Historic Manufacturing and Production

Black and white images from mid-20th century factories showing assembly lines for car engines and machinery being assembled.

USA - 1926 - A large crane is used to remove part of a ship from a scrapped hull to a Ford manufacturing plant, where men are on a tour.

Dry Dock Number 4, Monthly Progress Photo, North Pump Casing, Alberger Pump Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Railways Fight The Cold Swap - A burning brazier strapped to one of the Water Hydrants at King's Cross Station here helps to prevent freezing during the severe cold spell now prevalent all over Great Britain. The Hydrants provide water for the tanks of engines. December 20, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Vintage photograph. A high speed precision drill easily bores holes through 3 1/2 inch thick flange on this generator

Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Bottles moving along a conveyor belt., 1936, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USA

The Royal Navy during the Second World War The man in charge of the punching machine during merchant ship building at Greenock.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Combined woodworking machine. undated

Gullaskrufs glassworks, Småland. Window glass blowing in connection with filming on June 12, 1941. The first post is swallowed.

Thomas Edison Listening to the Phonograph, Famous Americans

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