19th Century Scientific Apparatus

Engravings of historical scientific machines including a film projector, presses, and electrical devices, showcasing a vintage aesthetic.

Marking Machine, 1866. Artist: Unknown

Preparation of pyrophoric iron, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869.

Self-propelled machine according to the principle combination of pendulum and rotary movements. Made of the iron leverage Emil August Lundell. Lundell built machines to convince himself and others that a mechanical Perpetuum Mobile was insoluble. The 1870s.

Historical telephone, Edison system, historic wood engraving, about 1888

Rotary ozonator at the Compagnie de l'Ozone factory in Paris. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1899

The apparatus for collecting the atmospheric gases from sea-water. In: 'The Voyage of the CHALLENGER - The Atlantic' Vol I, by Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 1878

An engraving depicting the receiver of Foy and Breguet's needle-telegraph. Dated 19th century

$No. 1. Section of the air intake valve, adopted by Mr. Ricour, on the locomotive steam box. - No. 2. Steam box with ordinary flat drawer fitted with air inlet valve. - No. 3. Steam box with cylindrical drawer. - No. 4. Section of the firebox showing the refractory brick screen placed in front of the tubular plate. - No. 5. Attaches the water circulation tubes supporting the brick screen. - No. 6. Wash buffer. Old illustration by Louis Poyet (1846-1913) from La Nature 1887$

The Difference Engine by Charles Babage, being the first computer, nineteenth century.

Engraving depicting Richard Trevithick's Catch-Me-Who-Can Locomotive of 1808. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England. Dated 19th century

Elektrotechnik, Flaschenelement und Bunsenelement, Spannungsquelle, die eine elektrische Spannung von etwa 1, 9 V liefert, Deutschland, 1876, Historis...

Melotrope: An early form of player-piano by Jules Carpentier which used a punched tape to operate the piano. From Scientific American, New York, 20 August 1887.

Engraving depicting a coelostat, an instrument with a rotating mirror that continuously reflects the light from the same area of sky, used for monitoring the path of a celestial object. Dated 19th century

Photograph of the back view of the tide predicting machine, designed by Lord Kelvin in 1876. Constructed by Lege for the Indian government, it was used for 23 years as a means for automatically calculating the tides at Indian ports, as well as the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada. The principle of the tide indicator is the geometric construction known as harmonic motion. Date: 12th Sep 1903

Heron of Alexandria constant flow siphon. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1884

Cross section through the firebox, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.

Horizontal triple-expansion steam engine with Elsner control from the Goerlitz machine factory, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Germany, Europe

Lighter Gay-Lussac, vintage engraving. Lighter Gay-Lussac, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679236

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 8.5x11.5 Retouch. Photo cliche no. 2151, INSTRAD IX, no. 45 fig.3, protection milling bank /. undated

Corby & Browning's mircospectroscope. 1895.

ASTRONOMIA. TEODOLITO. CONSTRUIDO POR BARROW. LONDRES HACIA EL AÑO 1853. ANTEOJO : DISTANCIA FOCAL 24 cms. OBSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO NACIONAL. MADRID.

Azimuth compass Date: 1797

LUMIŽRE, Auguste (1862-1954). French biologist and industrialist. Inventor of the Cinematograph.; LUMIŽRE, Louis (1864-1948). Chemist and inventor of the Cinematograph. The Lumiere cinematograph invented in 1894. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Conservatoire National des Arts et M_tiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Trades).

Photo collection Government information service. Model made by teacher J.W. Sheep and his students in 1842 at the Leiden Society Mathesis Scientiarum genitrix of a watt-steam machine .. undated. Leiden, Zuid-Holland

AC electric motor with rotating field, hermetically closed model, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1898.

A part of the Daniell battery

Electric thermometer for temperature measurement, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1900.

Mechanismus des Zeigertelegraf von Louis Clément François Breguet, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Edison's phonometer which used the energy generated by speech to drive a flywheel. He claimed the power could be usded to drill a hole in a wooden wall. From ''La Nature'', Paris, 1878.

Historical graphic representation, technical drawing, receiver compound engine for the propulsion of ships' propellers, steam engine, piston heat engine, the thermal energy or pressure contained in steam is transformed into mechanical work, 19th Century, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1890

Jacob Brett's electric printing telegraph, patented in 1845.

Laboratory for testing electric cables in the late 19th century. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1890

Apparatus for moulding large pieces of Sevres using a pump to create a vacuum. Engraving, Paris, c1870.

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

Loud phone for closed environments, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1907.

Tandem gas engine, Otto cycle, double-acting, 1000 hp, produced by Langen and Wolf, Milan, Italy, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1903.

Typewriter patented by John Pratt in 1866 . Chromolithograph 1915

Abbildung einer Gesteinsbohrmaschine aus dem Humboldt-Institut für Maschinenbau, in Kalk bei Köln am Rhein, Deutschland, Historisch, digital restaurie...

Engraving depicting Joseph Bramah's bank note printing machine, used by the Bank of England from 1809. Up to this date the numbers were entered on notes by hand, but Bramah's machine incorporated a consecutive numbering device which enabled a single clerk to deal with 2,600 notes per day instead of 400.

Electrodynamic Edison Machine, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque (1882).

Edison's voice amplifying machine, c1878. Artist: Unknown

Heron's ball, Aeolian ball, Aeolipile or Aeolipile by Giovanni Branca, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century.

This 1870s illustration shows how Newcomen's Steam Engine worked. English inventor Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729) invented the first practical steam engine in 1712. His atmospheric engine, the first practically useful engine in which a piston moving in a cylinder was employed. The letters correspond accordingly: c (cylinder), h (piston), d and e and f (pipes), k (cock), m (pump rod), g (cistern), d(opening to cylinder).

An electric lightning board, technology, industrial product from the year 1880 / Ein elektrischer Blitzableiter, Technik, 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.

Engraving depicting Boyden's outward flow turbine, based on the Foureyron Principle. Dated 19th century

The Hveem stabilometer is a triaxial testing device used to determine the stability of bituminous pavement mixtures, soils, and other plastic or semi-plastic materials.

Engraving depicting a novel idea for harnessing a child's natural vitality for doing the washing. Dated 19th century

Copper oxide battery. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1884

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Display chart, coal preparation II, illustration, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopedia, 1897

Engraving depicting Luigi Galvani's experiment which investigates the behaviour of muscles stimulated by electricity. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher. Dated 18th century

Dynamo, electromagnetic machine by Antonio Pacinotti (1841-1912), the first direct current electrical generator.

Helios transformer, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1892.

Illustration depicting Edmond Carré's apparatus for large-scale production of ice. Dated 19th century

Watt Steam Engine by James Watt (1736-1819). Engraving, 19th century.

Electric current produced by a conductor revolving in the field of an electro-magnet; current measured by a galvanometer Date: 1889

Illustration showing the arrangement of celluloid film in Edison's Kinetoscope. From La Nature, Paris, 1894

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.The screen for film to roll film (from the company G. Gobel A. G. in Darmstadt). For more info see: Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1942. p. 236.

Grand torch air and gas from the lighting, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869.

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.Geöffnetes mutoscope for viewing images in motion.

Engraving depicting a miniature diving bell, showing how a condensing pump can supply air to an inverted vessel surrounded by water, the excess air escaping as bubbles from the bottom. Dated 19th Century

An engraving depicting a Bristol portable accumulator. A lead/acid battery- used to power portable electric lights.

Charles Babbage´s Analytical Engine, 1871. This was the first fully-automatic calculating machine. Charles Babbage (1792-1871) first conceived the ide...

Engraving depicting a portable electric light which used a zinc or carbon dry cell power source

Small incubator sufficiently large for individual work, vintage engraved illustration.

The Talisman ship. Scientific expedition of the Travailleur and Talisman ships to dredge the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1883

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.Cinemasko projector of the mark Zeiss.

Skiopticone image with motives of Stockholm exhibition in 1897.

Turbine. Fromont, C.M. Ferrier & F. von Martens attributed to, Claude-Marie Ferrier attributed to, Friedrich von Martens attributed to, 1851.

An engraving depicting a planetarium or miniature greenhouse with an opening glass lid for growing plants in a room. Dated 19th century

Lavoisier and Meusnier's apparatus for the decompostion of water, 175

Dondi's Astronoical Clock. (Reconstruction) 1364.

Illustration showing SCHANSCHIEFF's battery being used to power a table lamp and a miner's lamp The battery plates were of zinc and carbon, and the liquid sulphate of mercury 1888

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as teaching material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology 1948-1958. the number. Two projectors from the company Pathé, the later projector with film wheel for longer films. For with info: see the photographic manual of Helmer Bäckström. Nature and Culture. Other revised edition1958-59 pp 1266.

Ader-Bell telephone - wall mounted model. From Louis Figuier Les Nouvelles Conquetes de la Science, Paris, 1883.

Apparatus for wine analysis. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1890

Mansfield's Apparatus for Evaporating Saccharine Juices, Industrial America - Invention

Cannon of the Sixteenth Century, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897

Household electricity, lighting device with accumulators and copper sulphate batteries. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1884

Watt's first rotary engine, 1769. Illustrations. 1830. Rare Book Division. Steam-engines

Steam engine by James Watt, 1915. Artist: Anon

Coherer Receiver by Guglielmo Marconi. He used this device for a public demonstration of wireless in London's Toynbee Hall in 1896. At a public lecture given by William Preece, chief engineer to the General Post office, whenever Preece switched a transmitter and created an electric spark, a bell rang on a box Marconi took to any part of the lecture room. The demonstration caused a sensation and made Marconi a celebrity.

Old fashioned microscope, isolated against white background.

Advertisement for Lord Kelvin's patent tap.

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