Sherman Grinberg Film Library
At patent show in NY City, Ray Perkins of NBC shows humorous inventions
Title card: "NY patent show produces some striking inventions - 'Professor' Ray Perkins of NBC shows a few worthy of assault and battery" / Perkins standing at table with inventions on it speaking to camera / Perkins shows double "Amos...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Inventor Igor Bensen tests flying boat at Cypress Garden, FL
Title: "A Boat That Flies!" superimposed over boat being towed along water / MS boat on beach, people around boat / MS Igor B. Bensen, aviation inventor and President of the Bensen Aircraft Corp., Raleigh-Durham Airport, placing...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Maiden flight of Goodyear single-seater inflatable airplane in Akron, Ohio
Title: "Inflate-It-Yourself Airplane Makes Maiden Flight" superimposed over airplane taking off / station wagon with inflatable airplane sticking out of back pulls into snow-dusted field / three men lift and carry airplane from station...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
German inventor Gustav Baumm test-drives his new streamlined motorcycle in Munich
Title "Like a torpedo - 20 records set by novel motorcycle!" superimposed over shot from moving car of Gustav Baumm driving motorcycle with its fuselage down highway / motorcycle comes to stop as two mechanics rush up to it, they lift...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
"Electric Tongue" device derives sound from the acids in fruit and other items
Title card: "Electric Tongue Tastes Fruit by Measuring Acid - New scientific marvel, demonstrated by President O. H. Caldwell of NY Electrical Society, records acids in sound" / VS O. H. Caldwell, president, New York Electrical Society,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Thomas Edison at 'Light's Golden Jubilee' celebration at the Edison Institute
CU Thomas Edison in his later years / Edison stands with back facing camera as he listens to President Herbert Hoover at the 'Light's Golden Jubilee' celebration of the 50th anniversary of Edison's invention of electric light, held at...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1920s footage of Thomas Edison with visitors at his West Orange laboratory
Thomas Edison seated at roll-top desk with cubbyholes jammed with papers; a visitor arrives, bows, and they shake hands, then he leans to speak into in Edison's ear / Jumpy footage of Edison posing and giving the man a document / Edison...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Atomic battery inventors discuss and demonstrate their creation
Dr. Ernest Linder and Paul Rappaport, co-developers of the world's first atomic battery and both staff members at RCA Laboratories, sitting at table and SOTs discussing atomic battery, show parts of atomic battery on poster, and...
Hearst Metrotone News
Aviator Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the Spruce Goose seaplane.
Aviator Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the Spruce Goose seaplane.
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Propeller and rudder of Motorboard designed by Hollywood inventor Joe Gilpin
CU rotating propeller and moving rudder on Motorboard, a motorized surfboard / Note: exact day not known
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Warner Brothers' Phyllis Coates and Patricia Northrup demonstrate motorboard designed by Hollywood inventor Joe Gilpin in 1948
Phyllis Coates (front) and Patricia Northrup, in halter top, one piece bathing suits, sit on Motorboard, a motorized surfboard, in Toluca Lake as it moves past camera, docks and houses in bkgd / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Former US Olympic Committee President Gustavus Kirby explains his two-eyed camera timing system
Title card: "Device Timing Speed To Hundredth Of Second Ready For Olympic Use - Two-eyed camera which eliminates stopwatch errors is explained by Gustavus Kirby" / MS Kirby stands outside next to Kirby two-eyed camera on tripod and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Automobile in US whose motor runs on coal
Title card: "Coal your auto? Proving there's no fuel like an old fuel to run a car" / people standing on either side of car, smoke coming from smokestack on its hood / heads of two men looking at whistle on car / two shots of car driving...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
'Prince Michalikais' attempts stunt with jet pack
Title card: "Rocket - Inventive Genius shoots in the works" / A man in a fedora assists Prince Michalikais in donning a 'jet pack' on his back; a close view of the assistant adjusting explosive packs / Michalikais leans over and the...
Getty Images
brain storming: great idea
Focus group brainstorming new ideas working as a creative team to find innovative concepts and inventions represented by people holding hands around a light bulb
Getty Images
brain storming: great idea
Focus group brainstorming new ideas working as a creative team to find innovative concepts and inventions represented by people holding hands around a light bulb
Hearst Metrotone News
An inventor demonstrates a homemade flying saucer in his backyard.
An inventor demonstrates a homemade flying saucer in his backyard.
Hearst Metrotone News
A man cranks an early telephone before he can talk; a woman talks into a telephone with a shoulder rest.
A man cranks an early telephone before he can talk; a woman talks into a telephone with a shoulder rest.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
German flying ace Captain Franz Carl Schleiff demonstrates his rubber car bumper invention by crashing cars
Captain Franz Carl Schleiff driving open car crashes into car on street causing dust, crowd watching in front of building; crowd starts to run toward scene / Schleiff looking for damages to bumper and cars from crash / Schleiff, driving...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Glider pulled by car mimics airplane navigation to train students
Title card: 'Learn flying in glider on auto, Greensburg, PA - Inventor Harry Traver explains newest device to train student pilots' / Harry Traver, in straw boater, speaking (no audio); behind, a seated teenage boy moves a joystick / car...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Sauvan deliberately crashes in glider
Title card: "Ze Grand Idea - M. Sauvan tests new invention to make gliding safe" / men help Sauvan into cockpit of glider perched on stone wall hanging over steep incline, people on road watching / pan from glider on wall down incline /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
At Idlewild Airport in NY City, new mechanical docking system for passenger airplanes that keeps passengers and luggage dry
Rain falling as passenger stands next to piece of luggage being carried on conveyor belt underneath parked plane at Idlewild Airport (later known as John F Kennedy International Airport), piece of luggage slides onto another conveyor...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Views of ornithopter "The Gray Goose"
Men, maybe one is inventor Jonathon Caldwell, pulling line attached to ornithopter, aeronautical engineer Caldwell's invention with words "The Gray Goose" on side, people watching and building in bg; craft moves past camera with man...