Limited Edition Signed and Numbered Giclee Print

Edition of 50

Size Framed: 345mm x 395mm

Additional notes:

Dr. Crighton was a fellow inventor and great friend of my great grandfather; the English eccentric and photographic pioneer Samuel Heracles Gascoigne-Simpson.

Dr. Crighton resided at the village of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth in Lincolnshire (close to the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton), and only a few miles from our family seat of Bumforth Manor.

They shared the cost of employing an athletic servant whose exhausting job it was to run back and forth between their two houses with letters bearing notes and detailed diagrams of their respective ideas and inventions. In addition to the apparatus depicted here, Dr. Crighton was the originator of a number of ingenious and labour saving devices of the time, including ‘A Recreational Perambulation device’ (steam powered self propulsion unit utilising an early form of roller skates), the infamous ‘Anti Drowning Hat’, and the somewhat ungainly ‘Crighton’s Automated Potato Peeler’...with which two servants, with practice, could successfully peel a single large potato in under an hour.