Historical Drilling Equipment

Photos of early 20th-century drilling sites, featuring wooden oil derricks and well construction operations.

Wireless towers, Arlington ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Molenstation and lime oven seen from the South. (October 1926.). Construction of the millstation and the lime oven for the factory, October 1926. Part of the photo album with photos of the build-up of the sugar factory in Goenoensari on East Java by the trade association Amsterdam 1926-1927.

Naftafontän No 25, associated Brothers Nobel Aktiebolag, delivers within 24 hours 150,000 PND = (50,000 centers). Sabuntschi at Baku in 1883. (More text is available on the back of the photograph) .Fotography is available in red cardboard with the text - Pictures from some construction in Nafta production share companies The brothers Nobel.

***** well with Forsters well in background.***** Oil at Lakes Entrance (Victoria). December 21, 1939.

State Railway (SJ) Transformer and Measuring Car. Location unknown. State Railways, SJ Q26.

Anefo photo collection. Antennaast "Lange Gerrit" from Radio Kootwijk brought down; Picking down the mast. March 21, 1980

The oil tower at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.Filden is included in two large photo albums by director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked for a long time at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Working on Telephone Lines. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Coaling station for locomotives on the railroad at Syracuse, Kansas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Kansas , Syracuse, Kansas , Hamilton County

Construction of viaduct over yard

Sample load of carrying post on the line Kuosakbå - Gällivare.

Outward assembly at Kusfors.

Wachusett Department, Wachusett-Sudbury power transmission line, Sudbury Reservoir crossing, erecting 68-foot steel tower at southwesterly end of 700-foot span, Southborough, Mass., Dec. 20, 1917 , waterworks, power lines, construction sites

Transformer station in Ockelbo.

Contact management post at Kinna station area.

Transformer in unknown location.

Drawing of electricity line next to Nils-Nils on the way down to the mill. On the post Mjölnar-Viktor (Olsson), the other is the brother Olle. Photo probably 1922. Dragning av elledning intill Nils-Nils på vägen ner till kvarnen. På stolpen Mjölnar-Viktor (Olsson), den andre är brodern Olle. Foto förmodligen 1922.

Lagos - Chancery Office Building - 1976, United States photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

The electrification of the Ånge - Sundsvall route. Expiring of small power management.

Tight post on the line in Porjus.

Texas oil wells. Golden Cycle gusher. Black and white photograph

L59-7932 First University of Michigan Strongarm sounding rocket on launcher at Wallops for test, November 10, 1959. Photograph published in A New Dimension Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years by Joseph Shortal. A NASA publication. Page 701.E5-188 Shop and Launcher Pictures

Breeches Buoy Drill. Sullivans Island Lifeboat Sta. at South Carolina, rigging Line during breeches buoy drill.

Wachusett Department, Wachusett-Sudbury power transmission line, Sudbury Reservoir crossing, 68-foot steel tower (compare with No. 7431), Southborough, Mass., Aug. 1, 1918 , waterworks, power lines, construction completed

Vattenfall's switchgear.

A part of visitors (above) inspecting the drilling plant at Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, where oil was discovered. December 7, 1953.

Royal Air Force Radar, 1939-1945 Fighter Direction: AMES Type 16 Fighter Direction installation, comprising a final Ground Control of Interception (GCI) structure and a Type 24 30ft parabolic array mounted on rotation gear.

Image of a single top leader with support beam for the overhead line above three tracks on the yard in Zevenaar.

Suction transformer and sect separator.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

River Log Co.. Darius Kinsey (American, 1869 - 1945)

Pulling fountain in Galicia, near a coal mile plant.

Anefo photo collection. Drill to gas bubble at St. Anna Parish (Friesland) by French society. April 15, 1964. Friesland

The Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on September 8, 1900, in the city of Galveston, Texas, in the United States. It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour (233 km/h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It was the deadliest hurricane in US history. The hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths or injuries of any Atlantic hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and 1998's Hurricane Mitch. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. The hurricane occurred before the practice of assigning official code names to tropical storms was instituted, and thus it is commonly referred to under a variety of descriptive names. Typical names for the storm include the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane, and, e

Anefo photo collection. Drill to gas bubble at St. Anna Parish (Friesland) by French society. April 15, 1964. Friesland

Close -up of power line post after snow.

Anefo photo collection. Antennaast "Lange Gerrit" from Radio Kootwijk brought down; Picking down the mast. March 21, 1980

Anefo photo collection. New television channel in Lopik, the new television channel. January 17, 1961. Lopik

Spotting Tower No. T-620, Target Area No. 3, Petersham, Mass., Jun. 24, 1949 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, military installations, watchtowers

Aeolian turbine in noget le roi. 1958.

"Oil be Damned!" Kilgore, Texas - drilling oilwells in a churchyard! Date: circa 1940

Water Use: General - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Vintage PCB for the transport of grapes.

Photograph showing American seamen climbing up the tower of the new anti-aircraft gun on the US battleship 'Texas', 1916. Date: 1916

Gold dredge. Nye County, Nevada 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Transfer lead on the line between Porjus-Vassijaur.

Photograph of solar aerials located at the Mullard Radio Observatory, Cambridge, England. Dated 20th century

Oil derricks in residential neighborhood, Kilgore, Texas, USA, Russell Lee, U.S. Farm Security Administration, April 1939

Line images for model building.

German Wurzburg Riese Radar Installation At Sete, France. W?Rzburg Riese Fumg 65 Radar.

Wachusett Department, Wachusett-Sudbury power transmission line, attaching insulators and conductors, special double pole No. 328, Southborough, Mass., May 28, 1918 , waterworks, power lines, construction sites

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. deep ground drilling installations, sand pulses, insertion, mantle tubes, a vector. September 1967

Dredging mills. Dredging mill for use in gold mining in Aceh. Part of the photo album of the N.V. Machine factory Braat in Surabaya with photos of different products for industry from the period 1936-1953.

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

'Black Gold,' one of the many oil gushers of the rich Odessa Oil Field , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Machines, tools, workers, barrels, trees. undated

United States of America, Cool, Wouter, Circuit construction of current-voltage transformers and isolating switches, Transformers and switches at an unknown location in the United States, recto - written in pen, photograph, photo, photos, CIRCUIT CONSTRUCTION OF CURRENT-VOLTAGE TRANSFORMERS, AND ISOLATING SWITCHES, height 155 mm, width 227 mm, height 315 mm, width 330 mm, 1877-04-02 - 1947-01-30, photographer, 1936 - 1936, second quarter 20th century, paper, papier, photographic paper, fotopapier, cardboard, gelatin silver print, gelatin silver print development

Distribution Department, Northern High Service Pipe Line, Edgeworth Pipe Yard, from the south, Malden, Mass., Jul. 6, 1896 , waterworks, pipes conduits, construction sites

View on the back of the slope and a part of a light pole from the Galgenwaard Stadium in Utrecht under construction.

Vertical Radiator. In this photograph the Vertical Radiator, that is , this main antenna, is being erected. These are of all steel construction and are built in sections.

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Natural gas field in Slochteren has been officially put into use mr. Fock and Drs. De Pous during commissioning the tower. July 25, 1963. Groningen, Slochteren

Transformer station at Alingsås.

Anefo photo collection. First pile driven for Metro Rotterdam South, Drs. C. G. van Leeuwen (director RET) stores first pile. March 16, 1964. Rotterdam, South Holland

Riddarhyttans ironworks. Horse wind at the pelvic grape in 1921.

Contact line.

Couple element at an electricity mast at an unknown location in the United States, 1936 photograph United States of America paper. photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print pylons, power lines

Hagalund. Contact management details.

Oil fields. Kern County, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Kern County, Oil fields

White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff advance trip to Maine. White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff set up communications equipment at an unidentified location in Maine in preparation for President John F. Kennedys trip to Maine; WHCA officer, Ronald Danielson, and an unidentified man (standing on ladder) install an antenna. An unidentified man speaks on telephone in booth at far right.

In the Purisima hills, 1908 photograph Visit an oil bent tower in Purisima Hills in southern California. Part of the photo album of Dolph Kessler with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary of Henri Detding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908. California cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print

Railway officials in front of the lifting crane.

In 1957, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) began to plan a research laboratory in Holmdel Township in Central New Jersey. Constructed between 1959 and 1962. it served the needs of the Bell Laboratories division of AT&T, later part of Lucent, and Alcatel-Lucent.

North Africa Pix - Well-Drilling at Arram, Tunisia. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

March 1911. Optical telegraphy tower currently being built in the Spanish position of Tauima. Photo: Weight. -approximate date.

INSTALLATION OF RADIO TOWER AT SANTA BARBARA STREET.

Rural electrification. San Joaquin Valley, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Joaquin Valley, Electric lines, Rural electrification

150-FOOT TOWER UNDER CONSTRUCTION, FOUR SECTIONS UP. PHOTO TAKEN FROM 60-FOOT TOWER.

Officials. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Repair of telegrapher after thunderstorm.

Molen Westbroek. Lights of the catch. recto

Family Barbecuing at Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, Bourne, Massachusetts 8/26/1961 .

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Spotting Tower No. T-615, Target Area No. 2, Petersham, Mass., Oct. 24, 1949 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, military installations, watchtowers

Loading a concrete pile beaten as a test in the land bracket at the bridge building over the Öre River.

Image of a yes-marble for pumping up rough oil in the Schoonebeek area.

Spotting Tower No. T-615, Target Area No. 2, Petersham, Mass., Oct. 24, 1949 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, military installations, watchtowers

Mid-1920. Probably in Gnarp. On the ladder Lapp-Jonson. Standing at Kabellina Karl Kristmansson. On the bridge at the far right Clas Wennberg.

Oil fields. Kern County, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Kern County, Oil fields

Demonstration of Engineering Equipment (Water), New York , Civil defense, Pipes Conduits. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Anefo photo collection. Construction of radio and television tower in Markelo. March 19, 1957. Markelo

Power supplier's transformer station. Location unknown.

Spotting Tower No. T-626, Target Area No. 4, Ware, Mass., Jun. 24, 1949 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, military installations, watchtowers

Gusher spewing oil from top of a derrick at the Lady Hunter Well near Petrolia City, Pennsylvania. Ca. 1880

Fish wheel for catching salmon between Ft Yukon & Circle along the Yukon River. Alaska Task Force Photographs

Oil well with a side flowing gusher in the oil region of Pennsylvania, ca. 1880.

Standard drilling rig, Bradford Oil fields , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Anefo photo collection. Looking for natural gas on Ameland, De Nam Derrick at Hollum. February 6, 1964. Ameland, Hollum

Anefo photo collection. Mill in tribulation between new construction in Amsterdam-West. March 26, 1953. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

MOLINO DE VIENTO PARA SACAR AGUA - FOTO AÑOS 60. Location: EXTERIOR. ISLA. LANZAROTE. SPANIEN.

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