Henry Hokes

Watt, Boulton, Tesla, Stephenson, Whitworth, Edison – all great engineers and inventors whose work has altered our technological history. The time has come to add another name to that stellar gathering: Henry Hoke. Throughout much of the twentieth century, in an isolated workshop on a dusty windswept plain, Henry Hoke laboured mightily to conceive a string of dazzling inventions that, to this day, still defy the imagination. Hoke inventions including Demagnifying Glass, Waterproof Tap, Wooden Magnet, Long Weight, Dehydrated Water Pills and Barbed Wire Watering Can have now almost vanished from the public gaze.