Learning Trails

The learning trails on the site are designed to complement the searchable patent database. These trails provide more details on some of the Yorkshire inventors and inventions and the entrepreneurs who have been influential in this area. As well as the patent drawings,  photographs and other images provide further material to assist anyone interested in some of the inventions to have come from the Yorkshire area. There are three trails on the site.

Inventions in Transport from Bradford
This topic is intended to give an overview of some of the inventions and inventors in Bradford who made a significant contribution to transport developments. Learn about the early history of Jowett cars or the formation of the Northern Aero Syndicate.

Inventors from Wakefield and elsewhere in Yorkshire
These are some of the inventors and innovators from the Wakefield area and other Yorkshire towns who made a name for themselves. Find out about Charles Waterton and his experiments in taxidermy or discover what a 'Tom Pudding' looked like.

Inventors with Leeds Connections

These inventors met with varying degrees of success with some patenting their inventions and some not. Read about John Smeaton and Matthew Murray or John Blenkinsop's rack and pinion railway. Find out more about ' the Little Nipper' or the developments in cinematography.

                                          Middleton railway