Invention Collection (page 8)

Osbornes Copying Camera, 1866

Regenerative Hot-Blast Stove, 1866

Indicator and Communicator, 1866

The Electric Light Apparatus, 1866

Steam Derrick, 1866

Crabtrees Card Setting Machine, 1866

Macindoes Self Acting Mule, 1866

Boultons Screw Coining Press, As Used in the Royal Mint, 1866. Artist: Joseph Wilson Lowry
Boultons Screw Coining Press, As Used in the Royal Mint, 1866

Marking Machine, 1866

Cottons Patent Automaton Balance. With Pilchers Improvements, 1866. Artist: William Cotton
Cottons Patent Automaton Balance. With Pilchers Improvements, 1866

Cutting out Press, 1866

Improved Balance (To Weigh 2000 Ounces. ), 1866. Artist: Joseph Wilson Lowry
Improved Balance (To Weigh 2000 Ounces.), 1866

Aerated Bread Machine, 1866

Anemometer at the Kew Observatory, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, Vol III, Virtue and Co, City Road and Ivy Lane, London, 1866

The Displacement Sinking and Rising Submarine Boat Nautilus, 1887. Working by electric power. Designed by Andrew Campbell and James Ash, this British submarine underwent trials off Tilbury in 1886

Pieter van Musschenbroek and Andreas Cunaeus, Dutch scientists, c1870. Artist: CL van Kesteren
Pieter van Musschenbroek and Andreas Cunaeus, Dutch scientists, c1870. In 1745, Musschenbroek and his student, Cunaeus, invented a cheap and convenient device for storing an electric charge

Electrostatic machines, 1819. Dr van Marums machine and Mr Reids improved machine. In the 1780s Dutch scientist Martin van Marum built his electriseermachine for use in electrical experiments

Cog wheels (detail), late 15th or early 16th century (1954). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Cog wheels (detail), late 15th or early 16th century (1954). Codex Atlanticus, 372r-b. A print from Leonardo da Vinci by Ludwig H Heydenreich, Macmillan, London, 1954

Sketch of a rolling mill, c1500-1510 (1954). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Sketch of a rolling mill, c1500-1510 (1954). Codex Atlanticus, 2r. A print from Leonardo da Vinci by Ludwig H Heydenreich. (London, 1954)

Electricity, c1891
Electricity. Various aspects of electricity and electrical apparatus, including Edelmanns Quarter-Cylinder Electrometer (1), Leyden Jar (2), Wimshurst Influence Machine (3), Electrophorus (4, 5)

Launching a paravane from the battleship HMS Rodney, 1937. Invented by Charles Dennistoun Burney, the paravane was designed as a countermeasure against enemy naval mines

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor, 19th century. Bell (1847-1922), who patented the telephone in 1876, as a young man. (Colorised black and white print)

The spinning mule, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

Nasmyths steam hammer at work, (c1880). Artist: Roberts
Nasmyths steam hammer at work, (c1880). The steam hammer was invented by the Scottish engineer and inventor James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

Thomas Highs spinning jenny, (c1880). Highs (1718-1803) invented a version of the spinning jenny. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin

Miss Calash drawn by Miss Calash, 1778. Artist: Miss Calash
Miss Calash drawn by Miss Calash, 1778. Woman wearing a large folding hood to protect her elaborate hairstyle. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

The First English Printer, 15th century, (c1850). William Caxton, (1422-1492), was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of Gabelsberger shorthand, (1900)
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, 19th century German inventor of a system of shorthand, (1900). Born in Munich, Gabelsberger (1789-1849) devised the system of shorthand writing that is named after him

Isaac Pitman, 19th century British inventor of a system of shorthand writing, 1900. Pitman (1813-1897) developed the most widely used system of shorthand, which is named after him

Sundry New-invented Implements, 1810. Artist: J Pass
Sundry New-invented Implements, 1810

James Nasmyths steam hammer, 1900. Artist: E Zimmer
James Nasmyths steam hammer, 1900. The steam hammer was invented by the Scottish engineer and inventor James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and astronomer, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and astronomer, 1877. Nasmyth is best known for his invention of the steam hammer. From Men of Mark

Perillus condemned to the bronze bull by Phalaris, 16th century, (1870). Artist: Pierre Woeiriot de Bouze
Perillus condemned to the bronze bull by Phalaris, 16th century, (1870). A wood engraving of Phalaris (c570 BC), tyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily

First aerial voyage by Charles and Robert, Paris, France, 1783 (1890s). On 1 December 1783, French aeronauts Jacques Charles (1746-1823) and Noel Robert made the first manned (free flight)

First aerial voyage of Pilatre de Rozier and d Arlandes, Paris, France, 1783 (1890s). On 21 November 1783, Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier (1754-1785) and Francois Laurent d Arlandes (1742-1809)

Jacques Charles launches his first aerostat from the Champ de Mars, Paris, 1783 (1890s). French aeronauts Jacques Charles (1746-1823)

First test flight of a hot air balloon at Annonay, France, 4 June, 1783 (1890s). Enthusiastic crowds watching the first unmanned test flight by brothers Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier

The Montgolfier brothers, French ballooning pioneers, (1890s). Joseph Michel (1740-1810) and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799)

American inventor Thomas Alva Edison on board an electric railroad, 1892. Edison constructed a three-mile-long trial electric railroad at his Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey

Artillery against the Hailstorm, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 7th July 1901

Inventions, The print works, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 2nd June 1901

Leon Bollees Voiturette car, 1896. Artist: Henri Meyer
Leon Bollees Voiturette car, 1896. Leon Bollee (1870-1913) was a French automobile manufacturer and inventor. He invented his three-wheeled Voiurette in 1895

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 19th century American inventor, (1900). Morse (1791-1872) was the inventor of the first functional electric telegraph (1835) and, with Alexander Bain (1810-1977)

The Age of the Reformation, (1872), 1900. Artist: Benoist
The Age of the Reformation, (1872), 1900

Sir David Brewster, 19th century Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. Artist: DJ Pound
Sir David Brewster, 19th century Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. In 1816 Brewster (1781-1868) invented the kaleidoscope

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch pioneer of microscopy, (1813). Artist: J Chapman
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch pioneer of microscopy, (1813). It was probably as a result of his use of lenses in examining cloth as a drapers apprentice that led to Leeuwenhoeks interest in lens

Miners safety lamp, 1833. Artist: Jackson
Miners safety lamp, 1833. Humphry Davys invention of 1815, the miners safety lamp, which enabled deeper, more gaseous seams to be mined without risk of explosion

Song on the aerostatic sphere, 18th century. Commemorating the Montgolfier Brothers balloon experiment in the garden of M Reveillon on 19 October 1783

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