Invention Gallery

Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items

Choose from 71 pictures in our Invention collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.

First Ferris wheel, Chicago World's Fair, 1893

Telegraph poles following the transcontinental railroad

Spaceship to the Moon imagined in the 1870s

B&O Railroad's Tom Thumb steam locomotive, 1830

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B&O Railroad's Tom Thumb steam locomotive, 1830

Passenger car pulled by Peter Cooper's experimental locomotive "Tom Thumb" on the B&O Railroad, 1830.
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Leonardo da Vinci sketch for a siege machine

Leonardo da Vinci drawing of a canal dredge

Cotton gin in use by African-American slaves in the South

New Orleans docks under electric lights, 1880s

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Westinghouse light bulb ad, 1886

Westinghouse Electric Company's 16 candle-power incandescent lamp, advertisement, 1886.
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Brass swivel gun, often used as naval artillery, 1700s

First Atlantic crossing by steamship, 1819

Coney Island beach lit by electric light, 1880s

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First Atlantic crossing by steamship, 1819

American paddlewheeler "Savannah," the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, 1819.
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Fulton's steamboat 'Clermont' on the Hudson River — Fulton's steamboat "Clermont" on the Hudson River

Telegraph office at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, 1870s

Wilbur Wright giving flying lessons in France

Joseph Henry's electromagnetic telegraph, 1832

Walk-in-the-Water steamboat on Lake Erie, 1818

Western Union office in New York City, 1870s

First steamboat, the Clermont, on the Hudson River