Invention posters & prints

Traction Engine or Steam Car Invented by M. Lotz from Nantes Anonymous

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom, c1850 Unknown

A New Walking Invention Anonymous

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call between New York and Chicago Anonymous

Thomas Edison, American inventor Anonymous

Idea for a video-phone using neon tubes to give the picture display, c1927 Unknown

Invention of the Lifeboat, Willie Wouldhave, South Shields, 1789, 1896 Ralph Hedley

Thomas Edison's improved form of JW Trowbridge's electric dynamometer, 1879 Unknown

Steam engine by James Watt, 1915 Anonymous

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931). American Inventor Anonymous

James Nasmyth's steam hammer E Zimmer

Engraving Of Renaissance Inventions Anonymous

Universal joint invented by Robert Hooke, 1676 Unknown

Inventions from Times Gone by Anonymous

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1906 Unknown

Newcomen steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712 Anonymous

Samuel Colt (1814-1862), inventor of the Colt revolver, 1856 Unknown

Faraday's Induction Machine Anonymous

First Sewing Machine Developed Elias Howe

The International Inventions Exhibition, Kensington, London, August 1885 Unknown

Diesel engine: internal combustion engine invented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897 (c1910) Unknown

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Olive Oil Press, p…, ca. 1600 Jan Collaert I

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1879 Unknown

Invention of the Incandescent Electric Lightbulb Edison

Opening of the International Inventions Exhibition at South Kensington by the Prince of Wales, London, 1885 Anonymous

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, with his phonograph Anonymous

Sundry New-invented Implements J Pass

Courting by telephone across Paris, 1883 Unknown

Invention charivarique, 1868 Honoré Daumier

Title Page for Nouvelles inventions de Cartouches, 1647 Stefano Della Bella

Davy's electric egg, 1883 Unknown

The Invention of Drawing (recto), Sketch of Lower Leg Bones of Human Skeleton (verso) Joseph-Benoît Suvée

Armstrong's Electric Machine Anonymous

William Lee, English inventor of the frame-knitting machine, 19th century Unknown

Winan's Steam Battery Invented by Dickinson 1861 Anonymous

Weaving shed fitted with Jacquard power looms, c1880 Unknown