This collection of Heath Robinson's sketches has come about because there appears to be a shortage of websites featuring this great man's comic art. Enjoy.

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1872-1944
"I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad."

How to Build a Bungalow

How to Cross the Rhine

Multi-Tennis

The Trench presser

The screw-stopperer for plugging the muzzles of the enemy's rifles

Inoffensive method of ascertaining the weight of a lady friend

How they cope with the new year's demand for Shredded Wheat

The flat without a balcony

Roof hiking in a modern flat

Futile attempt to get used to driving on the right hand side of the road

The new safety street for learners

How to go to bed without disturbing the household after a late night

Testing golf drivers

|||| The right spirit ||||

A tense moment when testing the strength of the finished rope

Neutral! A Swiss shepherd watching a battle on the frontier

Stiffnecking tommies by directing draughts on the British trenches

The true reason of war - a little frontier incident in Alsace, July 1914

The professor's invention for peeling potatoes

Space economy in a suburban maisonette

An awkward predicament

The last straw that didn't break the camel's back

Remarkable presence of mind of a cinematographer who took an interesting...

Fixing up the new aerial

The new measuring chair now in use by most west-end tailors

|||| Carrying out the correspondence course for mountain climbing in the home ||||

Up-to-Date Tie Tests employed by Messrs. Rogers Peet Company

Coke Grading

Hague Convention Defied - Use of Laughing Gas

Huns injecting chilblain serum into British feet

Remarkable case of absence of mind in a Dutch restaurant

A convenient magnetic contraption (with mirror attachment) for reducing the figure

Sensible collaboration between a short story writer and an illustrator...

Some occasions when a gentleman is not expected to give up his seat to a lady

|||| Bombing tunny in the lagoons of Bude ||||

The stirrup pump relay system of signalling for giving warning of an invasion

A Surprise for the Cat Burglar

Six-tier Communal Cradle

Camouflage on Salisbury Plain

Testing the waterproof qualities of umbrellas in an up-to-date brolly works

The Trench-Sealer

Training Frame for Cat Burglars

Anti-Litter Machine

Portable Pedestrian Crossings

Course of Training for Rugger Novices.

Cricket for the Middle-Aged

Washing Day on board a Zeppelin

The Multi-movement bomb-catcher.

The Puncture

A new inn sign for the shortsighted.

Resuscitating stale Railway Scones for redistribution at the Station Buffets.

Economical method of imparting the Pork Flavour to Pork Sausages....