19th Century Industrial Processes

Engravings depicting various industrial processes, including textile weaving, rope manufacturing, and rice starch production, showcasing historical machinery and workers.

Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Lipppe district. Bad Salzuflen. Rice starch factory of E. Hoffmann and Company, founded in 1852. Rice mills. Drawing from life by Theodor Volz. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

Krupp's old Bessemer machine Date: 1870s

Werkstatt eines Uhrmacher im Schwarzwald, Deutschland, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Interior of a factory in the Thames gold-fields, New Zealand, where the process extracts gold from quartz. 1875

An engraving depicting the preparation of sand-filled boxes used as moulds for cast-iron. Dated 19th century

Fulling in the wash in a textile plant, lithograph, 1871, Carlo Matscheg. Italy, 19th century.

An engraving of Brewing: cleansing vats into which beer was transferred, after primary fermentation, in order to cleanse it. 1866

An engraving depicting the pressing of grapes for wine. France 1870

THE MANUFACTURE OF VALENTINES, 1874

Pneumatic tyres: placing rubber over canvas foundation to form the envelope. From La Nature, Paris, 1900.

Small engineering works in which the Tangy brothers made machine tools in the 1850s. From One and All by Richard Tangye (London, c1889). Richard Tangye (1833-1906) English engineer of Cornish Quaker origin, supplied hydraulic jacks for the launch of the SS Great Eastern. He instituted Saturday half holiday for his factory workers.

Herring 'horse' loaded with smoked fish on sticks From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Dated 19th Century

Glass blowing at a glass furnace; England 1857

An engraving depicting the Huntley & Palmer's factory, Reading. Dated 19th century

19th century, Brazier, shaping a piece of copper or zinc alloy in readiness for electroplating with silver. Elkington & Co, silver manufacturer, Birmingham. English; illustration, 1844

The garbage melting furnace in Berlin, opened on March 8, 1899, the garbage-free garbage is dried here by a warmth of 800 and in its combustible components and is now being granted with coal staub at 1800-2000 in the large shaft oven for melting, waste burning, Germany, historically, digitally restored reproduction from a template from the 19th century, Record Date not stated

Engraving depicting the village blacksmith. Illustrated by William Small (1843-1929) a Scottish artist and illustrator. Dated 19th century

mining, children's labour, conveyor cage of an English cole mine, circa 1840, drawing,

Women making pneumatic tyres for bicycles: France. Wood engraving Paris 1896

Weaving silk fringe, Spitalfields, London, England. This man could earn 3d (1.25 pence) per hour when work was available. The Spitalfields silk industry was begun by Huguenot refugees who left France after Revocation of Edict of Nantes (1685) by Louis XIV.

Grinding and polishing plate glass. From 'The Universal Magazine' London 1760. Hand-coloured engraving.

A woodcut engraving depicting a man refining salt. Dated 19th century

Illustration depicting the signal box at Waterloo on the Charing Cross line. Dated 19th century

Rope making: 'laying' or twisting three strands of hemp yarn to form a rope. Three strands were fastened to gooks on a wheel (right of picture) The strands were placed in grooves on the piece of wood called a 'top' resting on wheeled carriage and this prevented tangling. The top man ensured an even, firm twist, and as the process progressed he gradually pushed the top and carriage towards the wheel.

The bell was the largest casting in steel up until that time. The bell weighed 2tons 12 cwt or 5,824 lb, height 5 feet 3 inches, diameter at the mouth 6 feet 2 inches, thickness at the sound bow 4and a quarter inches. Date: 1860

Making chains in the Cradley Heath district of the Black Country in the English Midlands. Women made the smaller sizes of chain. No.8 which had about 79 links per metre and weighed 2g took a woman a week to make 12.7kg for which she might earn 25p. Wood engraving, 1890.

Hackling Flax by hand. The stalks were broken apart by beating down on a metal comb. They were then retted (rotted) in water to remove the soft tissue, leaving the fibrous material. The long fibres of the stem Flax plant (Linum) were processed to produce linen. Engraving from Great Industries of Great Britain (London, c1880).

Interior view of a busy Dutch printing office Date: 16th century

Woman and boy drawing a corve containing 3-4 cwt of coal - Bolton, Lancashire, England. Woman wears harness round waist, passing between her legs and attached sledge by a chain. British coal industry c1848. Engraving

Making the Paris/London submarine telegraph cable at Newall & Company's works, High Street, Wapping. London 17th September 1851

Petroleum springs in Oelheim, oil production, pumping station, around 1882, Peine district, Lower Saxony, Germany, historical, digitally enhanced reproduction of an original from the 19th century.

Processing of rough diamonds, economy, trade, tool, workbench, young workers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, historical illustration from 1897

Manufacture of fishing equipment. Etching.

Illustration showing a woman worker, gauging watch springs at the American Watch Company, in their factory at Waltham, Mass. 1885

An engraving depicting women operating power looms in a Yorkshire woollen mill. Dated 19th century

Saddlers at work in a french shop in the 18th century making equipment for horses Date: Circa 1760

A maid operates a primitive- looking washing machine, made in America. Date: 1858

History of Spain. Tolosa, Basque Country. Interior view of the paper mill ""La Guipuzcoana"". Sizing. Drawing from life by Juan Comba. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

Slate quarries of Angers. Craft under construction, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867.

Women weaving silk, 19th century illustration

Lathes for hollow turning, top, and a pole lathe. Engraving, London, 1764.

Illustration depicting a bank of interlocking levers in a signal box. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting a blueprint machine being used in the Panhard Works, France. Dated 20th Century

Sewing strips of plaited straw together by machine to form hats. Luton, England, dated 1878.

US silk production. Hooking warp threads through the harness to form pattern. 1885.

Engraving depicting the manufacturing of wooden toys in Grafenhainichen, Saxony.

British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 3 of 12. Lap-frame was used in the lapping process of removing the dust to create a flat sheet, or lap of cotton (BSLOC_2019_7_128)

Women Workers in Cigarette Factory, Ilustration, circa 1870

An engraving depicting the grinding room of Fry's Chocolate factory, Bristol. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting the manufacturing of talking dolls fitted with an Edison phonograph. In the centre top of the picture, a woman is recording cylinders to be put into the dolls. Dated 19th century

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England beginning in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, south-east London. Such guns involved a built-up gun construction system of a wrought-iron (later of mild steel) tube surrounded by a number of wrought-iron strengthening coils shrunk over the inner tube to keep it under compression. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Type founders making metal type for a printing press near a furnace. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818.

Illustration depicting Lenin addressing workers in an armaments factory. 1918 during the Russian Civil War

France (1903). Coal mine. Engraving.

Jacquard Loom. Power operated development of Joseph Marie Jacquard's (1752-1834) invention, showing swags of punched cards on which the pattern to be woven was encoded. Chromolithograph, 1915.

An engraving depicting the pressing of grapes for wine. France 1870

Smoky stove - wood stove spewing smoke

A Day at a Derby silk-mill: Silk-doublers at work. Engraving from a british magazine printed in 1843

Metalworking, man working at soldering furnace, illustration from 1880, Germany / Metallverarbeitung, Mann arbeitet am Lötofen, Illustration aus 1880, Deutschland, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Maid using the Empire Dustless Ash Sifter, invented by J.E. Cummings. New York 1878

British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 9 of 12. Reeding or drawing in. Women pull the spun thread wrapped on a 'Beam of Warp Yarn' through the vertical spaces in the 'Reed'. The reed is part of a weaving loom, and resembles a comb, and separates and spaces the warp threads, which guide the shuttle's motion across the loom. It also pushes the weft threads into place (BSLOC_2019_7_134)

agriculture winegrowing processing desteming the grapes removing the berries from of the stemes wood engraving by H. Junker ""Die Gartenlaube"" 1893,

Engraving showing the workers of Messrs. Taylor and Sons' Factory, at Loughborough, testing the Great Bell they had manufactured for St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 1882. Date: 14 January 1882

Sifting snuff: Cope Brothers cigarette and tobacco factory, Liverpool, England. From ''The English Illustrated Magazine'', London, 1892.

Engraving depicting a process in bookbinding: rounding the back of sewn sections to produce swell to strengthen the spine and ensure proper opening of the bound volume. Dated 19th century

A Chimayo weaver at his loom. A Chimayo weaver at his loom

General view of a glassworks, showing men engaged in the various stages of making drinking glasses. In the background on the right, a man is using a mould to blow either a glass or a bottle. 1888

Thurber & Co canning factory in Moorestown, c. 1880, New Jersey, USA, here the final inspection of the sealed cans, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, North America

This illustration dates to the 1870s and showsa circular saw, a very effective machine for cutting pieces of wood of moderate dimensions. Here there is a steel disc, having its rim formed into teeth; and the disc is made to revolve with very great speed, in some cases making as many as five hundred turns in a minute, or more than eight in a second. On the bench is an adjustable straight guide, or fence, and when this has been fixed, the workman has only to press the piece of wood against it, and push the wood at the same time towards the saw, which cuts it at a very rapid rate. Sometimes the c

Gold: Minting gold coins in a stamping press at the Paris Mint. On the right, coins are being weighed to ascertain quality. Liebig Trade Card c1910. Coinage Currency Quality Control Measurement Weight Balance

Bergbau. Auskleidung von Tunneln und Schächten. Mining. Tunnel and Mine Shaft Lining. Publication of the Meyers encyclopedia, Vol. 7, Leipzig, Germany, 1910. LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/SergeyxKohlx 23252745

Sectional view of fermentation vessel at the Fanta brewery, Sèvres, France. 1870

Armour Company's pig slaughterhouse, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1892. Artist: Unknown

Weaving Mill de Wilhelm Peters (ca. 1887-1888) Norwegian painter who participated in the Modern Breakthrough in Nordic painting.

WATT, James (Greenok 1736-Heathfield, 1819). Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer.

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