Inventors On Stamps

US Scott #893




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I Brake For Stamps - Great topic idea! Here is my first contribution:

Samuel Owen (1774-1854) was a British-Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist who in 1809 founded a workshop in Stockholm to produce mechanical components for industry. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Owen, designed by Nisse Zetterberg, engraved by Arne Wallhorn, and issued by Sweden on March 5, 1974 to commemorate the bicentenary of the inventor's birth, Scott No. 1038, Facit No. 860, plus portrait of Samuel Owen from the book Svenska industriens män (1875) which was a model for this stamp's design.

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Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594); inventor of the Mercator Projection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian inventor and physicist, best known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Marconi and a depiction of sending a radio signal from a ship at sea to Sydney, Australia, designed by "Gênes," engraved by Pierre Béquet, and issued by Niger on July 1, 1974, Scott No. 303, plus a photo of Guglielmo Marconi in 1908.

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US Scott Nos. 2055-2058


Charles Steinmetz: Promoted development of alternating current.

Edwin Armstrong: FM radio transmission.

Nikola Tesla: Already posted

Filo T. Farnsworth: The way to look at an image and divide it up into lines, for TV projection.

Mr. Zip: Didn't invent anything.


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US Scott #1468A


Invented the moving assembly line.


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Auguste Piccard (1884-1962)
Swiss-born Belgian physicist notable for his exploration of both the upper stratosphere and the depths of the sea in ships of his own design. (Wikipedia) Inventor of the bathyscaphe.

Here are images of three more stamps honoring Auguste Piccard.

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Portrait of Auguste Piccard, designed by Swiss artist Max Boegli, engraved by Karl Bickel, Jr., and issued by Switzerland on September 14, 1978, Scott No. 665.


Two stamps depicting a couple of Piccard's inventions, a stratosphere balloon and a bathyscaphe, designed and engraved by Jacky Larrivière, and issued by Monaco on May 10, 1984 to commemorate the centenary of Piccard's birth, Scott Nos. 1433 & 1444.

US Scott No. 892


Elias Howe-- Inventor of the modern sewing machine.

Patent Drawing of Lockstitch Loop Sewing Machine c. 1846


Actual Sewing Machine c. 1846


Elias Howe sued Isaac Singer for selling a facsimile of his machine. Howe won the case but nevertheless, Singer still wound up being a major brand name on modern sewing machines.


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US Scott #C91,C92


The Wright Bothers-- Motor Powered Flight.


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A foreruner of the submarine navigation the Catalan engineer and polititian Narcís Monturiol (Figueres, 1819 - Sant Martí de Provençals, 1885) designed two underwater ships that he named "Ictineus" (fish-ship) and tried on the waters of Barcelona's harbour. The first one (wooden) Ictineu was steam propelled, but the iron second one, used an electric engine. Sorrily, nobody cared about them and Monturiol died in bankrupcy.







Note: this is a proper maximum card, as Monturiol tried his submarine in Barcelona's waters, and the ship's drawings (shown on the card, pm and stamp) are kept on our city's MAritime Museum, where the card was postmarked on the FD of issue of the stamp (2 years after Monturiol's death centenary. Spanish P.O. way...)

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of American inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) and depicting his invention, the electric telegraph, designed and engraved by Jacky Larrivière, and issued by Monaco on November 16, 1987 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Morse's achievement, Scott No. 1602, plus a photograph of Morse, sans whiskers, taken in Paris in 1840.

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René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope in 1816.






His hometown Quimper honoured him with a monument.

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (1808-1889) was an Italian inventor best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus which some sources credit as the first telephone. Here is an image of a se-tenant stamp featuring a portrait of the inventor, designed and engraved by Tullio Mele, and issued by Italy on May 10, 1978, Scott No. 1331, plus an image of an 1878 photograph of Antonio Meucci which may have been the model for this stamp's design.

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