Inventor Collection

Mr Fred McArdell who has been poultry farming on the Orkneys for the past 6 years used to find quite a lot of time on his hands, so he made himself a motor car

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE, known as Rowland Emett, was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture

The European Tour of Xavier Roberts is in full swing! He is the creator of the Cabbage Patch Kids, those cute characters who took the world by storm and won the hearts of adults and children alike

Electric Car Trials in England. The Lucas Electrathon race at Donington Park. These races started in 1979, when the first winner was William Yates. Picture taken 13th September 1980

John O Groats to Lands End In a Sinclair C5 The 10-mean Red Watch crew from Londons Chingford Fire Station is to undertake the first ever John O Groats to Lands end charity marathon using a Sinclair

Picture shows students and lecturer at Garretts Green Technical College in Birmingham pictured with their electric electronic car

The Rubik cubes inventor Professor Erno Rubik in the toy department of Harrods, autographing his cubes and new toy the Snake

Cross Channel Walker 25th August 1978 U. S. Army sgt Walter C
Cross Channel Walker 25th August 1978 U.S. Army sgt Walter C. Robinson walked into the English Channel at Folkestone at 5.30am at the start of his attempt to cross to France

Cross Channel Walker 25th August 1978 U. S. Army sgt Walter C
Cross Channel Walker 25th August 1978 U.S. Army sgt Walter C. Robinson walked into the English Channel at Folkestone at 5.30am at the start of his attempt to cross to France

Picture shows Sir Alexander Fleming, the inventor of Penicillin, with Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Picture taken circa 1st January 1950

Picture shows a car driving at The Wheel Mileage Marathon held at Mallory Park, Leicester. It is car number 46, an entrance from The Tampere University of Technology in Finland

Mr Orville Wright (right) with is sister and Mr McCoy president of the Aero Club of the United States, seen here aboard the liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse on their arrival at Plymouth

Missing inventor mystery. The "Perpetual Motion"
Missing inventor mystery. The " Perpetual Motion" machine (unfinished) invented by Mr T M Harris, who disappeared four years ago after assembling it at the motor works of Clement Talbot

Helicopter has successful flight with Marquis of Pescara. The well known Marquis of Pescara made some new attempts to fly with his famous helicopter. It made several very successful flights

The first London International Inventions Exhibition, held at Londons Royal Horticultural New Hall, Westminster. Pictured, an invention that will be a boon to anglers

Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor of the Rubiks Cube with Miss Great Britain, Michelle Hobson, at the Toy Fair in Earls Court. 1st February 1981

Lucas 2000 Electric Motor Contest. Picture shows car no: 16. " Tornado" designed by 15 year old Nicholas Grant. See other pictures in this set captioned

Lucas 2000 Electric Motor Contest. Picture shows car no: 18. Picture show Cedric Mark Lynch, aged 23, of Potters Bar, Hertfordshire with his electric motor car

15 stone Roy Stuart of Ilford, Essex, owner of a C5, can only get six miles out of his because of his size. Picture taken 10th March 1985

Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead, where Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, the great inventor, lived in 1869. It is where he carried out many early experiments on the development of the light bulb. 30th May 1931

Mr Anthony Pratt, the man who invented the board game Cleudo, lives in Leach Green Lane, Rednal

North East Festivals Graham Stevens went walking on water and got that sinking feeling. After a few steps on the lake at Exhibition Park, Newcastle

Albert Einstein Professor walking in the College Quadrangle. 1933

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was a pioneer in the development of mechanical television

William Taylor the young Kilsyth farmer who is the inventor of the flying machine named the flying flea the flying machine looks similiar to that built by the German Otto Lilienthal rear view showing

Birdman wings - Geo Ford November 1951

Marchese Marconi inventor of the wireless radio seen here at the Cowes regatta Isle of Wight August 1923

Dr Wernher Von Braun inventor of the ballistic missile (V2) and the Saturn V rocket which carried man to the moon. Seen here during a visit to the SBAC show at Farnborough in September 1970

Professor Albert Einstein in his study at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. 2nd February 1944

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was a pioneer in the development of mechanical television

The Dambuster - Dr Barnes Wallis. Wallis, the engineer who famously created the bouncing bomb that helped to destroy the German Dams along the Ruhr, a feat immortalised later on the silver screen

Professor Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt at his desk. Considered by many to be the " inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere

Up, up and away in a Dream Machine: Clear the runway, its magnificent Cliff in his flying machine. " All my own work, " said amateur inventor, Clifford Moffat

Worlds 1st pocket TV. : Sinclair Radionics. Managing Director of Sinclair Radionics, Mr. Clive Sinclair holding the worlds smallest television screen. January 1977 77-00135

Worlds 1st pocket TV. : Sinclair Radionics. Managing Director of Sinclair Radionics, Mr. Clive Sinclair holding the worlds smallest television screen. January 1977 77-00135-001

Inventor Bert Coleman shows how to play a note on his electronic mini organ. Berts invention went on to be marketed by Rolf Harris as the Stylophone

Youth. Teenager. Inventions. 16-year-old Geoffrey Jones with the revolving globe clock which he has made and patented. The clock tells the time in any part of the world simultaneously

All the year round it is Guy Fawkes day for freelance industrial designer John D. Stewart. His hobby is making and launching rockets the higher they fly the better he likes it

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