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Paper Bag Making Machine, 1881
Edgar Stocking (Inventor)
mixed media 9 x 17 x 9 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Alan and Ann Rothschild
2011.37.13
The theme for this issue was fashion history between 1900-1900. To illustrate the history, we added close up images of items that were invented at that time as a backdrop to the fashion clothes.
Photography by Mads
Styling by Paul
Make-up by Huan
Hair by Crazy Nhoc
Modelling by Kat (Anh Thu)
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#6 Sir William Armstrong ~ The 110 ton gun
"Arago annonce la découverte de Daguerre, dans la séance publique de l'Académie des sciences, du 19 août 1839", illustration de Yan d'Argent in Louis Figuier, "La Photographie", Les Merveilles de la Science, vol. III, 1867, p. 41.
Not an "invention", per se, but a diagram. This was drawn when I was 8 years old and in the third grade. I *loved* drawing diagrams and schematics of all kinds.
This is a picture of a bike I actually had; I remember being obsessed with the hand brakes and was very careful when drawing this to show them and the wires that connected to them. However, I apparently managed to draw the chain floating in mid-air and not actually connecting to the pedals.
My friend, Jim Davis, invented the self start system used today for all top fuel motors. In the early 70's Jim was building dragster chassis in his Concord,CA shop. A top fuel driver himself, the practice at the time was to push start the dragster from the starting line, make a u-turn on the track (no reverse yet) and return to stage and race. As the chassis grew in length making a u-turn on track became more difficult. Jim invented the blower drive starter using P-51 12 volt aircraft starter motors from WWII which he purchased in bulk from military surplus dealers. When NHRA mandated self start systems others copied Jim's invention which he never bothered to patent. Bob "Mun" Munroe worked for Jim at the time and recalls Jim eventually giving the molds and tooling to a friend and fellow racer as gift. About this same time in the early 70's is when a biker named Arlen Ness approached Jim about modifying Sportster frames. Jim Davis was a World Record Holder in NHRA drag racing and drag boat racing. At the end of his life he was still driving front engined nostalgia top fuelers. Here is a link to YouTube video of Jim in 1983 at Fremont Raceway in California www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbjZk4o-dY
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
#6 is an ironing board that folds out from the kitchen work bench.
#7 is a pram curtain
#8 an "åkpåse" (don't know the english word for it, "pram bag") that covers the baby's shoulders
#9 a duvet cover with jokes printed on it (this was thought up by my son who was around 5 years then)
#10 a special kind of cloth diaper
#11 a feeding bottle with built-in thermometer
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#17 Robert Stephenson ~ bridge building and railway engineering
alternate view of the thing I built for my wife's art studio.
see more Holistic Forge Works, Latest Inventions & blacksmithing techniques.
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
This is a telephone cord that automatically rolls back when not stretched.
Fourth-grade inventors are knee-deep in Invention Convention preparations. A recent student-parent workday brought inventions several steps closer to finalization. Here is a sneak peek of the work that is going into these inventions. They will be on display at the Invention Convention on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
Fourth-grade students displayed their engineering skills during the annual Westminster Invention Convention held on Feb. 21 in the Lower School gym. The event was part of National Engineer’s Week.
Westminster has hosted the Invention Convention for more than 16 years, with fourth-grade teacher Kathy Buurma having organized each event. After learning about famous inventors, the students are tasked with determining a problem for which they would like to find a solution. The students work on the invention in class, and parents are invited to attend class to assist with construction. Four adults outside of the student’s immediate family test each invention before it is submitted for judging. The judges consider the reviews of the testers and the marketing of the invention in addition to the invention itself. Inventions this year include an extreme laptop case, a cat bed and breakfast and a lighted sweater for dogs.
Book front detail of Volume II. Adjusted and cleaned up in Photoshop
From "The Encyclopedia of Science and Invention," Volume iI, Champlin Encyclopedias, edited by George Moreby Acklom, Consolidated Book Publishers, 1936, 1946, 1947, 1948.
ODC2 - Our Daily Challenge - Invention
Besides my camera and the internet and Flickr the microwave has to be one of my favourite inventions.
Has anyone else been having trouble uploading to Flickr this evening??
I intended to catch up on comments today but ended up having to go out all day, hope tomorrow is quiet and I will get to see all your great uploads.
and this is mine, and you can say this is my real first invention..
but really, don't ask me how i did it, cuz maybe WE have to figure out that togather :P
Plants stay put for life, which could spell doom for a species, were it not for the ingenious devices that they evolved to let their progeny travel elsewhere. This delicately crafted structure parachutes its seeds to unknown, far away destinations. Reinvented by several plants, this wind-dependent mobility shows the constant exploitation by organisms of available resources in their environment. Man discovered equine, cattle, camels, elephants, coal-powered engines, bicycles, gas-powered cars and airplanes to disperse the species to new lands where they can put down roots and survive. Mobility, whatever the means, improves the odds of survival.