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Background imageInventor Collection: Edward Nash Hurley, Right, with James A. Farrell, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Edward Nash Hurley, Right, with James A. Farrell, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Edward Nash Hurley, Right, with James A. Farrell, 1914. Businessman and inventor Hurley with James Augustine Farrell Sr. president of US Steel

Background imageInventor Collection: Edward Nash Hurley, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Edward Nash Hurley, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Edward Nash Hurley, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Edward Nash Hurley, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Edward Nash Hurley, 1917. Businessman and inventor

Background imageInventor Collection: Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute, 1913

Background imageInventor Collection: Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute, 1913

Background imageInventor Collection: Leonard D.Mahon with Steel Helmet He Invented That Could Be Used As Shovel, 1917

Leonard D.Mahon with Steel Helmet He Invented That Could Be Used As Shovel, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Leonard D.Mahon with Steel Helmet He Invented That Could Be Used As Shovel, 1917

Background imageInventor Collection: Leonard D. Mahon with steel helmet he invented that could be used as shovel, 1917

Leonard D. Mahon with steel helmet he invented that could be used as shovel, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Leonard D
Leonard D. Mahon with steel helmet he invented that could be used as shovel, 1917

Background imageInventor Collection: Hudson Maxim with wife Lillian Durban Maxim, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Hudson Maxim with wife Lillian Durban Maxim, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Hudson Maxim with wife Lillian Durban Maxim, 1917. American inventor and chemist, invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder. (Brother of Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun)

Background imageInventor Collection: Hudson Maxim with wife Lillian Durban Maxim, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Hudson Maxim with wife Lillian Durban Maxim, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Hudson Maxim with wife Lillian Durban Maxim, 1917. American inventor and chemist, invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder. (Brother of Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun)

Background imageInventor Collection: Archimède démontrant aux ingènieurs anglais... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier

Archimède démontrant aux ingènieurs anglais... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Archimede demontrant aux ingenieurs anglais... 19th century. Archimedes showing the English engineers how, in Syracuse, he raised not just one vessel but an entire fleet

Background imageInventor Collection: Mr. Theremin, portrait photograph, 1928 May 3. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Mr. Theremin, portrait photograph, 1928 May 3. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mr. Theremin, portrait photograph, 1928 May 3. Leon Theremin, (Lev Sergeyevich Termen), Russian inventor of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments

Background imageInventor Collection: National Geographical [sic] Society - Anniversary of Bell Telephone, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing

National Geographical [sic] Society - Anniversary of Bell Telephone, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Geographic Society. Anniversary of Bell Telephone. Front: Theodore Newton Vail And Alexander Graham Bell; Back of Bell, Thomas Augustus Watson, Assoc. with Bell in Experiments

Background imageInventor Collection: Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Thomas A. Edison, 1911. [US inventor and businessman]

Background imageInventor Collection: Wright Brothers Airplane, Etc - Harry Atwood, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Wright Brothers Airplane, Etc - Harry Atwood, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Wright Brothers Airplane, Etc - Harry Atwood, 1911. [US aviation pineer, engineer and inventor Atwood was chief flight instructor for William Starling Burgess whose Burgess Company built a variety of

Background imageInventor Collection: Aviator Harry Atwood, in Plane with Leo Stevens, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Aviator Harry Atwood, in Plane with Leo Stevens, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Aviator Harry Atwood, in Plane with Leo Stevens, 1911. [US aviation pineer, engineer and inventor Atwood was chief flight instructor for William Starling Burgess whose Burgess Company built a variety

Background imageInventor Collection: Wright Brothers Airplane, Etc - Harry Atwood, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Wright Brothers Airplane, Etc - Harry Atwood, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Wright Brothers Airplane, Etc - Harry Atwood, 1911. [US aviation pineer, engineer and inventor Atwood was chief flight instructor for William Starling Burgess whose Burgess Company built a variety of

Background imageInventor Collection: Atwood, Harry. Aviator. Rising From White House Lawn In Wright Type B Plane, July, 1911

Atwood, Harry. Aviator. Rising From White House Lawn In Wright Type B Plane, July, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Atwood, Harry. Aviator. Rising From White House Lawn In Wright Type B Plane, July, 1911

Background imageInventor Collection: Horse Shows - Richard Mcgramm; Count Debuisseret; Mrs. Mcgramm; William E. Ellis... 1911

Horse Shows - Richard Mcgramm; Count Debuisseret; Mrs. Mcgramm; William E. Ellis... 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Horse Shows. Richard Mcgramm; Count Debuisseret; Mrs. Mcgramm; William E. Ellis; Sir Robert Hatfield, 1911

Background imageInventor Collection: Prof. Geo. W. Carver, M. Ag. 1902. Creator: Unknown

Prof. Geo. W. Carver, M. Ag. 1902. Creator: Unknown
Prof. Geo. W. Carver, M. Ag. 1902

Background imageInventor Collection: E.N. Hurley, 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing. E.N. Hurley, 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing

E.N. Hurley, 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing. E.N. Hurley, 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing
E.N. Hurley, 1919. Irish American businessman and inventor Edward Nash Hurley, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

Background imageInventor Collection: J.H. Darden ; H.P. Cheatham ; J.W. Adams ; A.C. Cornell ; Wm. Custalo. 1902. Creator: Unknown

J.H. Darden ; H.P. Cheatham ; J.W. Adams ; A.C. Cornell ; Wm. Custalo. 1902. Creator: Unknown
J.H. Darden ; Henry Plummer Cheatham ; J.W. Adams ; A.C. Cornell ; Wm. Custalo. 1902

Background imageInventor Collection: Anne M. Pope Turnbo-Malone; Founder, 1922. Creator: Unknown

Anne M. Pope Turnbo-Malone; Founder, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Anne M. Pope Turnbo-Malone; Founder, 1922

Background imageInventor Collection: Hon. H. P. Cheatham [recto], 1902. Creator: Unknown

Hon. H. P. Cheatham [recto], 1902. Creator: Unknown
Hon. H. P. Cheatham [recto], 1902. African-American businessman, inventor, educator, farmer and politician. One of only five black Americans elected to Congress from the South in the Jim Crow era of

Background imageInventor Collection: Granville T. Woods, 1887. Creator: Unknown

Granville T. Woods, 1887. Creator: Unknown
Granville T. Woods, 1887. Inventor Granville Tailer Woods, the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War

Background imageInventor Collection: The workshop of James Watt at Heathfield, near Birmingham, as it was at his death in 1818, 1886

The workshop of James Watt at Heathfield, near Birmingham, as it was at his death in 1818, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The workshop of James Watt at Heathfield, near Birmingham, as it was at his death in 1818, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Background imageInventor Collection: Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Bros

Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912
Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. American aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright are generally credited with inventing, building

Background imageInventor Collection: Chemistry laboratory at Tuskegee Institute, c1902. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

Chemistry laboratory at Tuskegee Institute, c1902. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Chemistry laboratory at Tuskegee Institute, c1902. Photograph shows interior view of chemistry laboratory/classroom with students at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama

Background imageInventor Collection: George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1906. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1906. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
George Washington Carver, half-length portrait, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1906. [Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor, and a professor at the Tuskegee Institute

Background imageInventor Collection: 'Professor Myers Air Bicycle, 1891. Creator: Unknown

'Professor Myers Air Bicycle, 1891. Creator: Unknown
'Professor Myers Air Bicycle, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Background imageInventor Collection: Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Thomas A. Edison, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Thomas A. Edison, 1911. [US inventor and businessman]

Background imageInventor Collection: Portrait of Édouard Branly (1844-1940), physicist, c1920. Creator: Unknown

Portrait of Édouard Branly (1844-1940), physicist, c1920. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Edouard Branly (1844-1940), physicist, c1920

Background imageInventor Collection: Sir David Brewste...Delivering the Opening Address, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Sir David Brewste...Delivering the Opening Address, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Sir David Brewster, the President (of the British Association at Edinburgh), Delivering the Opening Address, 1850. A goodly number, about 1200 old and new members of the British Association

Background imageInventor Collection: Sir David Brewster, K.G. President of the British Association, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Sir David Brewster, K.G. President of the British Association, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Sir David Brewster, K.G. President of the British Association [for the Advancement of Science], 1850. The discoveries of Sir David Brewster range from the kaleidoscope to the law of the angle of

Background imageInventor Collection: Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), France, 19th century. Creator: Romier Balançard

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), France, 19th century. Creator: Romier Balançard
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), France, 19th century

Background imageInventor Collection: Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 19th century. Creator: Michel-Marie Carquillat

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 19th century. Creator: Michel-Marie Carquillat
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 19th century

Background imageInventor Collection: Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 1839. Creator: Michel-Marie Carquillat

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 1839. Creator: Michel-Marie Carquillat
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 1839

Background imageInventor Collection: Interior of the Tube - Mr. Stephenson Driving the Last Rivet, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Interior of the Tube - Mr. Stephenson Driving the Last Rivet, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Interior of the Tube - Mr. Stephenson Driving the Last Rivet, 1850. Opening of the Britannia Tubular Bridge across the Menai Straits in Wales....a very interesting episodical proceeding took place in

Background imageInventor Collection: British Institution Exhibition - 'The First Impression' - painted by H. Selous, 1850. Creator: Smyth

British Institution Exhibition - "The First Impression" - painted by H. Selous, 1850. Creator: Smyth
British Institution Exhibition - "The First Impression" - painted by H. Selous, 1850. Engraving of a painting in a London exhibition:..one of Mr

Background imageInventor Collection: Portrait of John Ericsson (1803-1889), inventor, 1855-1865. Creator: Unknown

Portrait of John Ericsson (1803-1889), inventor, 1855-1865. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of John Ericsson (1803-1889), inventor, 1855-1865

Background imageInventor Collection: The International Exhibition: the piping bullfinch in the Swiss Court, 1862. Creator: Unknown

The International Exhibition: the piping bullfinch in the Swiss Court, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: the piping bullfinch in the Swiss Court, 1862. The success of this little vocalist is the more remarkable as his part is always a solo...and in precisely the same

Background imageInventor Collection: Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N. 1862. Creator: Unknown

Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N. 1862. Creator: Unknown
Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N. 1862. Captain Coles, of whose merits as an inventor the Admiralty has been forced into a sudden acknowledgement...witnessed the operations in the Black Sea

Background imageInventor Collection: Portrait of James Fern Webster, 1862. Creator: EH Bolt

Portrait of James Fern Webster, 1862. Creator: EH Bolt
Portrait of James Fern Webster, 1862. James Fern Webster was an engineer and prolific inventor who lived and worked in Solihull Lodge (West Midlands) in 1870-80

Background imageInventor Collection: J. Watt, (1736-1819), 1830. Creator: Unknown

J. Watt, (1736-1819), 1830. Creator: Unknown
J. Watt, (1736-1819), 1830. James Watt (1736-1819) Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist, home educated. He improved the Newcomen steam engine

Background imageInventor Collection: John Nevil Maskelyne performs a spirit cabinet illusion, c1910. Creator: Unknown

John Nevil Maskelyne performs a spirit cabinet illusion, c1910. Creator: Unknown
John Nevil Maskelyne performs a spirit cabinet illusion, c1910. How the tricks are performed - " A coach-horn or megaphone is useful for picking things up

Background imageInventor Collection: Eugene Lauste recording the first combined moving image and sound, c1905, (1935)

Eugene Lauste recording the first combined moving image and sound, c1905, (1935). Eugene Lauste may be seen already experimenting with " Talkies"

Background imageInventor Collection: Hans Jansen and his son Sacharias, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter

Hans Jansen and his son Sacharias, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
Hans Jansen and his son Sacharias, c1870. Some historians credit Sacharias Jansen, a Middelburg spectacle maker, with the invention of the telescope and the microscope

Background imageInventor Collection: Mr Stephenson putting in the last rivet, 1886

Mr Stephenson putting in the last rivet, 1886. From Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, volume I

Background imageInventor Collection: Sir Joseph Swan (1828-1914), English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912. Artist: D Cameron-Swan

Sir Joseph Swan (1828-1914), English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912. Artist: D Cameron-Swan
Sir Joseph Swan (1828-1914), English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA

Background imageInventor Collection: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist, (c1924)

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist, (c1924). On 8 November 1895, Roentgen (or Rontgen, 1845-1923) discovered what came to be known as X-rays



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