Pioneer Collection (page 8)

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

Vincenzo Lancia - Italian Motor Engineer and pilot
Vincenzo Lancia (18811937) - an Italian pilot, engineer and founder of the Motor Company Lancia. Pictured in a Fiat Motorcar Date: circa 1908

Captain Percy Scott. Part of Box 104 Boswell collection.Sir Percy Moreton Scott, 1st Baronet KCB KCVO LL.D (10 July 1853 18 October 1924)

Memorial to Captain Webb (Cross-channel swimmer) - Dover
Dover, Kent, England - Memorial to Captain Matthew Webb (1848-1883) famous cross-channel swimmer, the first to achieve this feat between Dover and Calais in 1875

A demonstration flight of Wrights Flyer - France and an inset portrait of pioneering aviator Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912). Date: 1908

Buffalo Statue, Pioneer Park, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Date: 1941

Joseph Chamberlain as a pioneer, observing an unknown land
Joseph Chamberlain aboard a small rowing boat ( The Orchid ), propelled by John Bull, peering toward the Unknown Land through a telescope

Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896). German pioneer of aviation. Eng
Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896). German pioneer of aviation. The Gilder King. Engraving by La Ilustracion Artistica, 1890. Colored

Eugenio Espejo (1747-1795). Engraving
Eugenio Espejo (1747-1795). Portrait. Engraving. 18th century. Aurelio Espinosa Polit File Library. Quito. Cotocollao. Ecuador

Poster, C W A Scott in Air Display, Portsmouth Airport
Poster, C W A Scott, winner of England-Australia Air Race, will personally appear in Sir Alan Cobhams Air Display, Portsmouth Airport, 29 June 1935. Date: 1935

Poster, Mignets Flying Flea Air Display, Boughton
Poster, Mignets Flying Flea at Sir Alan Cobhams Air Display, Boughton (not at Sywell), 21 September 1935. Date: 1935

Poster, Irish Aero Club, Sir Alan Cobhams Air Display
Poster, Irish Aero Club in co-operation with Sir Alan Cobhams Air Display, left blank for date and location details to be added. Date: 1930s

Poster, Sir Alan Cobhams Great Air Display, Acklam
Poster, Sir Alan Cobhams Great Air Display (also known as Cobhams Flying Circus), Landale Road, Acklam, 5-6 September 1934. Date: 1934

Rene Vidart, early aviator
Rene Vidart (1890-1928), early French aviator and pioneer who later served as a pilot in WW1. 1911

Lieutenant De Malherbe, early aviator
Lieutenant De Malherbe, early French aviator and pioneer. 1911

Jules Vedrines, early aviator
Jules Charles Toussaint Vedrines (1881-1919), early French aviator and pioneer who won the Paris to Madrid air race in May 1911 flying a Morane-Borel monoplane. 1911

Captain Georges Bellenger, early aviator
Captain Georges Bellenger (1878-1977), early aviator and pioneer who flew a Bleriot plane in 1911, and during WW1 served with the French 6th Army as an aviation officer. 1911

Tatler cover - Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale - boxer
The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, later 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903-1973), Scottish nobleman and aviation pioneer, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in 1924 at the Amateur Boxing

Cyrus West Field
CYRUS WEST FIELD American financier, pioneer of the transatlantic cable. Date: 1819 - 1892

John Pascoe Fawkner
JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER Pioneer in Australia Date: 1792 - 1869

Jules F Dupuis-Delcourt
JULES FRANCOIS DUPUIS-DELCOURT French balloon pioneer, with many ambitious projects which only occasionally bore fruit. Date: ACTIVE 1820S-1850S

John Crossley
JOHN CROSSLEY Education pioneer and philanthropist. Date: 1812 - 1879

Daniel Boone - 3
DANIEL BOONE American pioneer and folk-hero. Date: 1734 - 1820

20th Earl Shrewsbury
CHARLES HENRY JOHN CHETWYND TALBOT, twentieth earl of SHREWSBURY and fifth earl Talbot, motoring enthusiast who collected hansom cabs. 1860 - 1921

John Frost (Medical)
JOHN FROST Medical pioneer whose arrogance and self-promotion offended all : shady financial dealings forced him to leave England for Germany Date: 1803 - 1840

Mermoz / Hiss Aeronautique
Jean Mermoz, pioneer French aviator Date: 1901 - 1936

Henry Thompson
SIR HENRY THOMPSON English surgeon, writer, and pioneer of cremation Date: 1820 - 1904

Santos-Dumont / Vfair 1901
ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT Brazilian aviation pioneer Date: 1873 - 1932

Baron Dupotet
BARON J D DEs DUPOTET French scientist, pioneer of hypnotism Date: 1796 - 1881

Settlers hut, California
Two men standing outside a wooden pioneer hut. Date: 1860

John Herschel / Johnson
SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL British astronomer and pioneer of photography Date: 1792 - 1871

Italo Svevo (b Ettore Scmitz) (1861 - 1928) Italian novelist; pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy

Lumiere / Louis / Ils Photo
LOUIS-JEAN LUMIERE French chemist, industrialist and pioneer (with his brother) of cinematography Date: 1864 - 1948

Pioneer in Trouble / 1895
A sage-brush pioneer in trouble Date: 1895

Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth
SIR JAMES PHILLIPS KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH Physician, public health reformer and pioneer of state-funded education Date: 1804 - 1877

Sir Henry B. Jackson
SIR HENRY BRADWARDINE JACKSON Admiral of the Fleet and pioneer of wireless telegraphy Date: 1855 - 1929

Edward Jenner / Statue
EDWARD JENNER Statue to the physician and pioneer of vaccination Date: 1749 - 1823

Louisa Twining (1820 - 1912), English philanthropic worker who devoted herself to issues and tasks related to the English Poor Law. Her family owned Twinings tea business on the Strand

Miss Rachel Mary Parsons
Miss Rachel Parsons, (18851956) British Engineer Date: 1939

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