1975 Brooke Bond Picture Cards : Inventors & Inventions
Brooke Bond Picture Cards Inventors & Inventions were released in
1975 by Brooke Bond Oxo Ltd. of Surrey. The 50-card series was distributed in
the United Kingdom with purchases of Brooke Bond tea. The collection showcases
inventions and technological achievements throughout history. The card text
was written by Ken Roscoe. The images were illustrated by Barry Rowe.
Each card measures approximately 1.4 x 2.7 inches (36 x 68 mm). The
Brooke Bond Picture Cards Inventors & Inventions collector album
was sold separately at participating grocers and mail order for eight pence. The album foreword was authored by Raymond Baxter.
"The Transistor, 1946" includes an illustration of a Project Gemini
spacecraft.
"Three Americans are jointly credited with the invention of the
transistor – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. Their
invention was first demonstrated in 1948 at the Bell Telegraph
Laboratories in the U.S.A. Transistors have brought about a revolution in
radio and electronics, and have almost completely replaced the old radio
valve because of their remarkable reliability, toughness and incredibly
small size. In fact, without the transistor, the computers used in manned
spacecraft would be so heavy that the rockets might never get off the
ground!"
| Checklist | |
| 1 | The Wheel |
| 2 | The Plough |
| 3 | Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) |
| 4 | The Card Compass, 1302 |
| 5 | History of Printing |
| 6 | Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) |
| 7 | The Microscope, 1590 |
| 8 | The Telescope, 1608 |
| 9 | Measurement of Time |
| 10 | The Steam Engine, 1705 |
| 11 | The Piano, 1709 |
| 12 | Mariner's Sextant |
| 13 | The Fire Extinguisher, 1734 |
| 14 | The Typewriter, 1744 |
| 15 | Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) |
| 16 | The Spinning Machine, 1768 |
| 17 | History of the Lock |
| 18 | The Sewing Machine, 1790 |
| 19 | The Electric Battery, 1799 |
| 20 | George Stephenson's 'Rocket', 1829 |
| 21 | The Miner's Safety Lamp, 1815 |
| 22 | The Bicycle, 1816 |
| 23 | Reading for the Blind, 1829 |
| 24 | The Dynamo, 1831 |
| 25 | The Refrigerator, 1834 |
| 26 | The Revolver, 1835 |
| 27 | The Nut and Bolt |
| 28 | Plate and Roll-Film Cameras |
| 29 | The Morse Code, 1837 |
| 30 | The Pneumatic Tyre, 1845 |
| 31 | The Safety Razor, 1895 |
| 32 | The Lifeboat, 1790 |
| 33 | Traffic Signals, 1866 |
| 34 | The Telephone, 1876 |
| 35 | Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931) |
| 36 | The Washing Machine, c. 1860 |
| 37 | Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) |
| 38 | The Motor Car, 1885 |
| 39 | The Movie Camera, 1889 |
| 40 | The Vacuum Cleaner, 1901 |
| 41 | The Hearing Aid, c. 1920 |
| 42 | Television, 1925 |
| 43 | Catseyes, 1934 |
| 44 | Radar, 1935 |
| 45 | The Jet Engine, 1930 |
| 46 | The Transistor, 1947 |
| 47 | The Polaroid Camera, 1947 |
| 48 | The Hovercraft, 1954 |
| 49 | Hydrofoil Ships, 1958 |
| 50 | A Peep into the Future |