Invention Collection (page 6)

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

Newcomen steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. It consisted of a pump designed to reduce water steam in the galleries of mines. Engraving

Phonoplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Engraving

Joshua Heilmann, German textile innovator
Joshua Heilmann, German innovator in textile manufacture. He invented the first machine for combing cotton, and helped to revolutionise the embroidery industry

Gyroscopic Wheel Unicycle of E J Christie
A New Terror of the Road - the quite remarkable invention of Professor E. J. Christie of marion Ohio - a huge Gyroscopic Wheel Unicycle

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

Azurine or Blue Roach -- a fish that didn t actually exist, but still managed to wriggle its way into a few 19th century reference books. Date: 1865

NIEPCE, Joseph-Nicephore (1765-1833). French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography. Engraving

Beaulx abc belles heures. Book peddler. Belongs to the genre le Cris de Paris that illustrates street vendors of Paris. Until the invention of printing

Persian astrolabe from 17th century. FRANCE. ΌE-DE-FRANCE
Persian astrolabe from 17th century. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM)

Planispheric astrolabe. 1569. Manufactured in golden brass by Gualterus Arsenius, disciple of the dutch astronomer Regnier Gemma Frisius (1508-1555). Metals. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris

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

Floating landing strips for aircraft by G. H. Davis
Surface tension seadromes: floating landing strips for aircraft. A revolutionary British invention: a floating aerodrome tested by the Admiralty. 1945

German infra-red equipment by G. H. Davis
Black light: the cats eye effect of the German infra-red telescopes and searchlights in darkness. How to see in the dark -- a German military secret paralleled by Allied inventions

Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath Robinson
The inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger

The Screw Em Out golf hole cleaner by Heath Robinson
A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the Screw-Em-Out golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course

Advert for Pliofilm from Goodyear 1944
What is Pliofilm ? Developed by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, was a rubber-based clear plastic used to protect equipment, especially weapons, from water and sand during the D-Day landings

The Gentle Art of Excavating - a specially designed skimmer
The beginning of a garden suburb. Excavating a new road with a specially designed skimmer, a typically rickety contraption from the inventive mind of gadget king, William Heath Robinson. Date: c.1938

Water-powered furnace bellows
A water wheel operates two sets of bellows to keep two furnaces burning hotly. Date: 1588

Palissy at Work
BERNARD PALISSY at work on his invention, surrounded by evidence of failure... his family in despair... and he himself discouraged... Date: 1510 - 1589

Hans Lippershey
HANS(or Franz) LIPPERSHEY (or LIPPERSHEIM) Dutch spectacle maker, credited with invention of the telescope (1608) Date: 1570? - 1619?

Flight carried out by one of the Wright brothers plane models. Engraving

Daguerreotype (1839). FRANCE. Paris. Conservatoire National des Arts et M鴩 ers (National Conservatory of Arts and Trades)

Balloon designs by Charles & Robert and Montgolfier
Balloon designs by Charles and Robert (1, 5) and the Montgolfier Brothers (2, 3, 4). No. 3 ascended from Versailles. No. 4 ascended from the Chateau de la Muette. No

Sultan locomotive, Iron Duke class, Great Western Railway
The newly built Sultan locomotive, belonging to the Iron Duke class of the Great Western Railway, a sister engine to the Great Britain. Both were built in 1847

Head Work! by W. Heath Robinson
A new machine (adopted by some of our first class restaurants) for putting the head on a glass of stout. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

Painting of the R34 Airship
Painting of the R34 British airship, first to cross the Atlantic from the UK to the USA in 1919

Very Hot! by William Heath Robinson
The wonderful Heath Robinson New Patent Thawing Machine. This stupendous invention has been specially designed to enable the pedestrian to walk with confidence on the most slippery roads

A Marker of Mark on The Market
A new labour saving lawn marker which is the sensation of the lawn tennis world. Requiring only two people to operate it, there is no doubt that it will soon be found in every up to date

The Jointed Iron Steam-ship Connector, 1863
Engraving of the Jointed Iron Steam-ship Connector, from the Illustrated London News, August 1863. The idea behind this invention was that the centre section of this ship could be left in port

Volta (Card)
ALESSANDRO VOLTA Italian scientist, notable for his invention of the voltaic pile - the first electric battery

Telegraph lines crossing the Great Plains of America
Telegraph lines running alongside a railway track at a remote station on the Great Plains of America

The Illustrated London News steam printing machines
Engraving of the steam printing machines used by the weekly periodical, The Illustrated London News. There were two separate machines; one for printing one side of the paper

Umbrellas from a-slot machine 1929
The inventor showing off his A-Slot vending machine Not Schirm, G.M.B.H in Berlin, New York, London and Paris. 1929

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