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

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

Textile industry, spinning mill, 19th century, combing machine, English construction, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century pattern

Hungary, Budapest, Interior of a newspaper print shop, watercolor

Power station in Berlin, 19th century. Drawing by Kircher. Engraving. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Bibliothque des Arts D_coratifs (Decorative Arts Library).

Winding machine for transferring raw silk from hangs to bobbins: Lombe's silk mill, Derby. 1843

Bilder von einem luxuriösen Ozean Schnelldampfer um 1890, Kommandobrücke, Schiff Columbia der Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft, HAPAG, Historisch, authentisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4904157

Textilindustrie, Spinnerei, Männer arbeiten an einer Flachsschwingmaschine, Flachsschwingmaschine, um 1880, digital verbesserte Reproduktion einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Historisch, genaues Datum unbekannt

One of two types of primitive iron furnaces in India is shown in this 1903 illustration.

Dampfhammer zum Schmieden einer Schiffswelle, erfunden von James Nasmyth, Schottland, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4903567

Coining Press at the Royal Mint, London. Wood engraving 1891

Engraving depicting the engine room of the HMS Warrior, the first iron-hauled armoured warship. Dated 19th century

Sodare revolver furnace, melting furnace for the production of soda / Sodarevolverofen, Schmelzofen zur Herstellung von Soda, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Engraving depicting a milk condensing unit in France. Dated 19th Century

MAQUINARIA-MANO DE OBRA EN LAS FABRICAS DEL "NORTE".

Illustration depicting a 'Minerva' printing press for small work usually carried out in a hand press, and workable by hand or by power. Dated 19th century

Melting furnace for the production of soda, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Engraving depicting the raising of a large slab of stone and mortar using a rope and pulley. The power from the man at the crank wheel is transmitted through gearing, including crown and pinion (E,F) and worm and pinion (M,H). Dated 17th century

Engraving depicting the Arch-Albany butter working machine, showing the helical roller put to one side, while the making-up board has been brought into position. Dated 19th Century

English An engraving, showing the Turning of barley into malt: removing rootlets from grain, by screening after the kiln stage. 1860

Steam hammer for forging a ship's propeller. invented by James Nasmyth. Scotland. Historical. digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century model

Cottage industry; Making pins: Gloucester, England 1823

The progress of the century - the lightning steam press, the electric telegraph, the locomotive, and the steamboat. Man using telegraph in foreground; in background are people using steam press, steamboat, and locomotive. 1876

Fishing, processing of fish, here drying in front of smoking, 1880, Kiel, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th centu...

Engraving depicting Richard March Hoe's rotary printing press. Richard March Hoe (1812-1886) an American inventor from New York City who designed a rotary printing press and related advancements. Dated 19th century

Illustration showing Woodworking lathe. From the Rev. Isaac Taylor 'Scenes of British Wealth in Produce, Manufactures and Commerce'. London, (c* 1832)

Lathe operators, casters and moulders, manufacturing of porcelain, wood engraving, about 1880

A Spitalfields silk weaver at his hand loom, 1884. Artist: Unknown

Man operating machine for punching cards for Jacquard looms. 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

Illustration depicting cotton manufacture with mules spinning. Dated 19th Century

Sectional view of manhole in New York street, showing telephone cables being spliced. The Eclectic Telephone, New Tork, 1890.

A forge, splitting mill trussing, 1751-1777. Artist: Denis Diderot

Workers in an electroplating factory doing galvanizing, electroplating or electroplating technology, electroplating / Arbeiter in einer Galvanisierungsfabrik beim galvanisieren, Galvanotechnik oder Galvanik, Electroplating, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Máquina prensadora para fabricación de sombreros. Grabado de 1888.

Illustration showing Raising water by means of an endless chain of buckets

A worker inserting wicks into the candle molds in the Jaillon Moinier tallow candle factory, La Villette, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 430, Volume XVII, May 22-29, 1851.

Engraving depicting a simple, inexpensive machine capable of producing 3,000 drainage pipes per working day. Dated 19th Century

ROTARY pump being used to raise water.

A Day at the british needle-mills, Redditch: Needle-pointer at work. Illustration from a british magazine printed in 1843

Great Steel Bell to be used as a fire alarm in San Francisco, circa 1860

An engraving depicting the production of butterine at the Armour Co., Chicago: pressing fat. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting a weaver preparing his draw loom to weave a pattern. Dated 19th century

Manufacturing Gruyere cheese in a Swiss chalet - rinsing the crust Date: 1870

An engraving depicting a Brandy distillery, France. Dated 19th century

Industrial plant around 1890, steam engine in industrial use, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date of presentation unknown, historical

The manufacture of rope: here rope is being spun from heckled hemp carried round the spinner's waist. A few fibres were attached to the spinning wheel at one end of the rope walk. As the wheel turned, the spinner walked backwards, taking threads of hemp and joining them in as necessary. Dated 1842

Allen & Hanbury,pate de guimauve - marshmallow - pan

Filling beer barrels in an American brewery. Wood engraving published 1885.

INDUSTRIA SIGLO XIX. FABRICA DE CERILLAS. GRABADO AÑO 1895. CERILLERA.

Engraving depicting a woman at a paper machine

Fulling stocks. Date: circa 1858

The Hotchkiss and Buss Brick and Tile Machine. Original caption: "The Hotchkiss and Buss Brick and Tile Machine" - November 25, 1868 - page 337.

Girl spinning wool at Foster's mill, Bradford, Yorkshire, England Date: 1902

An engraving depicting the charging of a blast furnace, Butterley Ironworks, Derbyshire. Dated 19th century

Shearing a length of carpet to produce a smooth pile. London, August 1843

Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Warping and winding, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

An engraving depicting a vertical loom with stones used as weights to keep tension. In use in the Faroe Islands in the 19th-century, but similar to ones that would have been used in Britain in the 9th to 11th centuries for weaving woollens. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting Pommery & Greno's champagne production at Reims, France. Champagne bottles turned by hand. 1889

Gusum's use. Button needle manufacturing.

Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Spinning, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

A Chimayo weaver at his loom , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Detail of the illustration in the vignette of a historical stock certificate of an oil and gas company, showing a man opening a valve of a pipeline in front of oil derricks, oil tanks and a city, Atlantic Richfield Company, now part of BP, ARCO Pipe Line Company, Delaware, USA, 1977, North America

Metalworking, Man working at the brazing furnace, Illustration from 1880, Germany, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Tools, historical illustration 1897, rough diamond grinding, diamonds, work, economy, trade, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Engraving depicting Colvin's hydraulic milking machine: corrugated rubber suction cups were placed over the teats. Oscillating pumps gave the motion of a calf sucking, and created a partial vacuum, and the milk was drawn off into churns set in the floor. At the right of the picture the cow is being released from the stall, and the cups have been removed and swung out of the way and can be seen by the churn. Dated 19th Century

Textile industry, The processing of cotton around 1840, Spinning, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

René Upward Pile Chlorine Tanks. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Machinery for Filling Bottles with Artificial Mineral Waters, Chemistry & Physics

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