Invention Collection (page 13)

Revolving table seat / W H Robinson
Post War Britain. When each of these card players experiences a dull moment in their game, they can swivel on their revolving seat

Legless bridge table / W H Robinson
Post War Britain - Social reform. A legless bridge table, kept in place instead by four balloons, hovers, allowing a more intimate game to be played

Automatic back massager / W H Robinson
Post War Britain: Health and happiness at home. A design based on bicycle mechanics, with seats, pedals and chain, enabling the user to massage his own back; the prelude to a hard days work

Soup tie / W H Robinson
One tug of a cord and this smart tie is swiftly transformed into a napkin allowing the wearer to eat his soup without the worry of unsightly splashes to his suit

Introduction robot / W H Robinson
Post War Britain - Social amenities. The penny-in-the-slot introduction machine for introducing strangers to one another in the park

Bathroom exercise / W H Robinson
Post War Britain: Health and happiness at home. Bathroom exercise for training the legs for running to the station in the morning

Lawn mower protector / W H Robinson
Magnetic device for protecting your mower from shrapnel on the lawn. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Well, I m Blowed
The Heath Robinson Mark VII Extra Special Pneumatic Candle Flame Extinguisher, specially devised for blowing out the candle when the dressing table is a long way from the bed

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, Cornwall. It marks the location of Marconis telegraph station during the pioneering days of

Saint Malo, France - Le Pont Roulant
Le Pont Roulant at Saint Malo - a remarkable track-mounted ferry bridge, enabling the crossing at high tide between the hold of the Exchange, Saint Malo to Naye of Saint-Servan

Bleriot luncheon at House of Commons, London
The famous French aviator, Louis Bleriot, posing with others after a luncheon given in his honour at the House of Commons in London

Poster advertising the telephone
Poster designed by E McKnight Kauffer, encouraging people to use the telephone to make contact with the world

Breuillards device to assist walking
Dr. Charles Breuillards device to assist walking, basically a spring-loaded shoe insert, which aids the raising of the heel

Shooting birds from floating cycle
A sporting gentleman in top hat hunts ducks out in the middle of a lake thanks to his remarkable floating aquatic cycle - useability possibly determinate on the level of swell

Ice-cutting Machine
A late 19th century Steam-powered Ice-cutting Machine operating on the frozen exoanse of the St Lawrence River, Canada. Possibly one of historys more risky undertakings for an apparatus of this

Invention - Carrons Cone
Mr. Carron, an engineer from Grenoble, France, invented a contraption that allowed humans to experience the sensation of a free fall of 300m

Remarkable Life-saving Body Suit
A rather remarkable and very unusual life-saving body suit, comprising of flexible leg and domed upper section, complete with breathing tube and flotation ring

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

New design for train snow plough
A new design for a railway snow plough - the unit on a non snow-bound track showing the interior workings

The Reis Telephone system
The Reis Telephone System (developed by Johann Philipp Reis, 1834 - 1874), demonstrated to the Physical Society in Frankfurt in 1861. Reis speaker worked by magnetostriction

Jointed Steamship
A remarkable concept steamship, jointed in three places, seeminglyto counteract the motion of the sea!

Richard Byrds attempt to fly the Atlantic
The Fokker Trimotor aeroplane, America, in which the American aviator and naval officer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957) attempted to fly the Atlantic non-stop from the USA to France in the hope of

Willows Airship above St Pauls Cathedral, London

Flying and ploughing in Weybridge, Surrey
A primitive aeroplane flies over a field which a man and his team of horses are ploughing. The plane has two bicycle-type wheels on the undercarriage

Winter sports on the Riviera by W. Heath Robinson
The terrible effect of our recent Winter Sports Number on an overworked artist. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

King Alfonso XIII and Wilbur Wright at Pau
Wilbur Wright showing his plane to King Alfonso XIII of Spain at the Ecole d Aviation, Pau, France

Ups-a Daisy
A sensible provision now made on some of the nursery slopes, whereby the plump skier may, with the minimum of effort, regain his or her feet after a fall

Early aviation artefacts
A selection of early aviation artefacts associated with Louis Bleriot and Alcock & Brown. There are two pieces of wood from the plane in which Bleriot flew the English Channel in 1909

A New Winter Sports Attraction
The New Magnetic Ski-de-luxe. Fitted with patent telescopic emergency brake, this invention is ideal for uphill work. Please note: Please note

The Shampoo Chair
A new invention for the convenience of those who prefer to do their own dry shampooing. Robinson was a regular contributor to the Sketch, the Bystander and other ILN titles during his lifetime

Pumping Strokes of Genius
An intelligent forecast of the growth of wayside pumps. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

What every golfer wants
Cartoon, What every golfer wants. Golfers using unusual golf clubs for playing golf in difficult places and their hazards

The Day-Dinner-Dance suit
Cartoon, The Day-Dinner-Dance suit, a quick change evening dress suit for the busy gentleman Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary

Patent Applied For. A new invention discloses their whereabouts. a golfer looks for a lost ball while golfing. Please note

Two seaside stunts
The new Aero-Bathing Machine: A remarkable invention to assist those who - hesitate upon the brink. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

Suited to a tee
Some of the new seasons golfing novelties, golfers using unusual inventions for playing golf; golf braces, putting trousers and the hillside Please note

Flying Mans Parachute, 1874
Engraving showing an invention of 1874, the Flying Mans Parachute

Horse-powered Four Wheel Vehicle, 1921
Illustration showing an invention, patented in 1921, that used a horse to push a four wheel vehicle

Hanways Umbrella / Iln
Jonas Hanway pioneers the first umbrella in London

Thermega electric blanket, used to warm the sheets
Replacing the hot water bottle. Placing a Thermega electric blanket between the sheets. This invention meant that warmth in the bed could be stored for several hours

Photographer holding a Sky-scraper camera on the roof of a
Exaggerated view through a Sky-scraper camera. An invention by the famous New York photographers, the Byron Company, the camera was designed to capture tall buildings at close range

A Thermostatic Nurse
Illustrations of a Thermostatic Nurse, an invention by Mr Hearson. The tank was separated into two compartments; in the lower, a shallow tank of water was used to moisten and heat the air

Baby incubators at the Berlin Exhibition
Dr Lions baby incubators proved to be a great attraction at the Berlin Exhibition. Babies aged between five and eight months old were kept alive in warm temperatures and nourished with drops of milk

X-ray protection cabinet
A photograph of an x-ray in progress where the doctor is protected by a lead lined cabinet. An invention by MM. Radiguet and Massiot

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

The world of tomorrow- some dreams of invention run riot; se
Comical illustration of a scientific idea for the future (note date, 1st April 1905), of a man on the telephone shaking hands with a mechanical type hand protruding from the wall

Suggestions for the homes of tomorrow: High frequency cooker
Photograph of a woman demonstrating the cooker of the future, in which the high frequency waves cook right through the food. The invention was a forerunner of the microwave oven, commonly in use today

A flying roundabout; Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention
Illustration of Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention, which may be described as a roundabout in which the revolving bodies are suspended in the air in cars that are attached by steel wire ropes

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