Pioneering Collection (page 3)

Garnerin descending in his parachute, with his discarded balloon on the left. Claimed to be the first human being to descend from a balloon by means of a parachute (animals had previously been used)

Sweden - Trollhattan
Trollhattan, Southern Sweden - founded by the river Gota alv, at the location of Trollhattan Falls. In the late nineteenth century

Scouts practising pioneering, Grenada, West Indies
Scouts practising pioneering in Grenada, West Indies. 1949

The Pioneer by Pjzeska
A confident young woman of the pre-WWI era, nonchalantly smokes a cigarette at a restaurant table, ignoring the shocked expressions of her fellow diners and male waiter. Date: 1930

Vickers Vimy aeroplane with Rolls Royce engines
The Vickers Vimy aeroplane with two Rolls Royce engines. It served as a British heavy bomber during the First World War, and was the first plane to fly the Atlantic Ocean non-stop in 1919

Aviation competition at Rheims, 1909, Farman, Latham & Paulh
Page from the Bystander reporting on the record flights made at Rheims Aviation Meeting in 1909. showing the winner, Henri Farman who flew 116 miles in 3 hours, 4 minutes

Hubert Latham at Rheims, 1909 - the Bird Man in Full Flight
Hubert Latham, pioneering French aviator seen in his bird like Antoinette monoplane at Reims in 1909. Latham recorded the second longest flight at the event, Henri Farman the longest. Date: 1909

Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), pioneering American female aviator, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler at the point during her attempt at flying around the world solo

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, Cornwall. It marks the location of Marconis telegraph station during the pioneering days of

People boarding a Transair aeroplane, Vienna
A group of people boarding an aeroplane operated by Transair, in Vienna, Austria. (1 of 3)

People disembark from a Transair aeroplane
A group of people disembarking from an aeroplane operated by Transair, in Vienna, Austria. (2 of 3)

People boarding a small aeroplane
A group of people boarding a small aeroplane, operated by Charter Ltd of London. (2 of 3)

Willows Airship above St Pauls Cathedral, London

Twelfth Night Entertainment at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum
Inmates of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, a pioneering institution for the Victorian age which operated a non-restraint policy

Jean Batten (1909-1982)
Portrait of Miss Jean Batten, the pioneering aviator from New Zealand who became the first woman to fly across the South Atlantic, in 1935

Grey Owls Cabin, Saskatchewan, 1934
Photograph of Grey Owls Cabin; Beaver Lodge, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1934. Grey Owl (1888-1938), born Archibald Stansfield Belaney in Sussex

Philippe Pinel
PHILIPPE PINEL French medical, noted for his pioneering work in the treatment of the insane

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