W.D. & H.O. Wills

Famous Inventions

Stock ID: kWY

Full set of 50 antique cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. Cugnot’s Traction Engine
• 2. Marconi Transmitting Apparatus
• 3. Vacuum Flask
• 4. Arkwright’s Spinning Machine
• 5. Vacuum Brake
• 6. Steam Navvy
• 7. Syphon Barometer
• 8. Rock Drill
• 9. The Croton Dam, New York
• 10. Spectroscope
• 11. Hobby-Horse
• 12. Watt’s Steam Engine
• 13. Microscope
• 14. Stevens’ Screw Propeller
• 15. Safety Lamp
• 16. Titan Crane
• 17. Wilde’s Dynamo
• 18. Floating Dock
• 19. Five-Needle Telegraph Instrument
• 20. The Camera
• 21. Grand Piano
• 22. X-Ray Apparatus
• 23. Auto-Piano
• 24. Lifeboat
• 25. Cash Register
• 26. Howe’s Sewing Machine
• 27. Pratt’s Typewriter
• 28. The Croton Dam, New York (2)
• 29. Early Reflecting Telescope
• 30. Transporter Bridge
• 31. Edison’s First Phonograph
• 32. Electric Light
• 33. Grand Piano (2)
• 34. Parachute Descent By Garnerin, 1797
• 35. Modern Submarine
• 36. Steel-Frame Building
• 37. Santos-Dumont’s Aeroplane Motor
• 38. Steam Hammer
• 39. Edison’s Kinetoscope
• 40. Modern Lighthouse Lantern
• 41. Hydraulic Press
• 42. Incandescent Light
• 43. Jacquard Loom
• 44. Electric Locomotive
• 45. Oil Engine
• 46. Steam Turbine
• 47. Axminster Carpet Loom
• 48. Electric Tram
• 49. Sun Motor
• 50. Diving Bell