Inventors (1566 pages found in this category)


Joseph Neil Paton

Damask designer and antiquarian with large collection containing witchcraft objects, including the skull of Lilias Adie. Father of the artist Joseph Noel Paton.

Joseph Noel Paton

Scottish artist, antiquary, poet and sculptor.

Jougs

Metal collar formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Scotland.

Judy (satirical magazine)

British satirical magazine published from 1867 until 1907.

Juliana Horatia Ewing

English writer of children's stories, whose 1865 book The Brownies gave Agnes Baden-Powell the idea and the name for the junior level of the Girl Guides.

Juliana Horatia Ewing bibliography

Books written by Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885) listed in order of their date of first publication.

Karst cave

The most common type of cave, formed by the solution of carboniferous rocks by the action of rainwater.

Katherine Harley

Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women's suffrage was held.

Katherine Mayne

16th-century Scottish woman convicted of the murder of her first husband, Alexander Cant.

Kaye’s Mineral Line

Standard gauge mineral line built to serve the pits owned by the Lister Kayes of Denby Grange in West Yorkshire.