Pioneer Collection (page 7)

Michael Faraday - English scientist
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) - English scientist - contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His discoveries included the principles underlying electromagnetic induction

Front cover of The Tatler - Miss Amy Johnson
Portrait of Amy Johnson, CBE (1903 -1941), on the front cover of The Tatler, 6th August 1930. Amy Johnson was a pioneering English aviatrix

Smoke Signal Statue, Pioneer Park, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Smoke Signal Statue, dedicated to the Nebraska Indian, Pioneer Park, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Date: 1941

Players Navy Cut Snap Game - The Digger - holding a large pack of Players " Digger" Flake - Empire Grown pipe tobacco. Date: 1930

Stan. Dupuy-De-Lome
STANISLAS-CHARLES-HENRI- LAURENT DUPUY DE LOME French engineer and aviation pioneer Date: 1816 - 1885

Dr a I Coffin
DR A I COFFIN : medical : Pioneer of medical botany who introduced Thomsons ideas to Europe : in 1845 he founded the Association of Herbal Medicine, authored books. Date: mid-19th century

PUYSEGUR
AMAND-MARIE-JACQUES DE CHASTENET, marquis de PUYSEGUR French pioneer of animal magnetism /hypnotism Date: 1751 - 1825

Caroline Remy, Madame Guilhard aka Severine
Caroline Remy, Madame Guilhard known as Severine (1855-1929) French journalist and womens rights pioneer

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

Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873 - 1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, one of the very few people to have contributed significantly to the development of both lighter-than-air

Marconi monument, Poldhu, southern Cornwall
Close-up of plaque on the Marconi memorial monument, Poldhu, southern Cornwall. The monument marks the location of Poldhu Wireless Station

Horse drawn carriage and train. The De Witt Clinton, pioneer type of Mohawk & Hudson, first to haul passenger train in state of New York... on train in America. Date: circa 1920

Illustration, A Song of the English, Barren Landscape
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

First ride of Pony Express, Missouri to California, USA
Depiction of the first ride of Pony Express, from St Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, USA, on 3 April 1860. Showing the first messenger setting off on what was the first fast mail line

Bedroom Wash Stand Tabor House
The home of Horace Tabor, who made and lost a vast fortune in mining silver at the Matchless Mine. Fine wallpaper, bedroom wash stand with ewer and basin

Lucky Cuss Restaurant, Tombstone
Painted wooden facia of the Lucky Cuss restaurant in the mining town of Tombstone, Arizona

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Old Fort, Tuli
Black and white lantern Slide of Old Fort, Tuli - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection. Slide number 10

Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig. Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) and Edith Craig (1869-1947) portraits of Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig

Dorothy Spicer, aviator
Dorothy Norman Spicer, married name Pearce (1908- 1946), aviator and pioneering aeronautical engineeer. Together with her business partner Pauline Gower set up a successful aeronautical company

Jje Lenoir / Figuier Eng
Photograph of Louis Lumiere (1865-1948), French pioneer of cinematography, scrutinising a strip of film. Together with his brother Auguste, Louis invented the cinematograph

Niepce De St Victor
JOSEPH-NICEPHORE NIEPCE de Saint-Victor French pioneer of photography, who more than anyone deserves to be regarded as the first true photographer. Date: 1765 - 1833

Pilatre De Rozier
JEAN-FRANCOIS PILATRE DE ROZIER Pioneer French aviator, made the first manned balloon ascent in a Montgolfier balloon. Date: 1756 - 1785

Pedro Navarro
PEDRO NAVARRO, conde di Alivetto Spanish military, pioneer in the use of mines. Date: 1460 - 1528

Thomas Henty, Pioneer
THOMAS HENTY Sussex banker and landowner inspired by news of the Swan River Settlement chartered a barque and emigrated to Australia as pioneer settler. Date: 1775 - 1839

Mrs. Sage and Mr. Biggin, late 18th century Aviators (ballon ascents). Date: circa 1785

Mr. Charles Greens Coronation Balloon

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

Electric Power House - Petty Harbor, Newfoundland
Electric Power House - Flume & pipe line - Petty Harbor, Newfoundland, Canada. The first hydroelectric generating station (Petty Harbour Generating Station) in Newfoundland and Labrador

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

Grave of Brigham Young - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Grave of Brigham Young (1801-1877) - Leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and American settler. President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) from 1847 until 1877

First House built in Utah - Deuel Cabin, Salt Lake City
First House built in Utah - Salt Lake City, USA - an old log house built in September 1847 by Osmyn Deuel. Pictured here in a former location under a pergola shelter at the Salt Lake Temple Square

Anton Fokker, Dutch aviator and aircraft manufacturer
Anton Herman Gerard (Anthony) Fokker (1890-1939), Dutch aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer, famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in Germany during the First World War

Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, South Africa
Part of the Voortrekker Monument in Gauteng Province, Pretoria, South Africa, showing Voortrekker ox wagons in the wall surrounding the Monument -- in total there are 64 of these wagons

Pioneer Sergeant - The Scots Guards
Pioneer Sergeant of The Scots Guards. In 1831 bearskins were issued but the regiment was forced to adopt the title Scots Fusilier Guards as a reason to wear them

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

John Logie Baird watching Stereoscopic Television, 1942
Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, watching stereoscopic television at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, June 1942

John Logie Baird experimenting at home, 1942
Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, conducting a television experiment at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, 1942

Gottlieb Daimler
GOTTLIEB DIAMLER. German industrialist, motoring pioneer

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), US inventor and telephone pioneer. Born in Edinburgh, Bell began his career in assisting his father teach elocution

Ken Waller / Comet Plane
Kenneth Herbert Fraser Waller, pioneer aviator, and his De Havilland Comet

Berliner Helicopter 1922
American inventor Henry Berliner, son of helicopter pioneer Emile Berliner, carries on his fathers work and is here seen testing his 1922 model, one of a series

Clement Ader Photo
CLEMENT ADER French engineer and inventor in various fields, best known for his pioneer work in aviation, photographed in 1913. Date: 1841 - 1926

Louis Daguerre
LOUIS-JACQUES-MANDE DAGUERRE French pioneer in photography Date: 1789 - 1851

Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He got into trouble with the church over his claim that the sun, and not the earth

Statue of Edward Jenner - Vaccination Pioneer - Boulogne
Statue of Edward Jenner (1749-1823) - Vaccination Pioneer - Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Date: circa 1909

F. A. M. Webster
Frederick Annesley Michael Webster, athletics pioneer, coach, sports writer, member of the British Olympic Committee and Secretary of the Amateur Field Sports Association

The Girl of the Golden West. Date: circa 1910

Brighton Motor Trials - Miss Dorothy Levitt
Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt (1882-1922) in her 80 hp Napier at the Brighton Motor (Speed) Trials, on 21st July 1905. Levitt was the first British woman racing driver

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