Patent Art Prints

The first patented corkscrew in England was by Samuel Henshaw in 1795. However, earlier designs of a corkscrew was based on a tool called a gun wor...

Tea was popular in the seventeenth century, however, the brewing required pots and tea strainers. Small bags were created by Tom Sullivan, a tea me...

Black, green, white, and oolong teas, all come from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The oxidation, processing, and other factors give their dist...

Tea was popular in the seventeenth century, however, the brewing required pots and tea strainers. Small bags were created by Tom Sullivan, a tea me...

The name of the Star Wars four-legged combat walker stands for - All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT). Used by the ground forces of the Galactic E...

Hugh Rock filed the earliest U.S. patent for a modern hairbrush in 1854, and later in 1870, a brush with elastic wire teeth along with natural bris...

C-3PO, the Star Wars droid was programmed primarily for etiquette and protocol. Impressively, he was fluent in over six million forms of communicat...

The TIE/LN starfighter or TIE/line starfighter from Star Wars, often called TIE Fighter or T/F, is often seen in huge numbers in most of the Galact...

The Star Wars starfighter, commonly referred to as the B-wing, was a heavily armed Rebel Alliance single-pilot starfighter deployed in the Galactic...

The starfighter can be identified by their distinctive S-foils resembling the High Galactic script's character "X" in attack formation. Armed with ...

Particularly famous for the association with Sherlock Holmes, the magnifying glass is a notable icon in detective fiction. The magnifying glass is ...

Among the ancients the key was a symbol of authority and power. Representing knowledge and success, they represent the ability to open doors which ...

The square is a tool used for marking and measuring a an accurate right angle. It can serve to symbolise the conscience, morality and the rightness...

In Armidale Australia, 777 couples, totalling 1,554 participants, took part in the largest human wheelbarrow race. The earliest wheelbarrows date b...

A tool with a scoop-shaped metal blade with a pointed head, the trowel serves to dig holes, break up earth, amongst other gardening activities. Fro...

Traditionally made of wood, most garden forks today are made of steel. This essential gardening tool is used for loosening soil and digging, to rak...

A hanging pot or basket is used for growing decorative plants. Sometimes hung from buildings, and other times suspended from frames, they serve the...

In May 2012, the first stopwatch ever made was sold in auction by Christie's at Geneva's Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. Made by Louis Moinet of Pa...

In the 19th century, pocket watches dominated the industry, and the wristwatch primarily were made for women who did not use pocket watches, and th...

First record of a hat, a painting found in a cave at Lussac-les-Chateaux in Central France, dates around 15,000 BC. As for the terminology for hats...

Luxury watches tend to be water resistant up to 100-300m, however, the Rolex Deep Sea Special watch was taken nearly 11,000 meters to the bottom of...

It is estimated that a man shaves at least 20,000 times in a lifetime. The strength of a single strand of hair can reduce to half in strength when ...

Golf shoes with separate screw-in spikes were introduced in 1891, followed by the extra saddle-shaped piece of leather around the laces in 1906 whi...

Surveying around 8,900 adult men, only 92 men responded that they were able tie their own bow tie - equals to about 1% of the men surveyed. Althoug...

Numerous variations of the garden trowel has existed since over 10,000 years ago, when people used the shoulder blades of large animals to remove r...

A deep sense of well-being is established through the activity of working with plants as we consciously become aware of the cycles of nature. The s...

Used for loosening soil and digging, the tines allow an easy insert into the ground to rake out stones and weeds, breaking up clods and preparing t...

Louis Vuitton, after an apprenticeship in Paris, opened his own box-making workshop in 1854. The iconic monogram canvas was introduced in 1896, fea...

A space capsule is an often-crewed spacecraft that enables to re-enter the earth's atmosphere without wings. Patent by Maxime Allen Faget (1921–200...

The space shuttle has a thermal protection, also known as a heat shield, with more than 30,000 tiles made essentially of sand, enabling the shuttle...

The word "spaceship" was first used in 1880. The first recorded use of the word "spacecraft" was in 1929. A space shuttle, as well as facilitating ...

In 1947, the first UFO report was made. A pilot named Kenneth Arnold saw nine flying objects and described their movement as "like a saucer if you ...

A tool with a scoop-shaped metal blade with a pointed head, the trowel serves to dig holes, break up earth, amongst other gardening activities. Fro...

This tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, exists in various sizes and shapes for numerous functions. A wooden shovel from approxim...

Although digging the soil is a labour intensive part of gardening, it is an essential preparation filled with benefits for the plants. Improving wa...

The term shears refers to scissors longer than 6 inches long made for specific applications. Often shears have a larger handle on one side, or larg...