Inventor Collection (page 7)

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

DAGUERRE, Louis-Jacques-Mande (1787-1851). French inventor that improved the photography. Litography

MONTURIOL, Narciso (1819-1885). Spanish inventor and republican politician. Plans of submarine Ictineo II, designed by Monturiol. Vertical and horizontal section across the axis of the nave. SPAIN

BRANLY, Edouard (1846-1940). French physicist

Flat Arabian astrolabe from 16th c

EDISON, Thomas Alva (1847-1931). United States scientist and inventor. Thomas Edison and his phonograph (1889). Engraving

Gutenberg, Johannes Gensfleich (c.1400-1468). German printer, inventor of the printing press. Reproduction of a sculpture by Juan

Sir Henry Bessemer
SIR HENRY BESSEMER engineer and inventor Date: 1813 - 1898

Bell and Grandson
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Scottish-American inventor of the telephone, with a grandson. Date: 1847 - 1922

Grays Telephone System
A demonstration of the telephone system of Elisha Gray in New York. Gray filed a patent for the telephone on the same day as Bell, but his initial delay proved costly! Date: 1878

BELLs KITE - 1
The inventor Alexander Graham Bell, with a small model of his tetrahedral kite design. Date: 1903 - 4

Guglielmo Marconi - Italian Radio Pioneer
Guglielmo Marconi (18741937) - Italian inventor, known as the " Father of long distance radio transmission" and for his development of Marconis law and a radio telegraph system. 1926

Marconi Bruni
GUGLIELMO MARCONI the Italian inventor with communications apparatus Date: 1874 - 1937

Marconi Legs Crossed
GUGLIELMO MARCONI the Italian inventor at Naples, on board the yacht Electra Date: 1874 - 1937

Marconi (Nobel)
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor, Nobel Prize 1909 Date: 1874 - 1937

Marconi (Cig. Card 2)
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor, Date: 1874 - 1937

The Great Aerial Navigator, or Atmospheric Machine! An article with a detailed diagram showing an aerial machine claimed to be capable of transportation to India and China in the space of five days

Claude Chappe ne en 1765, invente le telegraphe en 1791, meurt en 1805Claude Chappe working on telegraph with another man. Date 180-(?)

Alberto Santos Dumont in his aeroplane, La Demoiselle. He was an aviator, sportsman and Brazilian inventor

The late Dr and Mrs Alexander Graham Bell. Beinn Bhreagh. Nova Scotia, Canada

Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning machine. Japanese print shows an angry Arkwright sending his wife to her parents because she deliberately broke his spinning wheel

John Heathcoat, inventor of the knitting machine. Japanese print showing Heathcoat displaying the first successful result from his knitting machine to his wife. Date between 1850 and 1900

Bernard Palissy, inventor of enamelled pottery. Japanese print shows Palissy, apparently in a frenzy, burning chairs to keep the furnace going as a woman breast feeding a baby and a boy run in fear

James Watt, inventor of the steam engine. Japanese print shows Watt collecting steam from a boiling kettle while his aunt rebukes him for his nonsense. Date between 1850 and 1900

Alois Senefelder inventor of lithography

A view of the birth place of Robert Fulton, Lancaster county, state of Pennsylvania. Date 1856

Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule. Print shows statue of Samuel Crompton in Nelson Square, Bolton England. The statue, by W. Calder Marshall, was raised by public subscription

Prof. S. F. B. Morse. The great inventor of the telegraph
Prof. S.F.B. Morse. The great inventor of the telegraph. Date c1870

Sir Alfred Frederick Bird, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR ALFRED FREDERICK BIRD, 1st Baronet (1849-1922) British chemist, Conservative Party politician, food manufacturer and proprietor of Alfred Bird & Sons, a company founded by his father Alfred Bird

Sauvage Photo
FREDERIC SAUVAGE French engineer, inventor of the screw propellor, in 1854. Date: 1785 - 1857

Samuel Lister Statue
SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER His statue in Lister Park, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. A prolific inventor of over 150 inventions, including a wool-combing machine. Date: 1815 - 1906

Gramophone Alarm Clock
A young inventor with his gramophone alarm clock ! Date: early 1930s

TEXAS SKI JUMP
Called after the name of the inventor, the Texas is one of the most spectacular of ski jumps! Date: 1930s

HALL I TH WOOD
Hall i th Wood, near Bolton, Lancashire, England. Once the home of Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the Spinning Mule (1779), which revolutionised the cotton industry. Date: 15th century

Frank Hornby (1863 - 1936), British inventor and MP. Invented and developed the toy Meccano, Dinky Toys and the Hornby Dublo model railway system (though this was introduced after his death)

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt(1892-1973), inventor of radar. Date: 1941

Richard March Hoe
General RICHARD MARCH HOE American inventor of printing machinery, including the rotary or lightning press 1847, the web press and the web-perfecting press. Date: 1812 - 1886

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