Inventor Collection (page 2)

Louis Daguerre discovers use of silver iodide in photography
Pioneer of photography, Louis Daguerre (1787 1851) developed the process of the daguerreotype. One of the most significant problems which occurred during the invention of photography was getting

John Logie Baird - demonstrates the first Television. Date: 1925

John Fitch - American inventor of the steamboat
John Fitch (1743-1798) - the ill-fated inventor of the steamboat, who ended his own life in Bardstown in 1798, Kentucky, USA

Sir Joseph Swan (1828-1914) English physicist, chemist, and inventor. Date: 1911

Washington Teasdale in 1853

Washington Teasdale, Victorian period

Poster, Samuel Cody, bust image with War Kite
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: S. F. Cody?s Famous War Kite. Chromolithograph poster with handsome lifesize bust image of Cody dressed in a crisp, white military uniform

Marconi - Master of Space, first edition biography
Marconi - Master of Space, first edition authorised biography by B L Jacot and D M B Collier. Date: 1935

Ernest Bazin, French inventor of roller boat steamer
Ernest Bazin, French inventor of the Roller Boat Steamer on wheels Date: 1897

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American scientist, inventor and politician. In 1776 he wrote, with Jefferson and John Adams, the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

Thomas Edison's Display, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Thomas Edison's Display at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Samuel Plimsoll MP (1824-1898) - English politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draught)

Thomas Edison, American inventor, at work. Date: 1880

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874 -1936), Italian inventor who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor, Marconi, born 1874, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1934), Italian inventor, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

GRINDELL MATTHEWS - British inventor, almost certainly a charlatan though some of his inventions seemed to work : best known for his death ray of 1924, never demonstrated. Date: 1880 - 1941

MATTHEWS'S LUMINAPHONE
Grindell Matthews's instrument uses beams of light to produce music : interestingly, the same inventor also offered the world a death ray a few years later. Date: 1926

MR M, DEATH RAY INVENTOR
Grindell Matthews, the inventor of a death ray which will destroy aircraft or explode munitions depots at a distance Date: 1924

RAY GUN PROJECT - 1
English inventor Grindell Matthews sets up his death- ray device in his workshop Date: 1924

Ray Gun Project Military Weapons Projects 1924
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RAY GUN PROJECT - 2
English inventor Grindell Matthews demonstrates his death- ray device on a small target Date: 1924

The Four-in-Hand Club
The Four-In-Hand Club, a coach driving club, was founded in April 1808, by Charles Buxton, the inventor of the Buxton bit, along with some friends

Monument to John Stowe, Historian and Antiquarian, 1525-1605
John Stowe, Historian and Antiquarian, 1525-1605, from his monument in the Church of St. Andrew Undershaft. Depicted in an Elizabethan ruff holding a quill pen

Regency designs for wooden chin pieces for falling animals
Regency designs for wooden chin pieces to protect animals when they fall, and to keep away boring Christians. The Puzzle for the Dog, The Puzzle for the Horse, The Puzzle for Turk, Frenchman, or

Elevation of a hunting lodge and plan of a verandah. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1816

Belhus, seat of Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard
Belhus, Essex, seat of slave owner Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard. Gothic style house with deer in the gardens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1826

Rev. Patrick Bell
The Reverend Patrick Bell (1799 - 1869), Church of Scotland minister and inventor of the reaping machine. Date: 1868

James Watt, Scottish engineer, at work on the steam engine. Date: circa 1760s

Louis Bleriot and wife after cross-Channel flight
Louis Bleriot, legendary pioneer aviator, with his wife Alice and a large crowd of spectators, posing with his aircraft after making the first ever aeroplane flight across the English Channel

Biggs sheep-dipping apparatus 1851
Thomas Bigg, Leicester House, Great Dover Street, Southwark, inventor and manufacturer of improved apparatus for sheep-dipping, using five men is capable of dipping 500 sheep per day. Date: 1851

The home of Nic鰨ore Niepce in Chalon-sur-Sa
The home of Joseph NicÚ░¿ore Niepce (1765 1833) in Chalon-sur-Sa France. French inventor. Niepce was a pioneer in the technological development of photography

Cartoon, Samuel Plimsoll, politician and reformer
Cartoon, Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898), English Liberal politician and social reformer. 1893

Sally Lunns Bakery Shop, Bath - inventor of the Bath Bun

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor and businessman, who has been described as Americas greatest inventor

Gala Performance at the Met, New York - Josef Hofmann
Golden Jubilee Gala Performance at the Met, New York by Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) - Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor

William Caxtons Printing Office in Westminster Abbey, London. 1474

Thomas Edison, American inventor. late 19th century

Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic gun. late 19th century

Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham, inventor
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham (1815-1906), English inventor and industrialist. circa 1890s

Lord Armstrong, armaments manufacturer
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810-1900), armaments manufacturer, scientist, inventor and philanthropist. circa 1890s

William Spears Simpson, English inventor of the cycle lever chain, similar to the one cyclist use today, formed by linked triangles with two levels

Marconis wireless telegraph message, Dover 1899
Guglielmo Marconi, shown here in the photograph with his latest invention, sending a wireless telegraphy from Dover Town Hall to South Foreland Lighthouse, through four miles of cliffs

The spark that speaks across the Atlantic to Canada, Guglielmo Marconi transmitter Date: 1907

THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931), American Inventor

Jenner Vaccinating Boy Date: 1915

Explaining theory of circulation to King Charles I

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

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