Inventor Collection (page 3)

Sir Frederick Abel (1827 - 1902), English chemist and inventor. Date: 1890

Percy Pilcher
Percy Sinclair Pilcher (1866 - 1899), British inventor and pioneer aviator

Percy Pilchers fatal flight 1899
Photographs showing Pilcher ready to start and in mid flight on his invention the Gliding machine. On 30th September 1899, the weather was wet and stormy

POOR INVENTOR AT WORK
A scruffy, poor inventor is immersed in his work while his wife and daughter try to warm themselves at the stove - will they ever get rich? Date: 1886

Nikola Tesla
NIKOLA TESLA American electrician and inventor, born in Croatia of Serbian parents; seen here lecturing to scientists in Paris Date: 1856 - 1943

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

Aloys Senefelder - Chereau
Aloys Senefelder (1771 - 1834) - Prague-born German inventor of lithography, depicted in his workshop demonstrating his process

Jacques de Vaucanson (1709 - 1782) French inventor, notably of automata; here, he astonishes his servant with a mechanical flute-player

Ludwig L Zamenhof
Dr LUDWIG L ZAMENHOF German linguist, inventor of ESPERANTO which he hopes will become an international auxiliary language Date: 1859 - 1917

SIR WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
SIR WILLIAM GEORGE ARMSTRONG, Baron Armstrong Engineer, inventor and arms manufacturer Date: 1810 - 1900

FULTON (1765 - 1815)
ROBERT FULTON American inventor; in Paris 1797-1806 he invents a submarine but fails to interest Napoleon Date: 1765 - 1815

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

Mouchots solar-powered motor Date: 1927

Solar panels on a house, 1920s
Solar panels on a domestic house Date: 1929

John Logie Baird (1888 - 946), Scottish inventor, Invented the television. Date: 1926

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885a'1959) - English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885-1959) - English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the octane rating to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II

Dole, France - Birthplace of Louis Pasteur
Dole, a commune in the Jura department in the Franche-Comte region in eastern France - the Birthplace of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French biologist

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

Anaximander (610 546 BC) with a sundial. Roman mosaic. 3rd
Anaximander (610- 546 BC). Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. Anaximandder with a sundial

Samuel Crompton - 2
SAMUEL CROMPTON Engineer, inventor of the spinning mule. Date: 1753 - 1827

Thomas Edison / Young
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man Date: 1847 - 1931

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

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 15 September 1859) - English mechanical and civil engineer. Designer and builder of dockyards, the Great Western Railway

Eugene Turpin, inventor of turpinite, WW1
Eugene Turpin, French inventor and chemist who in 1884, first discovered melinite (picric acid) which produced the worlds first explosive shells

James Watt (1736 - 1819), Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor and businessman. Date: 1917

John Kemp Starley
JOHN KEMP STARLEY inventor of the safety bicycle [do not confuse with James Starley who invented spoked bicycle wheels !) Date: 1855 - 1901

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

Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), English chemist, inventor and industrialist. As well as inventing the dry plate photographic process

Balloon Project 1785
French project for a dirigible balloon : by an unidentified inventor

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

Gionitus. Inventor of Astronomy, (1334-1336). The exagonal p
Gionitus. Inventor of Astronomy, (1334-1336). From the workshop of Andrea Pisano. The exagonal panels of the campanille of Florence Cathedral. Italy

Thomas Edison / After Mora
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man Date: 1847 - 1931

Joseph-Marie Jacquard
JOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD French inventor of loom, using punched cards Date: 1752 - 1834

Nicolas Appert
NICOLAS APPERT French inventor of food processing Date: 1750 - 1841

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

MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819-1868). American dentist that considered himself as the inventor and revealer of the use of ether for surgical anesthesia

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

MEUCCI, Antonio (1808 - 1889). Italian inventor of the telephone. Meuccis telephone. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Bernard Palissy
BERNARD PALISSY French inventor of pottery technology, harassed for being a protestant but honoured by posterity. Date: 1510 - 1589

Millican Dalton looking toward Derwentwater from Borrowdale
Derwentwater from High Lodore, Borrowdale, Lake District, Cumbria, England. This card features Millican Dalton (1867-1947), famous outdoors man

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)

S. F. Cody and War Kite
Samuel Franklin Cody, British- American aviator and inventor of the famous war kite, an early type of aeroplane and communication device

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