Pioneer Collection (page 7)

Napier 1905 Gordon Bennett eliminating trials, Clifford Earp. Creator: Unknown
Napier 1905 Gordon Bennett eliminating trials, Clifford Earp

1905 Peerless type 10 with Barney Oldfield. Creator: Unknown
1905 Peerless type 10 with Barney Oldfield

Paracelsus, (1493-1541), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Paracelsus, (1493-1541), 1830. Paracelsus (1493-1541) Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance, credited as the father of toxicology

John Hunter, (1728-1793), 1830. Creator: Unknown
John Hunter, (1728-1793), 1830. John Hunter (1728-1793) Scottish surgeon and scientist, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine and expert in anatomy who became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767

Coram, (c1668-1751), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Coram, (c1668-1751), 1830. Thomas Coram (c1668-1751) English philanthropist set up the London Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury by charter of King George II, to care for abandoned children

Copernicus, (1473-1543), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Copernicus, (1473-1543), 1830. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who made a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution

Giovanni Belzoni, (1778-1823), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Giovanni Belzoni, (1778-1823), 1830. Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823) Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities

Amy Johnson, 1930, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Amy Johnson, 1930, (1933). Amy Johnson reading congratulatory telegrams en route. In 1930, British aviator Johnson (1903-1941)

Crossing the River, Near Buffalo Falls, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Crossing the River, Near Buffalo Falls, 1901. Buffalo River flows through Mount Buffalo National Park in the Victorian Alps, Australia. From " Federated Australia"

General Daniel Morgan in a buckskin coat of the Virginia rangers, c1780, (1937). Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia

Amelia Earhart, 1928, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Amelia Earhart, 1928, (1935). American aviation pioneer and author Amelia Earhart (born 1897; disappeared 2 July 1937), was the first woman to to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

John Logie Baird watching the first play to be televised, 14 July 1930, (1935). Creator: Unknown
John Logie Baird watching the first play to be televised, 14 July 1930, (1935). Mr. John L. Baird watching Pirandellos The Man with the Flower in his Mouth, the first play to be televised

The foreign tourists in Leningrad. Found in the Collection of State Museum- and exhibition Centre ROSIZO, Moscow

Sir Alan J. Cobham, A. F. C. 1927. Creator: Unknown
Sir Alan J. Cobham, A.F.C. 1927.Sir Alan J Cobham (1874-1973) English pilot and long distance aviation pioneer. From " A Series of 25 Famous Men - Carreras High-Class Cigarettes" [London

Emigration to the Western Country, (1877). Creator: Albert Bobbett
Emigration to the Western Country, (1877). Pioneers in covered wagons travelling to the western United States. From " Our Country: a Household History for All Readers

M. Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1902. Creator: Unknown
M. Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1902. From " The Windsor Magazine Vol. XVI - June to November 1902". [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London, 1902]

N. Copernicus, (late 18th early 19th century). Creator: J Chapman
N. Copernicus, (late 18th early 19th century). Portrait of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), considered to be the father of modern astronomy and founder of heliocentric cosmology

Sir Isaac Newton, c1700, (early-mid 19th century). Creator: William Thomas Fry
Sir Isaac Newton, c1700, (early-mid 19th century). Portrait of English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Grahame White and Mr. Churchill, 1910, (1945). Creator: Unknown
Grahame White and Mr. Churchill, 1910, (1945). British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), second from left, with aviation pioneers Claude Grahame-White, second from right

Elly Beinhorn with her plane, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Elly Beinhorn with her plane, 1932. Beinhorn (1907-2007) was one of Germanys most distinguished female aviators. In 1931 she crash-landed in the Sahara on the way to Portuguese Guinea

The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1932). Creator: Unknown
The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1932). The inventor Fauste Veranzio (Faust Vrancic) developed a parachute after studying Leonardo da Vincis sketches of one

Caprettis flying machine, 1877, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Caprettis flying machine, 1877, (1932). Italian inventor Ignazio Teodoro Capretti with his winged contraption. From " Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air)

Sea sled Miss England at mooring, 1922. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Claude Grahame-White in his experimental 45-foot power sledge, Miss England, 3 Sept 1922. Miss England was built of wood by the Cowes firm of S.E. Saunders in 1921

The 40 ft hydroplane Pioneer under way. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The 40 ft hydroplane Pioneer under way. Pioneer was an English boat, owned by the Duke of Westminster, and challenged America for possession of the Harmsworth International Trophy in 1910

Sea sled Miss England under way, 1922. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Claude Grahame-White in his experimental 45-foot power sledge, Miss England, 3 Sept 1922. Miss England was built of wood by the Cowes firm of S.E. Saunders in 1921

Sea sled Miss England at anchor, 1922. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Claude Grahame-White in his experimental 45-foot power sledge, Miss England, 3 Sept 1922. Miss England was built of wood by the Cowes firm of S.E. Saunders in 1921

Railway station in Barcelona in 1848, pioneer in the peninsula, engraving from the time

Chuck Berry, Capital Jazz, Alexandra Palace, London, 1979. Artist: Brian O Connor
Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, Capital Jazz, Alexandra Palace, London, 1979

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);

The Pioneers Home on the Western Frontier, pub. 1867, Currier & Ives (Colour Lithograph)

The Club Room of Zermatt in 1864, 19th century. Artist: James Mahoney
The Club Room of Zermatt in 1864, 19th century. A group of the most prominent alpinists of the Golden Age of alpine climbing. From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper

Wilbur Wright and his sister, Katherine, 1909
Wilbur Wright, American aviator and his sister, Katherine, 1909. Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and his brother Orville (1871-1948), were American inventors of aircraft

Sky cycle below a balloon, early 1900s

The Wright Brothers testing an early plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, c1903. Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948)

American aviator Glenn Curtiss making the first heavier-than-air flight in his June Bug, 1908
American aviator Glenn Curtiss making his first heavier-than-air flight in his June Bug, 1908. On 4 July 1908 at Hammondsport, New York, Curtiss (1878-1930) won a $25

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

Simon Kenton, American frontiersman, 19th century. Artist: Richard W Dodson
Simon Kenton, American frontiersman, 19th century. Kenton (1755-1836) was a contemporary and friend of Daniel Boone, whose life he saved at the siege of Boonesborough in 1778 during the American

Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter, (19th century). Artist: James Barton Longacre
Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter, (19th century). Daniel Boone (1736-1813) became a popular folk hero for his exploits beyond the western frontier of the Thirteen Colonies

The Open Door, March, 1843. Artist: William Henry Fox Talbot
The Open Door, March, 1843

Cover for the childrens book The Childrens International, 1926. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Pioneers of the Imperial Guards Corps, 1867. Artist: Piratsky, Karl Karlovich (1813-1889)
Pioneers of the Imperial Guards Corps, 1867. From a private collection

Pioneers, invalides and gendarmes of the Imperial Guards Corps, 1867. Artist: Piratsky, Karl Karlovich (1813-1889)
Pioneers, invalides and gendarmes of the Imperial Guards Corps, 1867. From a private collection

Be ready to support the deeds of the Communist party! - Always ready!, 1926. Artist: Anonymous
Be ready to support the deeds of the Communist party! - Always ready!, 1926. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Amy Johnson, British aviator, about to set out for Cape Town, 1932. Artists: Unknown, James Mollison
Amy Johnson, British aviator, about to set out for Cape Town, 1932. Johnson (1903-1941) saying goodbye to her husband, fellow pilot James Mollison, before starting off

Observatory of Sir William Huggins, K. C. B. Tulse Hill, 1904
Observatory of Sir William Huggins, K.C.B. Tulse Hill, 1904. Sir William Huggins OM KCB PRS (1824-1910) was an English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy

Guglielmo Marconi and David Sarnoff, 1933. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) Italian radio pioneer, right, and David Sarnoff (1891-1971)

Mr James Allen, c1905, (1912). Artist: Phillips & Lee
Mr James Allen, c1905, (1912). James Allen (1864-1912) a British philosophical writer, a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh published in 1903

Captain John Smith, Virginia colonist, 1624, (1893). Smith (1580-1631) established the first permanent English colony in North America, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607

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