Invents Collection

Electric Tattooer
Max O Reilly, of New York, invents an electric tattooing pen which is not only faster than the manual method, but also less painful

FULTON (1765 - 1815)
ROBERT FULTON American inventor; in Paris 1797-1806 he invents a submarine but fails to interest Napoleon Date: 1765 - 1815

Faust Invents Printing
The German occult philosopher Johann Faustus was sometimes credited with having invented printing : here he shows his wife the letters ABC printed from a wood block Date: circa 1530

A wasted life: satire on the invention of tanks, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II chides Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer, for not inventing anything useful, like the armoured tanks of the allies. Date: 1916

Callimachus invents the Corinthian pillar order, Lambertus Antonius Claessens, 1803

Keelers Lie Detector
Leonard Keeler, of North Western University, USA, invents a lie detector based on blood pressure Date: 1937

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

H. W. Longfellow: Hiawatha
Hiawatha invents the pictogram which he carves onto a tree

Franklin & Lighting 1758
He invents the lightning rod to channel lightning into the earth and so protect buildings from lightning damage

Ives Colour TV Project
H E Ives, of New York, invents a television system using natural colour

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From the quill to the electric tattooer: A journey through the annals of invention. Discover the intriguing tales behind Fulton's steamship and Faust's printing press, the satirical take on war machinery with A Wasted Life on tanks in WW1, Callimachus' Corinthian pillar order, and Lambertus Antonius Claessens' deceptive Keeler lie detector. Witness the groundbreaking strides of Louis Bleriot, the French engineer who took flight, and the poetic musings of H. W. Longfellow's Hiawatha. Delve into the enlightening era of Franklin's lightning discovery, and the colorful future envisioned by Ives' Color TV Project.