Invention Collection (page 7)

Automatic telephone exchange, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Modern cinema operating box, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

30-ton treasury door, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

In a Large Telephone Exchange, c1916. Women telephonists working at the Throgmorton Avenue Telephone Exchange in the City of London

The Engine Room of a Holland Submarine, c1916. The Holland-class were the first submarines built for the Royal Navy. They were built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness

Vincent Lunardis Second Balloon: (May 3, 1785), 1937
Vincent Lunardis Second Balloon: May 3, 1785. Vicenzo Lunardi was a pioneering Italian aeronaut, born in Lucca. After a water-colour drawing by J. Dighton. From The Connoisseur, 1937

The Drake Well, Pennsylvania, America, 1859. Drilled by Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819-1880) in 1859, it is the first commercial oil well in the United States

The Ediswan Pointolite, c1916. The Edison and Swan Electric Light Company Limited was an English manufacturer of incandescent lamp bulbs and other electrical goods

The First Incandescent Electric Lamp, c1916. Early carbon and rod filament incandescent electric lamp 1878-9. Made by the English chemist, Joseph Swan (1827-1914)

The First Parsons Turbo-Electric Generating Station, c1916. A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam

Thomsons Lantern, 19th century(?)

Bells telephone in operation, late 19th century. Artist: Gilbert
Bells telephone in operation, late 19th century. Scottish-born American inventor Bell (1847-1922) filed the patent for his telephone at the United States Patent Office at 3pm on 14 February 1876

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian pioneer of wireless telegraphy, Signal Hall, Newfoundland, 1901 (1951). Marconi with the instruments with which he received the first transatlantic wireless signals on 12th

Thomas Edison, American inventor, c1878 (1956). Edison (1847-1931) aged thirty-one, with an early model of his phonograph

The first pneumatic tyre, 1845 (1956). Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) a Scottish inventor, first patented the pneumatic tyre in 1845

Design for hinged canal lockgates by Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century (1956). A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common

Pressure cooker, 1688 (1956). From Denis Papins La maniere d amolir les os. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common

Newcomens steam engine for draining mines, 1956. Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) designed his atmospheric or steam engine in 1712

Page from a Gutenberg Bible, c1455 (1956). Johann Gutenberg (c1398-1468) is regarded as the inventor of movable type. In 1455 he produced the first large printed book, the Gutenberg Bible

Crugers azimuth quadrant, 1673 (1956). Artist: A Steck
Crugers azimuth quadrant, 1673 (1956). Peter Cruger (1580-1639) was a German mathematician, astronomer and polymath. He taught the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius

Guillotine, 1956. The guillotine is named after Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a National Assembly member who headed the committee charged with finding a new means of executing condemned people quickly

Edisons incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery, 1882 (1956). Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Photographic gun designed by Etienne Jules Marey, 1882 (1956). Marey (1830-1904) was a French physiologist who pioneered the use of photography to record and analyse movement

Taking a Daguerreotype, 1855 (1956). The Daguerreotype system of photography was invented by French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre in 1839

Panhard and Levassors petrol driven motor car, 1892 (1956). French engineers and inventors Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor became partners in 1886

Thomas Ricketts steam carriage, 1860 (1956). Rickett, a Birmingham maker of agricultural implements, built a steam-powered plough in 1858

Design for an aerial steam carriage, 1843 (1956). William Henson, a follower of English aviation pioneer Sir George Cayley, patented his proposed Aerial Steam Carriage in 1842

Louis Lumiere, French photographer and cinematographer, 1937. In collaboration with his brother Auguste, Louis Lumiere (1864-1948) was a pioneer of cinematography

Etienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and pioneer of cinematography, 1901. Marey (1830-1904) was a French physiologist who pioneered the use of photography to record and analyse movement

Proposed method of warming and ventilating a house, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson

Nasmyths patent steam hammer, 1866. The steam hammer was invented by the Scottish engineer and inventor James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

Cramptons railway locomotive engine, 1866. Artist: GB Smith
Cramptons railway locomotive engine, 1866. The locomotive represented by this model was designed and built by Thomas Russell Crampton for the Northern Railway of France

Bishopps rotary steam engine or disc engine, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II

Watts wagon-boiler, 1866. This type of boiler was invented by James Watt in 1785. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering

Cornish or single acting pumping engine, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II

The working parts of James Watts double acting engine, 1866. Watt patented the double-acting steam engine, in which the piston pulls as well as pushes, in 1782

Machine for separating starch from potatoes, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II

Double cylinder printing machine, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co

Applegaths Times vertical printing machine, 1866. Diagram of the machine invented by Applgarth for the printing of The Times newspaper

Paper making machine, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co, London, 1866

Bellows-bodied camera, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co, London

Lighthouse revolving dioptric apparatus, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II

Cork waist life belt, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co, London, 1866

Greenwoods Wood Sawing Machine, 1886

Harrisons Pneumatic Loom, 1886

Howes Sewing Machine, by Thomas, 1866

Sugar Mill and Steam Engine, 1866

Ramsbottoms Express Passenger Engine, 1866

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