Innovation Collection (page 8)

Danish Bacon (wholesale) meeting for grocers from the Doncaster area, South Yorkshire, 1961. The Danish Bacon Company organised this meeting of grocers from the Doncaster area at Wilsic Cricket Club

Marketing strategy meeting, Danish Bacon Company, Wilsic, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1961. In an effort to boost sales of their products

Four star metric bacon, 1966. Artist: Michael Walters
Four star metric bacon, 1966. A photograph illustrating the four star method of bacon buying and the new metric system

New metric system of selling bacon, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966. A customer look bewildered as the new metric sytem is explained to her at Cranshaws Store in Stocksbridge

Viewing new barbeque ovens, Wilsic, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist
Viewing new barbeque ovens, Wilsic, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1961. At a sales incentives day run by the Danish Bacon Company

The new metric system of selling bacon, 1966. Artist: Michael Walters
The new metric system of selling bacon, 1966

The new metric system of buying food, Stocksbridge, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966. A mother and two children have the new metric sytem explained to them at a tradittional butchers shop in

The exterior of Carlines Self Service Store, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1960. Artist
The exterior of Carlines Self Service Store, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1960. This is a good example of the kind of self service retail outlet which was being developed during the 1950s and 1960s

British Steel staff using the latest Rank Xerox copiers, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1962

Gas, Your Silent Servant, Gas Board exhibition, Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, 1961. The Gas Board, always in competition with the locally produced coal gas

The new generation of cash and carry, Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, 1960. As the country entered a new decade, there became a rush on the high street to create the self service store

Tower Bridge, London. The construction of the bridge was begun in 1881 to designs by Sir Horace Jones and it opened in 1894

Steam clock Ariadne, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. This steam powered clock on the waterfront of St Helier was built to commemorate the Ariadne

Title Page of the Geneva Bible, 1614, (1947). Page of Geneva Bible, English reprint, 1614. From The English Bible, by Sir Herbert Grierson [Collins, London, 1947]

Self-Portrait, 1659. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Self-Portrait, 1659. The painting is part of the Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. From Masterpieces of Painting, edited by Huntington Cairns and John Walker

Horizontal Bicycle, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Italian Velocino Bicycle, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Dursley Pedersen Cantilever Bicycle, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

The First Pneumatic-Tyred Bicycle, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Lawsons Bicyclette, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Michaux Velocipede, 1865, (1939). From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, demonstrating his electric pile (battery), c1800 (c1870). Voltas (1745-1827) voltaic pile, an early form of battery, was the first source of current electricity

Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. - Selbstbildnis, 1934
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. 1934. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath

Johann Gutenberg 1400-1468, 1934. Johann Gutenberg (1400-1468), German metalworker and inventor who invented a method of printing from movable type. From Die Groszen der Weltgelchichte

Peter der Grosze 1672-1725, 1934. Artists: Unknown, Peter the Great
Peter der Grosze 1672-1725, 1934. Peter I, the Great (1672-1725), Tsar of Russia. Peter became Tsar in 1682. He embarked on a campaign to modernise and Europeanise Russia, socially

Marconi - Geb. 1874, 1934. Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874-1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission

Thomas Alba Edison 1847-1931, 1934. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman, who has been described as Americas greatest inventor

Werner von Siemens 1816-1892. Gemalde von Lenbach, 1934
Werner von Siemens 1816-1892, 1934. Ernst Werner Siemens (1816-1892), German inventor and industrialist. Siemenss name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens

Wilhelm von Rontgen 1845-1923, 1934. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923), German mechanical engineer and physicist, who produced

Ascension of a Montgolfier balloon, late 18th century, (1910). Illustration from The Connoisseur, (August 1910). (Colorised black and white print)

Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer, c1880. Works owner Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt (1736-1819)

Johann Gutenberg, German metalworker and inventor, 16th century, (1870). An engraving of Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) who invented a method of printing from movable type

Maxim machine gun, c1895. The engineer Hiram Maxim developed the first fully automatic machine gun (1884) which he offered to the United States War and Navy departments

Coventry Rotary Tricycle, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Sawyers Velocipede, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Macmillans Lever-Driven Bicycle, 1839, (1939). From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]

Galilei 1564-1642, 1934. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher and mathematician. From Die Groszen der Weltgelchichte

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630, 1934. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution

The first balloon ascent, c1785 (1919). Joseph-Michel (1740-1810) and Jacques-Etienne (1745-1799) Montgolfier developed a hot air balloon in Annonay, Ardeche, France

Method of refuelling aircraft devised by Sir Alan Cobham, c1936 (c1937). Alan John Cobham (1894-1973) was an English aviation pioneer

Aerial equipment on the Imperial Airways liner Hengist, c1936 (c1937). Artist: Marconis Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd
Aerial equipment on the Imperial Airways liner Hengist, c1936 (c1937). The round aerial is part of the homing radio system, one of the first aerial directional finding systems

The Hafner Gyroplane, c1935 (c1937). The Hafner AR III Gyroplane, a British autogyro designed by Austrian Raoul Hafner (1905-1980), and built by the AR III Construction Company at Denham

In the Post Office Central Telephone Exchange, City of London, c1903 (1903)
Receiving calls in the Post Office Central Telephone Exchange, City of London, c1903 (1903). The Faraday Building was the General Post Offices first telephone exchange in London

Crystal Palace, Sydenham, c1910. The Crystal Palace erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851

Tower Bridge, London, c1910. This picture shows the bascules open for a steamer to pass through. The raising of these bascules occupies only two minutes

The Tower Bridge, London, c1910. [Hartmann, London, c1910]

Advertisement for all-steel Citroen cars, c1924

Caxton showing the first specimen of his printing to King Edward IV at Westminster, c1477 (1905)
William Caxton showing the first specimen of his printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster, c1477 (1905). From Cassells History of England, Vol

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