Inventor Collection (page 6)

SCHEINER, Christoph (1575-1650). Physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Projecting the image of the Sun through a refracting telescope on to a screen in order to study sunpots. Engraving

Paris Universal Exhibition (Exposition Universelle) of 1900. View of the viaducts with the Trottoir Roulant (Moving walkway) named Rue de l Avenir and the Decauville Electric Railway

Experiments with the phonograph in the Royal Institution, 1878. Professors John Tyndall and W.H. Preece Speaking into Phonograph. Engraving

BLANCHARD, Jean-Pierre (1753 - 1809). French inventor, most remembered as a pioneer in aviation and ballooning. Blanchard in front of the Militar School. 02/03/1784. Engraving. FRANCE

Portrait of Fulton. Engraving
FULTON, Robert (1765-1815). North-American nautical engineer. Inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat

Portrait of Fulton. Oil
FULTON, Robert (1765-1815). North-American nautical engineer. Inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat

Secret History of the Channel Tunnel by Heath Robinson
An early experiment of the inventor. A proposal for the Channel Tunnel tested out using beer barrels and an accommodating puddle or small pond. Date: 1919

Marconi strangles Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph snakes
THE INFANT HERCULES Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), strangling the twin snakes of Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph with his new Wireless telegraph system

Marconi in uniform, WW1
Italian inventor, Marconi, born 1874, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention. He received many honours

The National Dress, 1918
Mrs Allan Hawkey, inventor of the national standard dress, modelling its versatility exclusively for The Sketch magazine in 1918

A wasted life: satire on the invention of tanks, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II chides Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer, for not inventing anything useful, like the armoured tanks of the allies. Date: 1916

Stereoscopic television pictures by G. H. Davis
Stereoscopic television pictures: a notable British achievement. Three-dimensional pictures across the ether: the latest triumph of the inventor of television. Date: 1942

John Nevil Maskelyne (1838 to 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor. Date: circa 1900

Fernand Forest - French Inventor
Fernand Forest (1851-1914) French inventor and specialist in propulsion technologies. Played a key role in the history and development of the automobile. Date: 1888

Sir Robert A. Hadfield, Vanity Fair, WH
SIR ROBERT ABBOTT HADFIELD, 1st Baronet of Sheffield (1858 - 1940) English metallurgist, noted for his work with steel alloys and the invention of manganese steel and silicon steel

Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine 1849
SHjorth (1801- 1870), Danish inventor Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine. The motor was a significant development from earlier electro-magnetic engines

Leon Bollee Photo
LEON BOLLEE - French inventor known for his work on calculating machines and cars, notably the voiturette, photographed with Wilbur Wright (on left) in 1908. Date: 1870 - 1913

Louis Daguerr
LOUIS JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE, French artist and pioneer of photography : inventor of the daguerrotype which was for a time the cutting edge of photographic technology. Date: 1789 - 1851

Michael Faraday
MICHAEL FARADAY chemist and inventor Date: 1791 - 1867

WHEATSTONE
SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE physicist and inventor, instrumental in the electric telegraph Date: 1802 - 1875

Ralph Walker
RALPH WALKER inventor and engineer, wearing spectacles Date: circa 1803

Adam Walker
ADAM WALKER inventor of devices for ventilation etc. Date: 1731 - 1821

Samuel Morse
SAMUEL MORSE Scottish-American inventor with his autograph Date: 1791 - 1872

Fredk. William Trench
Sir FREDERICK. WILLIAM TRENCH British military commander, . but so far as I know he was not the inventor of trench warfare. Date: 1775 - 1859

Gaston Tissandier
GASTON TISSANDIER (1843-1899), French journalist, scientific populariser, aviator and inventor, brother of Albert

Albert Tissandier
ALBERT TISSANDIER (1839-1906), French journalist, illustrator, aviator and inventor, brother of Gaston. Date: 1906

Cornelius Varley
CORNELIUS VARLEY artist and inventor Date: 1781 - 1873

Third Earl Stanhope
CHARLES, third earl STANHOPE statesman, inventor, father of Lady Hester. Date: 1753 - 1816

OTIS TUFTS American inventor of the elevator (known as a lift in Britain) Date: 1804 - ?

Snider, Inventor
F H SNIDER (or Snyder) inventor of the Snider rifle about whom nothing else seems to be known. Date: CIRCA 1870S

Selig Slonimski
SELIG SLONIMSKI Russian-Jewish mathematician, inventor of a calculating machine and founder of a Hebrew newspaper. Date: 1810 - 1904

James Allen Ransome
JAMES ALLEN RANSOME engineer, inventor and manufacturer of agricultural machinery with his autograph Date: 1806 - 1875

Jacob Perkins
JACOB PERKINS American inventor of printing technology, boilers, engines and other machinery for ships depicted for some reason in classical dress ! Date: 1766 - 1849

Thomas Morson
THOMAS MORSON London pharmacist, chemist and inventor Date: 1799? - 1874

Home of Andrew Meikle
The home of ANDREW MEIKLE, inventor of the thrashing machine, at Houston Mill. Date: CIRCA 1800

Samuel Cunliffe Lister
SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER, first baron Masham English inventor of textile machinery at Bradford, Yorkshire, art collector and philanthropist. Date: 1815 - 1906

Le Gros De LA Neuville
N LE GROS DE LA NEUVILLE French inventor of hair-pins for ladies - the only inventor of hair-pins in our entire portrait archive ! Date: 19TH CENTURY

Kelvin and Wife
WILLIAM THOMSON, first baron KELVIN of Largs scientist and inventor, with his wife who collaborated in his work. Date: 1824 - 1907

Valentine Rene Hauy
VALENTIN HAUY French educator, inventor of a script for the blind, with behind him his brother Rene Just Hauy, mineralogist. Date: 1745 - 1822

John Hays Hammond Jnr
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND American inventor of radio- controlled torpedoes and other useful weapons of mass destruction. Son of engineer of the same name. Date: 1888 - 1965

Stephen Hales
STEPHEN HALES Churchman, physiologist and inventor. Date: 1677 - 1761

Alexis Hallette
ALEXIS HALLETTE - French engineer / inventor : his workshops produced hardware from boats to carriages, his great claim to fame is in presses for oil / fruit juice. Date: 1788 - 1846

Sir Howard Grubb
SIR HOWARD GRUBB Irish inventor and manufacturer of telescopes and other scientific instruments, famous for inventing the periscope. Date: 1844 - 1931

Major Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powells Quadruplane
In 1909 the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (which was to evolve into the Royal Aeronautical Society) owned an experimental flying ground at Dagenham

Major Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell at Dagenham
In 1909 the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (which was to evolve into the Royal Aeronautical Society) owned an experimental flying ground at Dagenham

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 5000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 5000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer

John A Collins - Lancashire Industrialist and Inventor
John A Collins - Lancashire Engineer, Industrialist and Inventor. Produced bicycle bags (Cykewear Limited) with a distinctive red dot in the centre

Indian Elephant taking Doctor Serravallo for a ride
Indian Elephant taking Doctor J Serravallo (the Italian inventor/creator of Serravallo Tonic Wine) for a ride. Date: circa 1910s

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