Education
Sutton studied and then lectured at the Ballarat School of Mines (SMB).
Sutton studied and then lectured at the Ballarat School of Mines (SMB).
He died in 1912 at the age of 56. Some of his inventions include
various telephones
lightbulbs
a dynamo
a prototype Ornithopter/helicopter
radio transmitters/receivers
the world’s first portable wireless radio
a colour-printing process
battery
several vacuum pumps
telephane an early design for a television An improved process of converting a photographic image on a gelatine surface into a relief or intaglio printing surface
From 1898 Sutton held patents for improvements in combustion engine carburettors.
By 1899 he had built and driven the, one of the first motor cars in Australia.
In 1903 Sutton was a founding member of the Automobile Club of Victoria.