19th Century Machinery

Engravings of historical machines used in various industries, including printing presses, paper cutting machines, and assembly equipment.

The HERB AND PLANT PRESS at the Homeopathic Central Pharmacy of Dr Wilmar Schwabe, at Leipzig, Germany Date: late 19th century

The HERB AND PLANT PRESS at the Homeopathic Central Pharmacy of Dr Wilmar Schwabe, at Leipzig, Germany Date: late 19th century

An engraving depicting a Scotch carpet loom - unpowered. The Jacquard punched cards can be seen above the weaver's head. Dated 19th century

Wood barrel assembly machine. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

Foudrinier's machine for cutting paper into sheets. Engraving, c1845.

Illustration depicting a rolling press used in bookbinding, invented by Burn of Hatton Garden, London. Dated 19th Century

Engraving depicting the process of blowing glass bulbs for incandescent electric lamps

Spain, Madrid. New typographic establishment of the "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", in the Paseo de San Vicente. Glazers and Minerva printing press. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.

An engraving depicting the testing of the steel for anchorage in a hydraulic press of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge. The Brooklyn Suspension Bridge was designed and built by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869) and his son Washington Augustus Roebling (1837-1926) and opened in 1883. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting a Scotch carpet loom - unpowered. The jacquard punched cards can be seen above the weaver's head. Dated 19th century

Calico printing by blocking press. With this machine, operated by a man and his boy assistant, approximately a metre of fabric could be printed with all colours. Engraving, London, 1843.

Illustration showing the 1828, Applegath and Cowper, flatbed printing machine used for The Times in London. Augustus Applegath (1788 1871) was an English printer and inventor known for the development of the first workable vertical-drum rotary printing press.

Illustration showing Brad cutting machine 1844

Punching, beveling and chamfering machine for Montreal model barrels. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

Engraving depicting a Morse-Digney printing telegraph equipment, showing the receiving instrument, left, and transmitting key, right foreground. Dated 19th century

Joseph-Marie Jacquard's programmable loom with punch card control, Jacquard loom, 1880, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century model

industry textiles loom for carpet textiles wood engraving 1865,

Worsted manufacturing, c1845. Artist: Unknown

The finishing touches are applied by lathe to a 100 pounder Armstrong gun at the Woolwich Arsenal, London Date: 1862

Sectional view of a post mill.

Man, woman & small boy working wheel for combing long staple wool into slivers for worsted manufacture. Substitution of wheel for hand combing meant more of fleece could be used. Cheaper and coarser form of worsted resulted. Wood engraving c1845.

A Day at the royal porcelain-works, Worcester: Potters wheel, Thrower, Ball-Maker and Wheel-Turner at work. Engraving from a british magazine printed in 1843

American leather polishing machine, historical, digitally enhanced reproduction from an original around 1860.

Saw gin for cleaning cotton being operated by barefoot black labourer. Southern States of USA. Eagle gin, improved form of Whitney gin. Wood engraving, 1865

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Illustration depicting the boring of the cylinder of a steam engine: Vulcan Foundry, Washington Street, Glasgow. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting a Jacquard loom. The Jacquard machine was a device fitted to a power loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelasse. Dated 19th century

Machine for turning and beveling the bottoms of barrels. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

A Nottingham stocking weaver seated at a knitting frame. Engraving published London, 1846.

Engraving depicting the rolling iron bars. Dated 19th century

Mann arbeitet an einer Drechselbank, Drehbank, zur Holzbearbeitung, Illustration aus 1880, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Origina...

Hoe's ten feeder type revolving printing machine Date: 1872

An engraving depicting a Jacquard loom. The Jacquard machine was a device fitted to a power loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelasse. Dated 19th century

The International Exhibition: Sandford and Mallory's flax-gin, 1862. 'Although of a very unpretending appearance, the flax-gin of America may claim a value for industrial usefulness greater than some of the more attractive and highly-finished objects of the exhibition, especially as the supply of textile materials to the spinning-mills of England becomes at this time a question of solicitude. In America, where large quantities of flax and hemp are grown, any process which abridges the labour of freeing fibre from ligneous stalk is a matter of great moment, in consequence of the scarcity of man

Workshop printers intaglio, vintage engraving. Workshop printers intaglio, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673464

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

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850. 'One of Nathan Gough's four-horse vertical high-pressure engines is used for giving motion to the drilling and punching machines, which are placed one on either side at convenient distances. We have introduced a view of each of these machines. On the horizontal shaft of the engine, which passes through the top of the boiler, are three pullies of various diameters, from which two gutta percha and one leathern band pass to the two machines already mentioned. The Drilling Machine, which is one of Nasmyth's const

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A chain or rope washer pump or paternoster

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A horse driven chain or rope washer pump or paternos

An engraving depicting an appliance generator being used to supply light at Montmartre during the Siege of Paris using a steam engine as a source of power. At the top left of the picture, a searchlight directed on some distant object which is being observed by the soldier directly below. On the table are two carbon arc lamps in addition to an oil lamp. Dated 19th century

Horizontal round bottom cutting machine, for the production of round drum bottoms or discs, industrial product from the year 1880, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century model, exact original date not known

Illustration showing mules for spinning cotton. These machines are steam powered, the power being transferred from the steam engine by means of shafts and belt drives. 1898.

Engraving depicting dough mixing drums of the Peek Frean & Co.'s biscuit factory. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting a compressed air drill used for boring rock during the construction of the Mont Cenis tunnel. Dated 19th century

The Slubbing-Billy, c1880. Artist: Unknown

Alexander Smith's power loom for weaving Axminster carpets. Dated November 1862.

Illustration showing Turning chair and table legs on a lathe worked by a treadle. 1836

An engraving depicting a hydraulic chain-testing machine at Brown & Lennox's chain works, Millwall, London. Dated 19th century

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

An engraving depicting the machine used for soldering the end on food cans: Norton Brothers, River Street, Chicago. Dated 19th century

Machine for splitting wood, 1888, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Machine for soldering end on food cans. Norton Brothers, River Street, Chicago.

A Day at a Cotton Factory in Manchester: Carding-engine and factory operatives. Engraving from a british magazine printed in 1843

Production of silk fabrics, application of a primer to give the silk a better sheen, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century ori...

Small boy using a machine to cut flax stalks into uniform lengths for heckling, one of the processes in the production of linen. Engraving, London, 1846.

Cotton ginning machine with a belt conveyor, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1150, Volume XLV, March 11, 1865.

An envelope folding machine. From The History of Progress in Great Britain, published 1866.

Paris, Aubert, Gabriel, Becquet, Daumier, Honoré, Ah! You want to press at the press!, Caricature of King Louis Philippe I of France under a printing press, verso - stamped, print, cartoon, prints, height 322 mm, width 246 mm, French, 1808-02-26 - 1879-02-10, print maker, printmaker, 1833 - 1833, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1784-07-24 - 1847-03-16, publisher

Machine for splitting wood, 1888, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Engraving depicting the Columbian hand printing press, invented by George Clymer. Power was applied to the plate by means of a compound lever. George Clymer (1739-1813) an American politician, inventor, and Found Father of the United States. Dated 19th century

Workers using a hemp and flax scutching machine, scutching is the process used to clean cotton of its seeds and other impurities. From Le Savant du Foyer ou Notions Scientifiques Sur Les Objets Usuels

Paper-Cutting Machine

"Machine shop in the printing office of Julius Dittenfeld, Berlin, historical illustration in Deutsche Literaturgeschichte or German literature from 1885

industry textile weaving loom wood engraving after contemporary painting 17th century,

industry, matches, machine, husker, matchstick chipping machine, after 1850,

Steam machine

Illustration showing Cuba sugar; mill by George L. Squier & Bros, Buffalo, New York. Driven by steam engine in background

Making flat ropes for use in mining. Stitching together number of 'rounds' of hemp yarn.

Rolling mill in which blocks of refined rubber were reduced to thin sheets. From Louis Figuier Les Merveilles de l'Industrie, Paris, nd c.1870.

Catalunya. Industria téxtil, siglo XIX. Telar mecánico provisto de la máquina Jacquardt. Grabado de 1891.

Steam engine of a warship, woodcut 1888

Edison generator for electric light at Menlo Park. Behind doors is the 80 hp engine. The two vignettes (top) are Edison's improved form of JW Trowbridge's electric dynamometer and Thomson's mirror galvanometer. 'Scientific American' New York 1879.

The International Exhibition: Samuelson's machinery for crushing and grinding linseed, extracting the oil, and making oilcake, 1862. 'Every one knows how important a part oilcake plays in the production of Christmas beef and mutton...but everybody does not know how it is produced...First, there is a mill in which the linseed is ground to a moderately fine meal; it is then placed under two immense circular stones set up vertically, called edge-runners; these, by the aid of a powerful steam-engine, are made to revolve round an upright shaft, while at the same time they turn upon their own centre

Horizontal bottom circular cutting machine, for the production of round drum bottoms or slices, industrial product from the year 1880 / Horizontale Bodenrundschneidemaschine, zur Herstellung von runden Trommelböden oder Scheiben, Industrieprodukt aus dem Jahr 1880, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt, Kolorierung, koloriert, handkoloriert, Hand-colouring, hand coloured, colored.

Woman spinning with a Jersey Wheel - used for wool and cotton. On the floor in the centre foreground are the hand cards for combing the fibres prior to spinning. Dated 9th July 1836

An engraving depicting a Swiss jacquard loom for weaving ribbons. Dated 19th century

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced the printing press. His usage of movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses. Gutenberg was the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439. Among his many contributions to printing are: the invention of a process for mass-producing movable type; the use of oil-based ink; and the use of a wooden printing press similar to the agricultural screw presses of the period. His acclaim is due to the engineering of these elements into a practical system for the mass production of printed books, that was economically viable for printers and readers alike. Gutenberg's method for maki

A woodcut engraving depicting a standing screw press being used in a bookbinder's workshop. Dated 19th century

Press, vintage engraving. Press, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673557

Polishing machine patent leathers, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

THE FIRST STEAM ENGINE CONSTRUCTED AT TEHERAN, IRAN, ENGRAVING 1873

Thomas Edison's generator for electric light at his home at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1879. Artist: Unknown

Engraving depicting a butter-worker and blender for large butter factories, designed to be belt-driven. Dated 19th Century

Illustration showing weighing machine used by the Post Office at St. Martin-le-Grand, London; for weighing bulk mail sent from London to the provinces. The mail coaches were placed on a weighbridge outside, and were weighed by an official inside. 1856

An engraving depicting the biscuit cutting machine of Peek, Frean & Co.'s biscuit factory, Southwark Park, London. Dated 19th century

Event of Lyon 1834. The first took place in 1831 and is considered one of the first worker uprisings. Ah you want to rub yourself to the press. Histor

An engraving depicting a hydraulic press for printing bandanas (handkerchief squares). Dated 19th century

Town's Improved Paging Machine, Industrial America - Invention

Preparing punched cards for a Jacquard loom. Card for each weft thread of pattern. 400-800 normal, but sometimes 24,000 were worked. From George Dodd 'The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain', London, 1844. Engraving

alcohol beer brewery interior view barrel washing machine wood engraving circa 1895,

Engraving depicting a man making gilt buttons by die-stamping buttons blank. Dated 19th century

Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist, conducts an experiment to liquefy and solidify hydrogen gas, and studied properties of substances at low temperatures. Date: December 1877

Illustration depicting the signal box at Clapham Junction. Dated 19th century

Woodcut Illustration of an Indian carpet weaver, seated at a wooden loom containing threads of material. Illustration dated 1901.

An engraving depicting a hydraulic chain-testing machine at Brown & Lennox's chain works, Millwall, London. Dated 19th century

Illustration showing a candle dipping machine 1842

Woman working in an elastic mill, Leicester, England. Winding silk onto bobbins in a warping frame prior to using it to cover rubber strand. Engraving, London, 182.

An engraving depicting the process of stamping out tablets of soap at Edward Cook & Co's soap factory, Bow Bridge, London. Dated 19th century

Photography laboratory. View of Mr. Gillot's workshops. Moving tank room for biting zinc boards, Paris. France. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Putting wire wrapping around the suspension cables during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, New York Wood engraving published 1883

An engraving depicting a Jacquard loom. The Jacquard machine was a device fitted to a power loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelasse. Dated 19th century

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