord Fisher and Mr Balfour on Penn Pond in Richmond Park

Station centrale des a鲯nefs ࠎotre-Dame (Central
Station centrale des a鲯 nefs ࠎ otre-Dame (Central aircraft station at Notre Dame). Robida drawing for his book Le Vingti譥 Si裬 e (1883)

SMITH, Sir Francis Pettit (1804-1874). English inventor and, along with John Ericsson, one of the inventors of the screw propeller. Engraving

Reconstruction of the steam engine. 1765. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM)

MORSE, Samuel (1791-1872). North American painter and physicist, telegraphs inventor. Morse telegraph receiving station using punched tape Movilleron, early 20th c

TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-1647). Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer. Opera Geom鴲 ica. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

SCHEINER, Christoph (1575-1650). Physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Projecting the image of the Sun through a refracting telescope on to a screen in order to study sunpots. Engraving

Paris Universal Exhibition (Exposition Universelle) of 1900. View of the viaducts with the Trottoir Roulant (Moving walkway) named Rue de l Avenir and the Decauville Electric Railway

Experiments with the phonograph in the Royal Institution, 1878. Professors John Tyndall and W.H. Preece Speaking into Phonograph. Engraving

Portrait of Fulton. Oil
FULTON, Robert (1765-1815). North-American nautical engineer. Inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat

The modern invention - the art of puffing
Slide shows a photograph of a woman looking into a mirror and applying make-up to herself. Part of Box 366. C.1880s

The Zeppalloon by William Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
An ingenious adjustment. Whereby a captive balloon can, at a moments notice, be converted so as to appear like a Zeppelin

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

Johann Faust
Johann Fust (1400-1466) - German printer. He appears to have been the partner of Johann Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing as he was his money-lender

London Underground Station Indicator
A new invention on the Underground Railway in London. After a train leaves a station, a bell rings and the name of the next station appears, keeping passengers informed of their location. Date: 1896

Early experiment in aerial gunnery by Heath Robinson
Another Mystery Revealed - An Early Experiment in Aerial Gunnery - now illustrated for the first time. A rather Heath Robinson attempt at a flying gun for aerial dogfights

How wireless beacons guide ships in the fog
The Marconi invention can determine distance of the ship from the beacon to steer the vessel into a Harbour during foggy weather

Submerged by William Heath Robinson
In an Untersee Realschule: Training a young U-boat pirate to remain under water for long periods. Another humorous wartime scenario involving the dastardly Hun by William Heath Robinson. Date: 1917

Bring the Batman (patented by Germany), Heath Robinson
Bring-The-Batman (Patented in Germany) by William Heath Robinson. Simplicity itself: A device adopted by hun officers for awakening their servants. Date: 1917

A life bag - life saving device, WW1
An ingenious invention by a young Norwegian, Mr John L. Edmund to enable passengers on board ships wrecked or torpedoed to keep afloat until the arrival of help

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

Water-bottle rotary by W H Robinson
Water-bottle rotary for warming the legs of scottish soldiers after a night in the trenches. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

A Trouser Stretch of the Imagination by Heath Robinson
Are you taking care of your summer flannels? A suggestion for preserving the shape of your nether garments in view of the summer holidays

The everlasting fuel, atomic power, by G. H. Davis
The everlasting fuel: atomic power replacing the consumption of hundreds of thousands of tons of coal. The probable compact layout of an atom-powered municipal electricity generating station in

Magnetic mine and counter moves by G. H. Davis
A battle of wits: the magnetic mine and the counter-moves, a battle of wits: new types of mines countered by the Navy. Naval experts versus the enemy

Britains acoustic shell by G. H. Davis
The acoustic shell: Britains ace killer of flying bombs during the Second World War. The British-invented radio proximity shell, which explodes itself when in lethal range of its target. 1945

British science and ingenuity in war by G. H. Davis
How British science and ingenuity contributed to the defeat of the Germans at sea, on land, and in the air. A few of the many weapons, devices and tactics, both offensive and defensive

German inventions for war on land by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war on land. Illustrating the German armys exploitation of scientific and technical inventions during the Second World War. Date: 1945

German inventions for war at sea by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war at sea. Illustrating maritime inventions and tactics introduced by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

Sperry bomb sight in action by G. H. Davis
Precision bombing: the Sperry bomb sight in action during a raid, Second World War. The flight of bombs is controlled by a mechanism guided by a skilled bombardier. Date: 1944

Stereoscopic television pictures by G. H. Davis
Stereoscopic television pictures: a notable British achievement. Three-dimensional pictures across the ether: the latest triumph of the inventor of television. Date: 1942

Flying at the speed of sound by G. H. Davis
Flying at the speed of sound: radical aircraft conceptions in a new era of aeronautics. Explanatory drawings showing how the problem of compressibility is being tackled

How wireless waves guide aeroplanes during bad visibility
Method of directing the pilots of aircraft flying to and from Croydon has been revolutioned by the Marconi directional visual beacon station erected at croydon. WWII

The Multiplex Dragline by Heath Robinson
The multiplex dragline for dragging winding streams - another suggestion by Mr W. Heath Robinson. A complicated excavation machine enabling the operator to drag in curving lines. Date: c.1938

Building Nissen huts for troops, Western Front, WW1
British men building Nissen huts for use by troops, on the Western Front during World War One. The semi-cylindrical Nissen hut was invented by Major Peter Norman Nissen in 1916. Date: circa 1916

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

The Lifelyke stilted giraffe lurer by Heath Robinson
The Lifelyke stilted giraffe-lurer, part of a series called Very Patent Aides to Sport by William Heath Robinson in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Method of saving submarine seamen by G. H. Davis
Our own method of saving submarine seamen. Showing two divers wearing the recently invented copper helmet and waterproof jacket

Europe to America in 45 minutes by G. H. Davis
Not a Wellsian fantasy, but an actual project in preparation by Germany: Europe to America in 45 minutes. Drawings of a long-range rocket designed in Germany during the Second World War

British target-finding invention by G. H. Davis
Bombing through clouds during the Second World War: a British target-finding invention. Illustrating the Gen-Box principle, which sees targets invisible to the human eye. Date: 1944

Magnetic mine by G. H. Davis
The German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a

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