Patent Collection

Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Egg Packaging, 1915. Labels for sending eggs and empty egg boxes through the post. When Tag is attached from one end the string cancels address not in use; Place Forward Postage Here; Forward

Int. Patent office, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Int. Patent office, between 1910 and 1920
Int. Patent office, between 1910 and 1920. [Interior, USA]

Steam Sewing-Machines, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Steam Sewing-Machines, 1854. The machine-room of the firm of Holloway, Crowe, and Holloway, ...wholesale clothes manufacturers, Stroud, Gloucestershire...Here are twenty machines in work

Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Labels for sending eggs and empty egg boxes through the post. When Tag is attached from one end the string cancels address not in use; Place Forward Postage Here;

Edward B. Moore, Commissioner of Patents - At Desk, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Edward B
Edward B. Moore, Commissioner of Patents - At Desk, 1912. [Edward Bruce Moore, US Patent Office]

Edward B. Moore, Commissioner of Patents - At Desk, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Edward B
Edward B. Moore, Commissioner of Patents - At Desk, 1912. [Edward Bruce Moore, US Patent Office]

Edward B. Moore, Commissioner of Patents - At Desk, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Edward B
Edward B. Moore, Commissioner of Patents - At Desk, 1912. [Edward Bruce Moore, US Patent Office]

The International Exhibition: patent viceroy hansom cab by Evans, of Liverpool, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: patent viceroy hansom cab by Evans, of Liverpool, 1862. Mr. James Evans, of Tarlton-street, Liverpool, has just introduced an improved patent cab

The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-composing machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-composing machine, 1862. The compositor is in shape a right-angled triangle, placed horizontally

The International Exhibition: patent folding furniture by Mannstein of Vienna, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: patent folding furniture by Mannstein of Vienna, 1862. Precursor of flat-pack furniture. From "Illustrated London News", 1862

The International Exhibition: Fowler's patent four-furrow steam-plough, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Fowler's patent four-furrow steam-plough, 1862. The first aim was to show the superiority of steam to horse power in the inversion and cultivation of the soil

The late Mr. Henry Fourdrinier, the Patentee of the Paper-Making Machine, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The late Mr. Henry Fourdrinier, the Patentee of the Paper-Making Machine, 1854. Portrait of British entrepreneur Henry Fourdrinier

The International Exhibition: Spencer's patent magnetic purifying-filter, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Spencer's patent magnetic purifying-filter, 1862. This filter has secured for its inventor, Mr

The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-distributing machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-distributing machine, 1862. The distributor is a small machine of circular form

Lord's patent loading-chamber, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Lord's patent loading-chamber, 1862....a most simple, durable, and inexpensive little contrivance recently invented and patented by Mr. W. B. Lord, of the Royal Artillery

Portrait of Armat Stoddart (1842-1910), Before 1892. Creator: George Prince
Portrait of Armat Stoddart (1842-1910), Before 1892

John Stevens, c. 1830. Creator: Unknown
John Stevens, c. 1830

Francis Patrick Garvan, 1921. Creator: Philip A de Laszlo
Francis Patrick Garvan, 1921

Oscar Wilde, 1882. Creator: Napoleon Sarony
Oscar Wilde, 1882

Sir Oliver Lodge, F. R. S. D. Sc. 1927. Creator: Unknown
Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S. D.Sc. 1927. Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940), British physicist and scientist, identified a patent for electromagnetic radiation

Patent Landau, 1809. Creator: Unknown
Patent Landau, 1809. Horse-drawn vehicle designed by Anglo-German polymath Rudolph Ackermann, who as well as being a coach-builder, was also a bookseller, inventor, lithographer

Patent landau, 1809
View of a patent landau, 1809

Patent chariot, 1809
View of a patent chariot, 1809

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

Eves Patent Steam Engine, 1827. Artist: J Pass
Eves Patent Steam Engine, 1827

Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer, (c1924). Howe (1819-1867) did not invent the sewing machine (that was Charles Fredrick Weisenthal) but, on September 10 1846

Elisha Gray, American inventor, presenting the caveat for his telephone, 1876, (c1890). Gray (1835-1901) arrived at the US Patent Office at 4pm on 14 February 1876

Woman using sewing machine patented by Elias Howe [c1878]
Woman using sewing machine patented by Elias Howe. [c1878]. Howe, an American inventor (1819-1867), patented the first lock-stitch sewing machine in 1846. From Adams Illustrated Panorama of History

Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), British physicist, 19th century
Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), British physicist. Pioneer in electrical resistances. Along with partner William Cooke, responsible for the invention of the electric telegraph, 19th century

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstones five-needle telegraph, patented 1837, (19th century)
William Cooke (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstones (1802-1875) five-needle telegraph. Patented 1837, installed 1839, (19th century)

Diagram of William Cooke and Charles Wheatstones five-needle telegraph, 1837, (19th century)
Diagram of William Cooke (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstones (1802-1875) five-needle telegraph. Patented 1837, installed 1839, (19th century)

Tin of Colonel golf balls, c1909. St. Mungo made the first Colonel golf balls in 1909. This tin would have contained twelve balls

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