Innovation Collection (page 7)

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert arriving at the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, Kent, 1843. The Queen and Prince Consort on board the paddle steamer Trident

The Thames Tunnel under construction, London, c1835. Cross section showing the Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, being built; with a view of its position beneath the River Thames

East India Dock, Poplar, London, c1835. Artist: Vear
East India Dock, Poplar, London, c1835. View of the proposed steam navigation dock at the mouth of the River Lea showing crowds observing the paddle steamers in the dock and raising their hats

View of the Coade Stone Factory in Narrow Wall, Lambeth, London, 1801

Steam coach at Hyde Park Corner, London, c1830
View of a steam coach at Hyde Park Corner, London, 1830. The lower margin contains a key to the mechanical parts of the coach

View of a Pedestrian Hobbyhorse, 1819
View of a Pedestrian Hobbyhorse, with a description of the contraption underneath, 1819

Shillibeers first omnibus drawn by three horses, London, c1830
View of Shillibeers first omnibus drawn by three horses, London, c1830; on the left a fruit seller can be seen and in the centre a boy bowls a hoop

Patent landau, 1809
View of a patent landau, 1809

Patent chariot, 1809
View of a patent chariot, 1809

The Aeriel Ship, or Munchausen Improved!, 1835. Fantastical airship with a rudder and a complicated system of rope-activated wings

View of James Sadlers balloon over Mermaid Gardens, Hackney, London, 1811. Artist
View of James Sadlers balloon over Mermaid Gardens, Hackney, London, 1811. The balloon contains James Sadler and Captain Paget

Regents Canal, with barges, Islington, London, 1822. Artist: John Cleghorn
View of Regents Canal, London, 1822; with a barge passing through a lock. In the distance is the east entrance to the Islington Tunnel

A meeting of umbrellas, 1782. Artist: James Gillray
A meeting of umbrellas, 1782; showing three men holding umbrellas meeting and having difficulty in passing. The umbrella, only recently introduced for men, was an object of derision

Locomotion, London, c1820. Artist: George Cruikshank
Locomotion, London, c1820. In the centre a man wearing steam driven boots has ground to a halt, as the fire has gone out, below a servant attempts to start a blaze with a pair of belows

Regents Park, Marylebone, London, 1829
Interior view of the Colosseum, Regents Park, Marylebone, London, 1829; showing workmen, including painters suspended in cradles

Regents Park, Marylebone, London, 1828; scene with people driving various steam powered vehicles in Regents Park

The Inauguration - The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park 1851, c1851; showing the interior of Crystal Palace filled with people

New River Head, Finsbury, London, c1740. Artist: George Bickham
New River Head, Finsbury, London, c1740; the depiction of the first issuing of water into the New River Head, Finsbury in 1613 with a description

Vincenzo Lunardis balloon ascending from Artillery Ground, City Road, Finsbury, London, 1784
City Road, Finsbury, London, 1784; scene of Vincenzo Lunardis balloon ascending from Artillery Ground, with crowds watching below

Street Crossing Bridge, London, 1862. Proposed design for a footbridge as designed for the safety of ladies and children crossing crowded streets

Tower Bridge viewed from the River Thames, London, c1894-1931

Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London, 1851. Artist: Charles Burton
Aerial view of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park which housed the Great Exhibition in 1851

St Giles without Cripplegate, London, c1750
View of the chime machine at St Giles without Cripplegate, London, c1750

Plan and longitudinal section of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1842. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world

Wilbur Wright showing the King of Spain how is plane operates, from Petit Journal pub. March 1909 (colour lithograph). Wilbur Wright (1867-1912); King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941);

Rainhill Bridge, Chat Moss, near Liverpool, 1831. Artist: Thomas Talbot Bury
Rainhill Bridge, published 1831 (hand coloured engraving). From Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with plates of the Coaches, Machines, etc

Moorish Arch, looking from the Tunnel, 1831. Artist: Thomas Talbot Bury
Moorish Arch, looking from the Tunnel, published 1831 (hand coloured engraving). From Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with plates of the Coaches, Machines, etc

Train Number One, July 1925. A re-enactment of the first train journey, made by George Stephensons Locomotion no 1 on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825

The first experimental sale of nylon stockings, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, 25 October, 1939. Nylon was invented in 1935 by Wallace Carothers

People watching an early television transmission, c1920s. Developed by Scottish inventor. John Logie Baird (1888-1946), television was first successfully broadcast in 1924

First taxi-cab in Liverpool, Merseyside, 1906. Artist: JP Wood
First taxi-cab in Liverpool, Merseyside, 1906. The driver was not sheltered by a hood or a windsreen, the horn was bulb shaped and the bonnet had a flap to prevent overheating

Thomas Alva Edison sitting beside his invention, the phonograph, 1878. Dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park by a newspaper reporter

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call between New York and Chicago, USA, 1892. Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

The Tunnel, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1833. Artist: Thomas Talbot Bury
The Tunnel, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1833. The worlds first intercity railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830

Near Liverpool, looking towards Manchester, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1833. The worlds first intercity railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830

Taking in Water at Parkside, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1833. The worlds first intercity railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830

View of the Railway across Chat Moss, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1833. The worlds first intercity railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830

Trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1832-1833. Artist: SG Hughes
Trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1832-1833. A train of wagons (top) and a train of cattle, sheep and pigs (bottom), on the worlds first intercity railway

Warehouses etc at the end of the Tunnel towards Wapping, Liverpool, 1832-1833. The worlds first intercity railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830

Britannia Bridge, Anglesey Entrance, Wales, 1849. Artist: George Hawkins
Britannia Bridge, Anglesey Entrance, Wales, 1849. The Britannia Tubular Bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson and was completed in 1850

Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1814. From Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker, 1814

Coaches employed on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831. Artist: Henry Pyall
Coaches employed on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831. The locomotive Northumbrian, various passenger carriages and carriages for cattle. Plate 7 from Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Sky cycle below a balloon, early 1900s

Professor Samuel P Langleys aeroplane, 1903. Samuel Pierpoint Langley (1834-1906) was an American astronomer and aeronautical pioneer

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Artist: Robert Dudley
Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich

HMS Agamemnon laying the original Atlantic telegraph cable, 1857 (1866). Artist
HMS Agamemnon laying the original Atlantic telegraph cable, 1857 (1866). HMS Agamemnon was the first warship to be built with screw propulsion

Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the Great Eastern, c1857. Artist: Robert Howlett
Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the Great Eastern, c1857. Brunel (1806-1859) proposed to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company the construction of a steamship five or six times the size of any then in

Women in fur coats at a food exhibition, Wilsic, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1961. Visitors to a Danish Bacon Company open day looking at the new rotisserie machines from the Rotiss-O-Mat Ltd

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