Inventors

Date: ca 1877-1927

By: United States Information Service

Reference: PAColl-0537

Description: Photographs collected by the United States Information Service on the occasion of the 104th anniversary of Edison's birth in 1951. They feature Edison with various of his inventions and an information sheet about the inventor. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 29 June 1995]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1995/1932-F

Description: Inventor Terry Roycroft in his amphibious car. The car cum boat is alumimiun and powered by a Subaru 1600 engine. Photographed circa 29 June 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1894 - 1896

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-PHARMACY-1890s-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Shows head and shoulders portrait photograph of Mr W P Townend, the inventor of Townend's Cinnamon Cure, at top left, and gives patients' testimonials beneath. Verso advertises Spencer Vincent's Benjamin Gum for coughs and colds. Dated from poster for Loasby's "Wahoo" Embrocation. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Caxton Printing Company, Manse Street ... Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 287 x 225 mm.

Date: 2012 - 2013

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2013-04

Description: 2013 calendar containing illustrations of "culture icons" in action, wearing swimming costumes: Miss January - Mitchell Baker (spokesperson and chief lizard wrangler at Mozilla) Mr February - Yochai Benkler, author of "The wealth of networks" & "The penguin and the Leviathan" Mr March - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web Mr April - Adrian Bowyer, inventor of the Reprap self-replicating 3D printer Miss May - Limor Fried, aka lady Ada - founder of Adafruit Industries Mr June - Marcin Jakubowski - physicist, farmer and founder of open source ecology Mr July - Lawrence Lessig - founder of Creative Commons, initiator of the free Culture Movement Mr August - Nicholas Negroponte - founder of the One Laptop Per Child Project and MIT Media Lab Mr September - Eric S Raymond - author of "The cathedral and the bazaar" and "The new hacker's dictionary" Mr October - Richard stallman - writer of the Gnu General Public License & founder of the Free Software Foundation Mr November - Linus Torvalds - creator and coordinator of the Linux Kernel Miss, Master, mrs, Mr and Ms December - the free / libre / open community The calendar was printed in Germany, but the concept designer and the artist are both New Zealanders. Year of Open Source ran from August 1st 2012-August 1st 2013. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on pages of spiral-bound calendar 425 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mark Crookston, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 7 Nov 2004 - 07 Nov 2004

From: MOTAT Volunteers oral history project

By: Stewart, Keith, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0899-13

Description: Interviw with Keith Stewart, born in Carterton in 1917. Talks about his father Hector Halhead ("Steam") Stewart and grandfather [George Tiffen Stewart] having been inventive engineers, his grandfather inventing vibrated concrete and his father designing and building motorcycles and co-developing the Stewart and Edlin two-stroke engine. Refers to his father obtaining a licence to manufacture refrigerators in New Zealand and talks about the bringing together of Mason & Porter, Alex Harvey and E.A. Saunders. Details his own and his brothers' work histories, mentioning Fisher & Paykel, Hill & Stewart, and H.H. Stewart & Sons. Comments on the "inventors disease" and having 123 of his own inventions listed with eight patented. Refers to hovercraft, a big screen projection system and a phone switching system. Talks about the pumping station at Western Springs which was to have been demolished in 1936 and his father trying to turn it into a mechanical museum. Mentions he did a drawing for the proposal, and the demolition plan being dropped. Comments on scrap steel being shipped to Japan in 1937. Discusses the group of volunteers who got the museum going in the 1960s and obtained artefacts from Matakohe. Mentions the role of Mayor Robbie [Sir Dove-Meyer Robinson]. Comments that his father was not on the MOTAT committee as he expected to be invited but wasn't. Talks about gifts from his family to MOTAT and the involvement of young people in the museum. Other - There is a photograph of Keith Stewart in his home (2005) on MOTAT's Oral History film No. 2; No. 27/26. Interviewer(s) - Allan Rudge Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-019910 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 50 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6910, OHDL-000439. Search dates: 1921 - 2004

Date: 1951

By: Whetton, Thomas Henry, 1880-1959

Reference: MS-Papers-0097

Description: Biographical studies from the 'Auckland Star', 'People' and the 'Wanganui Herald', with numerous copies of drawings and pamphlets detailing Whetton's claim to have invented the most efficient jet engine. Quantity: 2 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: May 1986

By: Gallagher, John, active 2002; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: 1/2-197537-F

Description: Portrait of Alfred William Gallagher (1911-1990), Farmer, inventor, manufacturing engineer and businessman, of Hamilton, photographed ca May 1986 by a Waikato Times staff photographer. See DNZB v.5 - Bill Gallagher was a farmer, inventor, manufacturing engineer, businessman, and commercial fisherman of Hamilton. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 10 x 12.5 cm

Date: 1925 - 1930

By: New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys

Reference: Eph-A-LAW-1920s-01

Description: Booklet outlining facts about the Patent Office, preparing the specifications, term of a patent, renewal fees, lapsed patents, foreign patents and international convention. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume of 25 pages, 210 x 138 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in September 2002.

Date: 1984

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-113

Description: Shows four inventors queueing at the Patent Office, each holding a strangely shaped parcel. This cartoon illustrated an article in the Auckland Star about New Zealand's only Patent Office at the time, in High Street, Lower Hutt. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card 190 x 235 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1999

By: Woolworth's (New Zealand) Ltd.

Reference: Eph-F-HISTORY-1999-01

Description: Includes medals commemmorating: A.D. The birth of Christ 476 A.D. The fall of the Roman Empire 1440-1550. The Renaissance - Michelangelo, Botticelli, Da Vinci 1492-1590 Exploration - Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama 1712-1908 Transport - Wright, Stephenson, Ford 1760-1860 Industrial Revolution - steam changes the world 1770-1827 Beethoven 1775-1783 American Revolution - Birth of the USA 1789 French Revolution - Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite 1833-1926 Technology - Bell, Edison, Marconi, Baird, Babbage 1889-1977 Charlie Chaplin, the Little Tramp 1898-1903 Marie Curie investigated radioactivity 1910-1997 Mother Teresa of Calcutta 1914-1918 World War I - War in the trenches 1939-1945 World War II - Allies defeat Axis powers 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mt Everest 1953 DNA, the secret of life and heredity 1969 First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong 1974 Muhammad Ali "Float like a butterfly" 1989-1993 Development of the Internet and the World Wide Web 1992 Nelson Mandela abolished apartheid Quantity: 21 curio(s). Physical Description: 21 metal medals/coins, diameter 27 mm.

Date: 2011

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0016885

Description: Caricature of Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and the visionary behind the Macintosh computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-449

Description: Caricature of Ruth Handler, the creator of the Barbie Doll. The caricature marks her death. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

By: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand

Reference: Eph-C-ENGINEERING-2010-01

Description: Poster advertising a lecture given by Glenn Martin about the jetpack he developed, soon to be available for sale. Shows a photograph of a man moving by operating the jetpack into which he is strapped. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: [ca 9 Jun 1959]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mannering and Donaldson Ltd

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Ha-01

Description: Bill Hamilton, inventor of the Hamilton jet unit, standing in a jet-boat. Photograph taken circa 9 June 1959 by Mannering and Donaldson Ltd, probably in Canterbury. Other - Published in the Evening Post 9 June 1959 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 24.4 x 20.1 cm

Date: 2004

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DX-022-032

Description: Three vignettes of Alexander Graham Bell's assistant on the other end of the line of the inventor's new invention, the telephone. Extended Title - Alexander Grahan Bell?..I hear you! My God, I hear you! Good grief!! Hey did you realise...a little more work on this thing and man could speak across the oceans?..one day text the kids?..take voyeuristic shots in dressing rooms?.. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2009

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0010064

Description: Shows Richard Pearse, the New Zealand farmer and inventor performed pioneering experiments in aviation. Pearse appears to have successfully flown and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, some nine months before the Wright brothers though this claim is controversial. He is shown directing a horse-drawn plough with one hand while he reads a book on how birds fly with the other. Above his head is a flying machine. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

By: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand

Reference: Eph-C-LECTURE-2011-01

Description: Poster advertising a lecture given by Ray Avery, shows a head and shoulders portrait of the speaker. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 420 x 297 mm.