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Jacquard Loom
JACQUARD LOOM An improved version of the loom originally invented in 1804 Date: 1915

Man-powered flying machine
A man-powered flying machine in a countryside setting. The Aerostat - Worked by Manual Power - Invented by W. Miller, M.R.C.S. 1843

An Aerial honeymoon invented and patented by John F. Byrne : funniest show in the world - the huge pantomimic musical comedy. Date 19 - ?

Benjamin Franklins Experiment, flying a kite in a storm, demonstrating the identity of Lightning and Electricity, from which he invented the Lightning Rod. Date: June 1752

Testing a Maxim machine gun
Men in top hats (and one in a bowler hat) testing a Maxim machine gun. The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884

London Chess Club
Members of the City of London Chess Club playing a new game of chess, invented by Polish composer Ludomir Michal Rogowski. 81 (not 64) pieces and even a Dictator piece! Date: 3 October 1932

Steam Motorcycle

Pressure cooker demonstration. Historical artwork of Dennis Papin demonstrating his pressure cooker (La Marmite de Papin) to fishermen. Papin invented the cooker in 1681

Pressure cooker. Historical artwork of the pressure cooker, La Marmite de Papin, invented by Dennis Papin in 1681. It consists of an iron pot with a sealed lid

Parachute, 16th century
Parachute in use as a man descends from a tower, coloured 16th century engraving. The engraving entitled " Homo Volans" (flying man) seems to be the first clearly printed

Cayleys aerial carriage, 1843
Cayleys aerial carriage. Design for an aerial carriage, published in 1843 by the British engineer George Cayley (1773-1857)

Louis Bleriot, French engineer
Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French engineer, aviation pioneer and the first person to make a powered flight across the English Channel

Medical forceps, 18th century

Radio experiment, historical artwork
Radio experiment. Historical artwork of a man using a primitive antenna (electromagnets, lower left) to receive radio transmissions

Double page spread in a diary for 10-15 December
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 10-15 December. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Portrait of Christopher Pinchbeck
Undated head and shoulders mezzoprint portrait of Christopher Pinchbeck by Isaac Whood. Pinchbeck (c.1670 - November 18, 1732) was a London clockmaker and maker of musical Automata

Mavers Picnic Furnace Ad
Advertisement for Mavers Picnic Furnace. The handiest, safest & most useful article yet invented for Picnic Parties. Date: June 1931

Hairdressers Collar, 1921
Illustration showing a then-newly invented hairdressers collar and cape, which was designed to collect hair as it was being cut, 1921

E. V. Hanegan and a Pushball ball, Crystal Palace, 1902
Photograph showing E.V. Hanegan, who introduced the game of pushball to England (the sport was invented in the USA) in 1902

British Soldiers playing Bounce the Beecham, Hong Kong, 19
Series of photographs showing members of the 25th and 40th Companies of the Royal Engineers playing the Bounce the Beecham game invented by William Heath Robinson, Hong Kong, 1910

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Section of the W
There was a crisis at the Bank of England in the early nineteenth century when it was discovered that a large proportion of the 8, 000, 000 gold sovereigns in circulation were light

The Sea Messenger, 1870
Engraving of the Sea Messenger, a lifeboat designed for ships letters and papers, invented by J.A.R. Vandenbergh. As many ships carried mail and state papers

Train that runs on a single curve, the Gyroscopic car
The train that runs on a single rail. The Gyrscopic car invented by Louis Brennan, exhibited at Gillingham in Kent. The 22 ton car was designed to carry 10 to 15 tons

Belgian soldiers working a Hotchkiss machine-gun
Photograph showing two Belgian soldiers working a Hotchkiss machine-gun. The revolving barrel Hotchkiss machine-gun was invented by the American

The patent Impoulsoria, horse powered engine
An ingenious means of applying animal power to the working of railways, to supersede the costly locomotive engine. The engine, called Impulsoria

Colour transparencies being viewed on a lightbox book
A colour photograph album invented by M. P Duchenne. In 1910, technology had not enabled colour images to be printed on paper, only as glass plates

Leclanche Electric Cell
LECLANCHE CELL An early version of the battery invented by Georges Leclanche, made up of zinc in an ammonium chloride solution

The Aerophore Breathing Apparatus, 1874
Engraving of the Aerophore Breathing Apparatus, invented by the French engineer M. Denayrouze, 1874. Denayrouze designed this compressed air breathing machine for use in exploring mines full of

An anaglyph of a seaside scene
On Kentish Sands; a seaside anaglyph. Although invented some seventy years earlier, the Illustrated London News was the first publication to print 3-dimensional anaglyphs in 1924

Camera Obscura
A camera obscura, invented in 1558 by Porta, can be set up in a tent, with a lens and mirror on top and a suitable surface inside onto which the view is projected

The Hydromotor Ship, 1881
Engraving of the Hydromotor Ship, invented by Dr. Emil Fleischer of Dresden, September 1881. Instead of propellor or paddle-wheel

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

Cats Eyes on Road
A Cats Eye road marking. Cats eyes were invented in 1933 by Percy Shaw of Yorkshire, England

Bude light
A large Bude light in Trafalgar Square. Invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and patented in 1839, the light worked by introducing oxygen gas into the middle of a standard oil lamp flame

The new mechanical man
The first British robot, invented by Captain Richards and Mr. A. H. Reffell, whose first duty was to open a Model Engineering Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Hall in London in 1928

Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway
Professors Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Electric Exhibition in 1882. Ayrton and Perry met at the Imperial College of Engineering and Japan

Ayrton and Perry
Portrait engravings of Professor William Ayrton and Professor John Perry, electrical engineers. Ayrton held the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy

Milking by electricity
Illustration to show the process of milking cows with the Lawrence-Kennedy cow milker. The sketch also shows in fig.iv and v, a new hand- milking machine invented by Mr. C.S. Padfield of Bath

George Stephenson experimenting with the safety lamp in a mi
Illustration of George Stephenson (1781-1848) experimenting with his safety lamp in a mine. It was designed by Stephenson in 1815, around the same time as Humphrey Davy invented a similar lamp

Preserving life in mines, the aerophore apparatus. Invented by Mr B. Rouquayrol and Mr. Denayrouze, the Aerophone, which supplied compressed air through a hose

E Torricelli / Tomba
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer

Professors Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway
A model of a electrical railway designed by Professors Ayrton and Perry. There were a number of dynamo-electric machines in the experimental stages

Cowpers Writing Telegraph
A diagram of Cowpers writing telegraph. Invented in 1878 by William Cowper (1819-1893), the machine was able to reproduce a message written some distance away by a process of interrupted electrical

Telharmony
Series of images from 1907 showing a Telharmony machine, invented by Dr. Thaddeus Cahill. A player on the Telharmonium controls vibrating currents from a series of dynamos

Plante Accumulator
The accumulator (a secondary or storage battery) invented by French physicist Gaston Plante

Joh. Nep. Czermak
JOHANN NEPOMUK CZERMAK Czech physiologist from Prague, worked in Pesth where he invented the laryngoscope

Bunsens Battery
BUNSENs CELL A carbon-zinc electric cell invented by Robert Bunsen in 1841

Recess Dress 1826
Pink & white striped gown with long, full sleeves and 4 flounces at the hem invented by Miss Pierpoint; hat with a tall crown & broad brim, striped scarf & parasol

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