Invention Collection (page 5)

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874 - 1937), Irish-Italian inventor and electrical engineer. Marconi photographed with his wireless invention, telegraphy instrument. Date: 1901

Patent Applied For, Heath Robinson WW1 cartoon
The Kitchener Boche-Bayoneter - an airy invention by William Heath Robinson. An uncharacteristically brutal invention suggesting that a trench sized board covered with bayonets be lowered

Illustrated London News, Harrild & Sons roller printer 1885 Illustrated London
A Souvenir from The Illustrated London News, patent printing machine at the International Exhibition of Inventions. Date: 1885

Reads patent garden watering engine 1851
Reads patent garden watering engine, exhibited at the Crystal Palace in 1851, demonstrated here in a real garden. Date: 1851

SPEAKING WATCH (INSIDES)
A watch designed by M.Sivan, which contains a miniature Edison phonograph, allowing it to speak the time, by reading off a rubber disc. Date: 1894

RICHS FAMILY / HOGARTH
JOHN RICH: Theatrical Manager & Actor credited with the invention of the pantomime with his wife Mrs Stevens & their 4 children at his villa at Cowley, Middlesex. Date: 18th century

RICHS VILLA / HOGARTH
JOHN RICH: Theatrical Manager & Actor credited with the invention of the pantomime with his wife Mrs Stevens & their 4 children at his villa at Cowley, Middlesex. Date: ?1682 - 1761

JOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD French inventor of the Jacquard loom, explains to Napoleon the principles of his invention Date: 1752 - 1834

Sending a message over the tickertape circuit
A woman sending a message containing coffee quotations over the tickertape telegraph circuit. Date: 1891

Fragment of a work produced by Gutenberg
Fragment of an historical work produced by Gutenberg on his first printing press. Date: 1455

Concert Mecanique, invented by M Richard
A Concert Mecanique invented by Monsieur Richard and demonstrated in the Royal Library. It consists of three automata, playing keyboard, violin and cello

Kempelins Automaton Chess Player
Wolfgang von Kempelins Automaton Chess Player. It was created in Germany, was widely exhibited, and eventually reappeared in New York in 1845. Date: 1769

Early model of a Remington typewriter
An early model of a Remington typewriter. Date: 1877

Futuristic powered roller skating
A vision of futuristic powered roller skating in the year 2000. Each skate has a motor attached. Unfortunately, it doesnt stop people falling over -- time to invent the airbag. Date: 1899

Futuristic hydroplane
A futuristic hydroplane, skimming along the surface of the sea. Date: 1899

Futuristic train travel, Paris to Peking
This is how you will travel from Paris to Peking in the year 2000 - on a high speed monorail travelling at intercontinental velocity! Date: 1899

Futuristic dictation machine
A futuristic dictation machine, which allows a businessman to dictate his correspondence without the need for a secretary. Date: 1899

Futuristic telescope for astronomy
An astronomer at work, using a futuristic machine that will display the stars and planets on a table top. Date: 1899

Futuristic recorded message
A futuristic recorded message, brought on a tray by a servant. Date: 1899

Futuristic aerial tennis
A futuristic game of aerial tennis, which requires the net to be set very high. Date: 1899

Dreamland with Chevalier Ernest Thorn (22nd September 1853 -21st May 1928) was a touring magician and inventor from Austria

Voltaic pile by alessandro Volta. Colored engraving
Voltaic pile invented by the italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827). Colored engraving

USA. Old bicycle. 19th century engraving. Colored

Rontgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923). German physicist. Rontg
Rontgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923). German physicist. Discovered Roentgen rays or X-ray (1895). In 1901 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

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

The trench periscope, WW1
Photographs demonstrating the efficacy of the hyposcope (the landsmans periscope) using one here constructed by Mr C. Baker - an optician of High Holborn

Sperry bomb-sight apparatus 1944
Diagram of a Sperry bomb-sight O-1 used by the United States Army Air Forces (USaF) bombers in World War Two. By manipulating the various control knobs

John Hector Cutten, psychical researcher and writer with a special interest in telepathy and clairvoyance. He served as secretary of the Society for Psychical Research

Sir WIlfred Stokes
Sir Wilfred Stokes (1860-1927) - Between 1915 and 1918 Stokes worked for the inventions branch of the Ministry of Munitions

Lowering the Titanic life boats
A view of the mechanism by which the Titanic lifeboats were lowered, showing a pair of Welin Davits on board. The Davit, an invention by Mr Axel Welin, could be found on most passenger liners

Laurens Jansen Coster
LAURENS JANSEN COSTER or KOSTER Dutch town official of Haarlem, credited by some with the invention of movable type

Robot character from a play by Karel Capek
One of the cast from Karel Capeks science fiction play of 1921, R.U.R. (Rossums Universal Robots). Capek was a Czech writer who made the word robot popular

Comic German postcard -- health spa new invention
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- greetings from Karlsbad -- a grossly overweight man uses a new invention for abdominal support, looking very much like a wheelbarrow. Date: early 20th century

Advert for Evans vacuum cap for growth of hair 1906
Practical invention for Evans vacuum cap, develops a natural and permanent growth of the hair, supplying the apparatus on a sixty day trial, wholly at the expense of the company. 1906

Jules Fischer testing Farman hydroplane, France
Jules Fischer (or Fisher) testing a Farman hydroplane or hydroglider on the River Seine, France, between Sartrouville and Maisons-Laffitte, north west of Paris. Date: circa 1924

Messrs. Scheutzs New Calculating Machine
Messrs. Pehr (Per) Georg Scheutz (1785-1873) and Edvard Scheutzs (of Stockholm, Sweden) New Calculating (Tabulating) Machine

Science Jottings by Dr W. Heath Robinson II
II Testing gold with the uncle magnet at the mint. Typically ridiculous invention by Heath Robinson showing men at the Royal Mint testing gold by holding a pawn brokers sign nearby. Date: 1909

Magnetic evitated train by Emile Bachelet 1914
Diagram for a magnetic evitated trains, primarily the invention is designed for the carrying of mail at the speed of 300 miles per hour

A swarhy brigand makes his first ever telephone call
Painting by Joso Buzan (1873-1936), Croatian academic painter, depicting what appears to be a lively telephone exchange between a stranded Pirate and his Shipmates

Paddle boat. Study by Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century. Mode
Paddle boat. Study by Leonardo da Vinci for a paddle propulsion boat. Windsor, Royal Library, sheet 12650, about 1490. Model by Louis Tursini, 1952

The double catapult. Designed by Leonardo da Vinci. 15th cen
Renaissance. Military Engineering. Drawn in the Atlantic Codex (folio 152 1485-1490) of Leonardo Da Vinci. The double catapult, with bucket and sling. Model

Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Mechanical loom. 15th century
Renaissance. Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Weaving machines. Mechanical loom. 15th century. Model. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Thermo-electric battery Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-189
Thermo-electric battery, invented in 1866 by French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891). Colored engraving

Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891). Pantelegraph. Colored engravin
Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891). Pantelegraph patented in 1861 for sending and receiving images over long distances through the telegraph. Colored engraving

Electric telegraph receiver by Foy and Breguet
Electrical needle telegraph receiver developed in 1842 by Alphonse Foy and Louis Francois Clement Breguet (1804-1883). Back. Nineteenth century colored engraving

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

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Statue. University of Pavia. Italy

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