Brooke Bond & Co.

Inventors & Inventions

Stock ID: b0e

Full set of 50 vintage tea cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. The Wheel
• 2. The Plough
• 3. Archimedes (c.287–212 BC)
• 4. The Card Compass, 1302
• 5. History of Printing
• 6. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
• 7. The Microscope, 1590
• 8. The Telescope, 1608
• 9. Measurement of Time
• 10. The Steam Engine, 1705
• 11. The Piano, 1709
• 12. Mariner’s Sextant
• 13. The Fire Extinguisher, 1734
• 14. The Typewriter, 1744
• 15. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
• 16. The Spinning Machine, 1768
• 17. History of the Lock
• 18. The Sewing Machine, 1790
• 19. The Electric Battery, 1799
• 20. George Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’, 1829
• 21. The Miner’s Safety Lamp, 1815
• 22. The Bicycle, 1816
• 23. Reading for the Blind, 1829
• 24. The Dynamo, 1831
• 25. The Refrigerator, 1834
• 26. The Revolver, 1835
• 27. The Nut and Bolt
• 28. Plate and Roll-Film Cameras
• 29. The Morse Code, 1837
• 30. The Pneumatic Tyre, 1845
• 31. The Safety Razor, 1895
• 32. The Lifeboat, 1790
• 33. Traffic Signals, 1866
• 34. The Telephone, 1876
• 35. Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931)
• 36. The Washing Machine, c. 1860
• 37. Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937)
• 38. The Motor Car, 1885
• 39. The Movie Camera, 1889
• 40. The Vacuum Cleaner, 1901
• 41. The Hearing Aid, c. 1920
• 42. Television, 1925
• 43. Catseyes, 1934
• 44. Radar, 1935
• 45. The Jet Engine, 1930
• 46. The Transistor, 1947
• 47. The Polaroid Camera, 1947
• 48. The Hovercraft, 1954
• 49. Hydrofoil Ships, 1958
• 50. A Peep into the Future