19th Century Machinery

Engravings of historical machines and engines, portraying the mechanics and structures of steam engines, thread winding machines, and telegraph systems.

The working parts of James Watt's double acting engine, 1866. Artist: Unknown

Bell's Phonautograph: sounds directed to the mouthpiece caused a membrane, modelled on the action of the human ear, to vibrate. So moving a stylus which drew tracings on smoked glasss. Dated 1878

Gas lighting in the 19th century, Teerscheider, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Automatic tide gauge, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Giraudon device for the production of carburetor air used to operate a gas engine. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Machines for casting and drawing lead pipes. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.

Carpentry: a lathe, with an assortment of tools and a snake (above). Engraving after L.J. Goussier.

Historical graphic representation, apparatus for distillation by Siemens, 19th Century, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1890

Daniell cell (1836) a wet storage battery invented by the English chemist John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845). Engraving from Natural Philosophy by A Ganot (London, 1887).

Device to prepare hydrochloric acid, vintage engraving. Device to prepare hydrochloric acid, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673955

Sir Humphrey Davy, Researches,...frontispiece.

Fig. VI. Chiromylos, contundendis rebus apatus, 1662., 1662., Coloniæ Agrippinæ. Publisher, Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Flour & meal industry, Gearing, Engravings

Figs I-V: various kinds of thermometer. Fig. VI: Rain gauge. From Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 2nd edition, Florence, 1691. Galileo was a member of the Accademia. Engraving

Astronomy: a mechanism for a model of planetary motion. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.

Fig. XCIV. Antlergon, duplex. (Antlia duplex) Issued in 1662 in Coloniæ Agrippinæ by Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici. The image features engravings related to mechanical engineering, including machinery, mills, mill-work, water pumps, and gearing

Apparatus for the decomposition of water

Cross-sections and elevations of rollers for making bar iron. Engraving by Wilson Lowry after J. Farey the younger.

Large wooden sextant fixed in azimuth. From Tycho Brahe 'Astronomiae instaurate mechanica', 1602.

Gas lights by Samuel Clegg, John Stancliffe and Benjamin Cooke. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1811.

Daniell cell or gravity cell or crowfoot cell, vintage engraving. Old engraved illustration of Daniell cell, isolated on a white background.

Engraving depicting a Newcomen steam engine. Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729) an English inventor who created the first practical steam engine in 1712, the Newcomen atmospheric engine. Dated 18th century

Float and alarm whistle

Equipment for meat processing 1894: Meat Grinder, Meat Grinder, Meat Grinder in Closed Condition, Digitally Restored Reproduction of an Original 19th-century Master Copy

GAS COMBUSTION ENGINE - 1860. Author: LENOIR ETIENNE.

Egrot apparatus. Alcohol destillation. Gold medal. Exposition of Paris, 1878. Engraving by Victor Rose. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1897.

An engraving depicting a Melotrope - an early form of a player-piano by Jules Carpentier which used a punched tape to operate the piano. Jules Carpentier (1851-1921) a French engineer and inventor. Dated 19th century

Morse writing apparatus, writing telegraph, around 1870, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, ex...

Zenith sector telescopes by astronomical instrument makers George Graham, Jesse Ramsden and John Dolland. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.

Hydroextractor with electric motor, produced by Allgemeine Electricitaets-Actiengesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1894.

Engineering: a steam engine. Engraving c.1861.

Drawings that illustrate the function of various pumps. Suction pump, pressure pump, fire department pressure pump, valves - detailed view of the flapper valves that control the water flow, illustration, reproduction of a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical

Engraving depicting a Watson's turbine on the Joval (downward flow) principle. Dated 19th century

Flying ship project with copper vacuum spheres, scientific fantasy of the Italian Jesuit aeronautics pioneer Francesco Lana de Terzi, 17th century. Woodblock engraving from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Paris, 1868.

Historical graphic representation, technical drawings of a minting machine, stamping press by Thonnellier, front and side views, 19th century, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1890

An engraving depicting an electrically driven sewing machine. The motor is housed in the fly-wheel. Dated 19th century

Gramme magneto. Zenobe Gramme's small hand dynamo for laboratory work. Zenobe Gramme (1826-1901) a Belgian electrical engineer. The armature rotated between the poles of a permanent steel magnet. Inventions of the nineteenth century. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Engineering: a worm gear and spur gearwheel, side and end elevations. Coloured drawing, 1845.

Theodolite, angle measuring instrument in geodesy, 1881, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date not known

An engraving depicting a sectional view of Coffey's still, for the continuous production of spirits, in large quantities. Aeneas Coffey of Dublin, invented his still circa 1830. it was in widespread use, until the end of the nineteenth Century. (ca 1870)

Engraving depicting an air fountain. Dated 19th Century

Selfactor for the carded yarn spinning process, historical, digitally enhanced reproduction from a model around 1860.

Engraving depicting the design for water wheel driven by perpetual motion. Dated 19th Century

Production of ethanol, alcohol, ethyl alcohol and potable alcohol, 19th century, Pistorius apparatus, Pistorius distillation apparatus, dephlegmator, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original.

Late 19th century pyrography device. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1890

The meat grinder.

An engraving depicting Robinson's anemometer. Dated 19th century

'Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931), his interferometer for measuring te velocity of Awarded Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907.'

Diving suit designed by Karl Heinrich Klingert

J. Hutchinson's spirometer

Applegath's Times vertical printing machine, 1866. Artist: Unknown

18th century engraving by T Jefferys of Hydrometers. A hydrometer or lactometer is an instrument used for measuring density or relative density of liquids based on the concept of buoyancy.

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Generation of Steinheils Antiplanet.

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material.Application for radiation measurement

Model to Perpetuum Mobile, built on the principle of rotating and falling weights.

Historical graphic representation, technical drawing, various steam engines, piston heat engine, the thermal energy or pressure contained in steam is transformed into mechanical work, 19th Century, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1890

An engraving depicting a windlass used for raising weights. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting a lever of the third kind in which the power b) is applied between the resistance p) and the fulcrum c). Dated 19th Century

Historical graphic representation, technical drawing, steam engine according to Woolf's System with Collmann-steering by Arthur Woolf, piston heat engine, the thermal energy or pressure contained in steam is transformed into mechanical work, 19th Century, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1890

Earth closet by Lieut-Col. Baird, manufactured by Whieldon, Lecky & Lucas, London. When weight of body lifted from seat, soil was automatically shot into tray, E, from reservoir, B. Engraving, London, 1871.

Engraving depicting John Frederic Daniell's original electric cell (1836) which was the first constant battery cell. Cut away view showing an outer copper vessel B) forming the positive (+) plate, and inner porous cell C) containing a zinc cylinder forming the negative (-) plate: liquid O,O)was diluted sulphuric acid.

Engraving depicting John Cuthbertson's static electric machine

Hot-air engine after Mansfeld, Leipzig, 1880, Germany, Historic, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Borchers apparatus for the preparation of sodium by electrolysis, vertical section, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

Dickinson's 37 inch Reed space loom. From The National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, published c.1890

Illustration showing Air pump. Fig 33 shows a typical pump with a rack-and-pinion mechanism for exhausting the bell. Fig 34 is a cross-section of the rack-and-pinion mechanism. 1820

Engraving depicting Berliner's central commutator, based on Schweizer's apparatus, used to serve 25 telephone subscribers. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting a secondary battery. Battery of rectangular form of Plante cells (accumulator).

Caselli's Pantelegraph: one of the first machines to send facsimile prints via electric telegraph. From Louis Figuier 'Les Merveilles de las Science', Paris, 1870.

Steam engines of the 19th century, type of a horizontal single-cylinder engine with Sulzer control, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Holden system for making ice. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1899

Illustration depicting the Breguet's and Bellancourt's serial telegraph. Dated 19th Century

Atmospheric machine according Newcomen principle drawing of the steam engine human Newco / Atmosphärische Maschine nach Newcomen, Prinzipzeichnung der Newcomenschen Dampfmaschine, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Optics and optical theory, 19th century illustration

Incision of the steam turbine fans (drawing).

Historical graphic representation, technical drawing, steam boiler, boiler tube by Howard, Howard boiler, Howard safety boiler, 19th Century, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1890

Photographic camera equipped with a telescope. Created by Lacombe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Transmitter of optical signals for railways, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1907.

Engraving depicting a reconstructed Roman ballista, an engine used by ancient Romans to fire arrows. Dated 19th century

Surveying levels or theodolites designed by Mr. Jesse Ramsden and Mr. Edward Troughton. Copperplate engraving by W. Lowry after an Illustration by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' "Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary," London, 1817.

Lavoisier's investigation of the existence of oxygen in the air, late 18th century, (1894). Artist: Unknown

Hydraulic system for the production of electricity, Sondrio, Italy, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1894.

A paddle-driven beam-engine suction pump for raising water, used at London Bridge. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after J. Farey.

Surgical apparatus: a chair used for surgery. Engraving with etching.

Boudet's microphone: this consisted of a glass tube 3ins long and 0.4 ins in diameter. Copper cylinder, M was connected to membrane of rubber (D) at one end and to six carbon balls at the other. Screw at V was used to adjust pressure of contact between balls. Dated 1882.

Working model of MacIntosh-Seymour Marine Steam Engine made by Watertown Arsenal Apprentice School. Working model of MacIntosh-Seymour Marine Steam Engine made by Watertown Arsenal Apprentice School

Long range water level. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1890

Machine for perforating paper used in the Ratiere Staubli system, with endless paper design, weaving machine, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1900.

Das chronophotographische gewehr, das photographische gewehr, wurde 1883 vom französischen physiologen étienne-jules marey erfunden und ermöglichte da...

Demonstration to show that sound is carried by a movement of air. Two wooden boards clapped together disturb surrounding air, moving air in tube and jet from nozzle disturbs candle flame. From ''Sound'' by John Tyndall, London, 1867.

Engineer Oscar Larsson's collection of physical appliances, a precursor to the popular sparkle Institute Urania at Narvavägen 31 in Stockholm. Apparatus for demonstration of static electricity.

TRILLADORA PRESENTADA EN LA EXPOSICION AGRICOLA 1857.

An early cardiograph used by J.B.A. Chauveau. Photograph.

Illustration showing PATERNOSTER (cyclic elevator) Passengers using Frederick Hart's elevator fitted in Mansion House Chambers, London. Machine was powered by steam engine at the top of the building. 1882

Drawing of a washing machine for woven fabrics, industrial product from the year 1880 / Zeichnung einer Waschmaschine für gewebte Stoffe, 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.

This 1870s illustration shows the slide valve that was part of the steam engine. the Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer. James Watt (1736-1819) was said to have discovered the power of steam when he placed his hand in front of kettle that held a very hot liquid. Watt's improvements to the steam engine were key to the changes that came with the Industrial Revolution.

Regenerative Hot-Blast Stove, 1866. Artist: Unknown

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.din sensitometer.

Illustration showing Radiguet's incandescent photographer's developing lamp, powered by a wet cell. Paris, 1891

Riveting machine by D. and J. Tannahill, historical, digitally improved reproduction from an original around 1860.

Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Etching by C. Leigh, 1741, after W.H. Toms.

Sectional view of Liverpool Gas Works, 1860. Artist: Charles Partington

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