Engineering and Machinery Illustrations

Detailed engravings and schematics showcasing historical engineering designs, including bridges, machinery, and tools used in construction and manufacturing.

Machinery: a steam-hammer and operatives. Wood engraving, c.1870 ().
Machinery: a steam-hammer and operatives. Wood engraving, c.1870 ().
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Man working on a cart with horses before (manure creative).
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This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows the Great Steam Hammer Royal Gun Factory Woolwich. The hammer was, at the time, thought to be one of the most powerful steam hammers ever constructed. Its purpose was to forge great guns for the British Navy. The hammer was made by Nasymth & Co. Its height is about 50 feet and it is surrounded with furnaces and powerful cranes, carrying the huge iron tomgs that are to grap the glowing masses. Th hammer descend not merely with its own weight of 30 tons; steam is injected behind the falling piston, which is thus driven down with vastly enhanced rapi
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Iron industry: manufacture and machinery; ancient Egyptian knives and forge.. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Iron industry
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The engine room of the Agricultural Institute of Arts and Crafts (Conservatoire National des arts et metiers), Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 402, Volume XVI, November 8-15, 1850.
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1890s Graves Hydropneumatic or Pressure Tank System . Vintage illustration from Special illustrated catalogue of the Graves Elevator Company, 1893. Illustrates the Elevator as well as the operating system.
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A man winding a large cider press. Engraving, late 18th century ().
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SUGAR PRODUCTION A man refining sugar in a sugar factory in 18th century France. Date: circa 1760
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Sizing and dressing cotton yarn. Date: circa 1858
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The manufacture of aniline blue dye. Date: circa 1875
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Manufacture of tin products with various tools of the trade. Etching by Defehrt after Prevost.
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Old fire syringes and new hose surf sprayers, 1690; Image of d'old fire spraying (...) / Image of the new fire spraying (...). Comparison between the operation and application of old fire syringes (A) and the new hose fire spraying (B). With caption in Dutch and French. Plate 1 in the fire spa book by Jan van der Heyden.
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Bricklayer working on wooden scaffold. Top: Brickyard. Right: Miixing mortar. Hand-coloured wood engraving from children's book, London, c1845
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An engraving depicting an apparatus used distilling whisky from corn, Toronto. Dated 19th century
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Interior view of a factory.
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THE BLACKWALL TUNNEL. A cross section of the construction of the tunnel. Date: 1897
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Women at work in a power-loom factory, Lancashire 1844
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Workshop for casting mirror glasses, Frans de Bakker, 1747 print Print from a series with performances of different crafts. paper etching casting (industrial process). handicrafts ~ glass
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Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the silk threads. Engraving.
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Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58, workers casting iron in moulds in a Rotherham iron-works 59 and women spinning flax or hemp in a cottage in Snaith 60. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865.
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Agriculture.
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Allegory on Mechanics, Bernard Picart, 1729 print Putti at work at a construction site. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving mechanics
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Man-engine or movable ladder, also called The Man Lifter, various designs of which were adopted in Cornish mines. This model was at Tresavean Mine, Cornwall, said to be the first mine to install one. Powered by the steam engine at the pithead and moved with the regular stroke the miners moved alternately from footholds on A and B in the pause at the end of each stroke. Before the installation of man-engines, it could take men more than an hour to climb down vertical ladders to reach the working level. From 'The Playbook of Metals' by John Henry Pepper (London, 1862).
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1890s Vertical Hydraulic Freight Elevator. Vintage illustration from Passenger & freight, steam, hydraulic & handpower elevators Catalog of the J.W. Reedy Elevator Manufacturing Co. 1890
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Diamondworks: interior view, a wheel used by diamond cutters with various tools of the trade. Engraving.
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Negres scieurs de long. Negro pit sawyers.. Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848. Prints. 1834 - 1839. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Brazil, Saws, Blacks , Brazil, Lumber industry
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Plate XXV from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Machine for pounding grain, probably. Three wheels on a large axel, turned by a man at each end. Spokes on the axel move levers joined to poles in a frame. Each pole with a weight, and a block underneath. Commentary in Latin on verso of 1949-152-222., Europe, 1582, Print, Print
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Agricultural machinery, including plows and harrows. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Plows, Agricultural machinery & implements
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Machine for lifting water, construction drawings
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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.
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TELAR POR ENERGIA 1786.
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William Hincks, 1752-1797, Plate IX: Perspective View of all the Machinery of a Bleach Mill, upon the Newest and Most approved Constructions, Consisting of the Wash Mill, Rubbing Boards moved by a Crank, and Beetling Engine for Glazing the Cloth, with a View of the Boiling House, 1791. Stipple engraving.
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Radeau de Bois de Construction (top) and Charroi de Bois de Charpente (bottom), 1834 - 1839, by Jean Baptiste Debret (1768-1848)., 1834 - 1839, Brazil. Carts & wagons, Lumber industry, Rafts
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Address card from Abraham van Wylick; Abraham factory from Wylick to Amsterdam. In a workplace, two men are engaged in the manufacture and exciting of gold thread. In the background a man is weaving while two others make the fabrics ready.
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Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 17--.
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Crafts, Companies, 1861 - 1929 print Leaf with 8 performances of craftsmen, professions and tools. Under each image a title and a verse. Numbered at the top right: No. 19. top left: awarded by society for the use of the General. publisher: Leidenprint maker: Europeprint maker: Europe paper letterpress printing crafts and industries. craft-production, skilled handiwork. mason at work. carpenter. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries
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Manden Seller and Wever, Anonymous, After Cornelis de Wael, 1613 - 1667 print A weaver is working on his loom. A basket seller tries to sell his where to De Wever's wife. In the margin a caption in Latin. paper engraving weaving. merchant, salesman. container made of plant material other than wood: basket
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Continuous paper making machinery, Essonne paper works. Engraving 1876.
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Black slaves grinding sugarcanes in a mill (1759). Engraving.
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This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows a blast furnace in Great Britain, where the enormous quantity of iron produced from clay ironstone was first obtained in the state of cast iron by the process of smelting. In this process the clay ironstone is roasted after having been broken up into lumps. When ready, the ore is then put in a blast furnace (seen here), a structure about 40 to 50 feet high and 12 to 17 fet in internal diameter at its widest part. At E is the crucible, the bottom of which is called the hearth, and is usually formed of infusible sandstone. A is the tympstone and abo
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Gas lighting apparatus at Royal Mint, London. l: Retort. 2: Purifier. 3: Tar cistern. 4: Gas meter. From Frederick Accum 'Coal Gas', London, 1819. Aquatint.
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Mott's Patent Latrines, 1888, J.L. Mott Iron Works., 1888., New York. Publisher, J.L. Mott Iron Works. Plumbing equipment and supplies, catalogs, plumbing fixtures, wood engravings
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Where one builds a house, 1865 - 1875 print Leaf with 8 performances about building a house. From cutting down trees to placing the roof. A caption under each image. Numbered at the top right: No. 34. publisher: Amsterdamprinter: Haarlem paper letterpress printing roof (of house or building). building-site. sawing (industrial process)
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This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows a blast furnace in Great Britain, where the enormous quantity of iron produced from clay ironstone was first obtained in the state of cast iron by the process of smelting. In this process the clay ironstone is roasted after having been broken up into lumps. When ready, the ore is then put in a blast furnace (seen here), a structure about 40 to 50 feet high and 12 to 17 fet in internal diameter at its widest part. At E is the crucible, the bottom of which is called the hearth, and is usually formed of infusible sandstone. A is the tympstone and above it an opening through which the slag overflows. O is an opening for the pipes, which are connected with blowing machines supplying a constant blast of air. At the lowest point of the furnace is a tap-hole, which is completely closed by sand and clay, except when opened to allow the melted metal to be drawn off. Around the chimney is a gallery and at C is an opening through which the charges are
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Trades in Regency England: wheat harvest, oysters and buntine for flags. Farmers harvesting wheat in Essex 25, fishwife selling oysters from a stall in Colchester 26 and buntine or bunting wool cloth for flags manufactured in Sudbury 27. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865.
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France (18th c.). National Manufacture of melt steel, according to the process followed in the Sheffield factories. Etching.
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Early chemical equipment, mainly furnaces of various kinds - an assay furnace, an athanor, and a reverberatory among others Date: 18th century
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Mining; Der Berg-Bau; Verschiede Beywerke Zu Auszierung Leather Rissen und Plans (...). A rocaille ornament with a candle and attributes of a miner such as a pickaxe and a cart. In the background people are working in a closed mine. Numbered in the Lower margin AA.
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Hand spindle tap. Photo of a crane, stuck on cardboard, in red lined frame with text under and upstairs at which client E.D. manufactured for the port of Cheribon. Inscription; b. and o.: 'Gebr. Figee - Haarlem - Holland '.
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The upper walk mill together with the abrasive mill 1670, Figure 16
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Riggers fitting the mast for derrick New Custom House. 1854. text. Sketches, Personal narratives. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Building construction , Louisiana , New Orleans
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Anchors, steamboat paddle wheels, marine steam engine apparatuses, viaduct. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Equipment
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Trades in Regency England. Sail cloth, stone quarries and timber for ship building. Sailors unfurling a canvas sail on a ship 13, men moving blocks of stone in a Portland quarry 14, and timber from the New Forest sent to Portsmouth for ship building 15. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865.
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Brussels, Lenaert, N., Antwerp, Maes, Joseph, Société John Cockerill, Exhibited machines at the world exhibition in Paris in 1878, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, Livre d'or, L'art et l'industrie Belges a l'exposition universelle de 1878., A Serang, près Liége, ME Sadoine, Director Général, height 175 mm, width 233 mm, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, maker, manufacturer, 1874 - 1879, paper, collotype, photoprint, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Arizona, Jerome, Jerome State Historic Park, devoted to the copper mining history of the area, machine drilling tools