The ingenious inventions of William Heath Robinson (13 photos)
The English artist William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) at the beginning of his creative career tried to sell watercolor landscapes. Alas, things didn't go too well.
In 1897, Heath Robinson illustrated the first books: “Danish Fairy Tales and Legends” by Andersen, “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by D. Bunyan, “Don Quixote” by Cervantes and “Tales of Old India” by W. Rose. These publications, in which the artist had just begun to search for his own style, were noticed by the public.
But Heath Robinson gained particular popularity after his amazing drawings depicting ingenious devices began to appear.
Albums with his drawings (“Homemade Cars” (1921), “Jolly Golf” (1923), “Ridiculous Things” (1934), “How to Live in an Apartment” (1936), “How to Be an Ideal Husband” (1937)) have become classics English humor. The artist was called the “king of gadgets,” and the unusual mechanisms in England began to be called “Heath Robinson.”
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