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  • Telegraphy: four different inventors' telegraph machines [on exhibition in Paris?]. Wood engraving, (1889?) by Poyet.
  • Maker Faire UK : a two day festival of hackers, crafters, coders, DIYers and garden shed inventors / Life Science Centre.
  • Maker Faire UK : a two day festival of hackers, crafters, coders, DIYers and garden shed inventors / Life Science Centre.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men, gathered in a room at Buckingham Palace. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men: a key to the identities of the sitters. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • The different orders and congregations of the Augustinian order, inscription of the inventors of the programme Marcantonio Viani and Paulus Vadovita. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • The different orders and congregations of the Augustinian order, inscription of the inventors of the programme Marcantonio Viani and Paulus Vadovita. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Pewter spoon, signed Gibson, inventor.
  • Three vignettes relating to Georges Fattet the inventor of false teeth. Lithograph.
  • Portrait of A. Higginson, 1808-1884. Inventor of the Higginson syringe. 1/2 tone head and shoulders.
  • Michael Faraday (right) with John Frederick Daniell (inventor of the electrochemical cell). Copy photograph after the 1843 original.
  • Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric chain for personal use : (inventor and patentee- J.L. Pulvermacher) ... / Charles Meinig.
  • Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric chain for personal use : (inventor and patentee- J.L. Pulvermacher) ... / Charles Meinig.
  • Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric chain for personal use : (inventor and patentee- J.L. Pulvermacher) ... / Charles Meinig.
  • Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric chain for personal use : (inventor and patentee- J.L. Pulvermacher) ... / Charles Meinig.
  • Portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering [1755 - 1830], physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor, who discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye.
  • A blind man at a football match in London, following the game using a board representing a pitch and players, assisted by the board's inventor. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • Read Doctor Burdizzo's message overleaf : the inventor and sole maker of the famous trade "Burdizzo" mark pincers : for bloodless castration of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats.
  • Read Doctor Burdizzo's message overleaf : the inventor and sole maker of the famous trade "Burdizzo" mark pincers : for bloodless castration of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats.
  • De lactibus sive lacteis venis novo invento Gasparis Asellii / Presentazione di Pietro Franceschini.
  • "Burdizzo" pincers for the bloodless castration of sheep, bulls, pigs, horses, dogs, etc. : recommended by the veterinary surgeons ... : inventor and sole maker: Dr. N. Burdizzo, Turin (Italy).
  • "Burdizzo" pincers for the bloodless castration of sheep, bulls, pigs, horses, dogs, etc. : recommended by the veterinary surgeons ... : inventor and sole maker: Dr. N. Burdizzo, Turin (Italy).
  • To J. H. Clark : inventor and patentee : the practical game foods & medicines manufacturer : game and poultry biscuit meals and dog & puppy biscuit manufacturers and pheasant breeder.
  • To J. H. Clark : inventor and patentee : the practical game foods & medicines manufacturer : game and poultry biscuit meals and dog & puppy biscuit manufacturers and pheasant breeder.
  • De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia. Ubi de eorum confectione, ac usu, seu de effectibus agitur, novaque quaedam circa ea proponuntur. Accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum / Authore Petro Borello.
  • Saint Jerome in a landscape. Etching by H. van Swanevelt.
  • M0006711: Portrait of Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
  • Engineering: an assortment of tools. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after H. Cocking.
  • Engineering: a chuck for a lathe, and a stopcock. Engraving by G. Gladwin after J. Clements.
  • Hydraulics: a hydro-pneumatic workbench. Engraving by A. W. Warren after R. Cocking.