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52 photos and 2 illustrations tagged invention, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

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Joseph Swan in his Laboratory

from North East Museums

• John keys said:

  Sound chap This Mr Swan...

• Timothy Jones said:

  "... Swan's demonstration of the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, before its invention by the American Thomas Edison ..." Now consider the idiocy of this. Swan demonstrated the light bulb, so he invented it. OK so the filament was a bit naff, and it was hard to achieve a good vacuum. Thomas Edison cannot have invented it AFTER Swan had already demonstrated it. Give Edison the credit for improving it, and creating a production line for its manufacture, but please, do not fall into that Transatlantic error of thinking Edison invented the light bulb. He did not.

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Timothy Jones thanks. We've reworded the caption - we certainly don't believe it was Edison who invented the lightbulb!

Aviette Contest - France (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• BigBlockAgency said:

  Issy les Moulineaux near Paris, France, 7th June 1912.

• The Library of Congress said:

  mecanic80: Thanks for noting the location and date. We'll edit the source data and reload the information to Flickr.

• B-59 said:

  S. article in The sun., June 30, 1912, FOURTH SECTION MAGAZINE, Page 15, ""AVIETTING MAY BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FORMS OF SPORT". It says that the Peugeot company offered a preliminary prize of 1,000 francs for a very short flight of forty inches distance at a minimum height of four inches for propellerless aviettes. This contest took place on June 2 at Issy-les-Moulineaux. According to claudel.dopp.free.fr/Les_planeurs/Histoire/Velo-vole/Velo..., the photo shows Gabriel Poulain during the contest on June 2, 1912. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Poulain In 1921 Gabriel Poulain succeeded in flying 11 yards at height of 3 feet with his bike winning a Peugeot prize of 10,000 francs, s. www.britishpathe.com/video/flying-bikes/query/GABRIEL

• Richard Norton said:

  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101486849

Patent Drawing for a Flying Machine, 10/05/1869 - 10/05/1869

from U.S. National Archives

• Unique Support said:

  There was a young man from Eugene, Who built a flying machine. When they all said “You’ll fall!” He said, “Not at all!” "It’s built from an old trampoline!"