Historical Industrial Illustrations

19th-century engravings depicting various manufacturing processes and machinery in historical factories.

Arley pit, near Wigan, Lancashire, the scene of an explosion that left 57 dead on 23rd March 1853. 1853

Joseph Pennell, Making Rifles, 1917 Making Rifles

Engraving depicting the sluices and salt pans at salt works in Bouches-du-Rhône, Southern France. Dated 19th century

Application of cold to industry. Raoul Pictect system. Interior view of a large beer factory. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Historical illustration, Bochumer Verein, crucible steel factory, Germany, 1880, Europe

Limmer asphalt plant in Hannover, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, woodcut, historical engraving, 1882, Europe

Copelands factory at Stoke-on-Trent (The Potteries), Staffordshire, England.. The Bank, showing the bottle kilns and the pollution from smoking chimneys. Engraving, London, 1860.

Making Rifles. Dated: 1917. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joseph Pennell.

First World War (1914-1918). Aircraft factory (July 1918).

Electric oven for aluminum production. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

. In a forge, the blacksmith strikes the anvil. There are several tools on the ground. On the left a boy is next to a small child. Right side of the side hangs a large bellows. Parts of a harness are in the foreground.

Sinking an exploratory bore hole using shearlegs, and a lever to work the borer. From 'The Popular Encyclopaedia' (London, 1862). Engraving.

The great hammer , Forging, Iron industry, Industrial facilities, Steam hammers. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle area, showing engine house (left) providing power for the winding gear (centre) which is raising baskets (corves) of coal from the bottom of the pit and filling the wooden railway wagons. On the wagon at left the brake is easily visible. From W. Fordyce 'A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields ...', London, 1860.

Smoking chimneys in the mining district, coal mines and ironworks c. 1860, Middlesborough, England, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unknown

Steel plants in Pennsylvania - Drawing by Joseph Pennell, circa 1915

Industrial and agricultural exhibition held by the company "Tranquil-Taller". Engraving by Ovejero in "The Spanish and American Illustration." 1879. LLeida. Catalonia. Spain.

Joseph Pennell, Shell Factory, NoI, 1917 Shell Factory, No.I

Spanish Civil War: '... At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (19361939) the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and dry docks in Ferrol, Gallicia, were taken over by the state and nationalized. drawing C. Saenz de Tejada

Shot of different parts of a foundry, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Engraving depicting asbestos being used as insulation. Battery of boilers providing power at the Paris Exposition, with asbestos cladding. Dated 19th century

BORING THE CYLINDER OF THE 'BRITANNIA PRESS,' AT THE BANK QUAY FOUNDRY, WARRINGTON, CYLINDRER OF THE GREAT HYDRAULIC PRESS USED FOR RAISING THE TUBES OF THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE

Image of extinguishing the fire at Central Station (Stationsplein) in Utrecht (Utrecht et al.), Seen from the platform.

Joseph Pennell, The Coal Mine, 1916 The Coal Mine

A watercolor by Rudolf von Alt from 1873 depicting the paper mill in Kleinneusiedl near Fischamend, showing architectural and industrial details.

An engraving of Brewing: storage vats at Barclay and Perkins Brewery, Southwark. 1847.

An engraving depicting the unloading of coal barges at a gas works. Dated 19th century

Construction of the Panama Canal. Works in the estuary of the Rio Grande. Engraving, 1886.

Camperdown Linen Works, Dundee, Angus, Scotland. Proprietors, Cox Brothers. In spite of its name, this was a Jute mill, and Cox Brothers had a branch in Calcutta, India, which ensured the proper handling and shipping of its raw material. All materials entered and left the factory by rail, and it had its own branch line connecting it with the main railway system. From 'Great Industries of Great Britain' (London, c1880). Engraving.

Engraving depicting a steam crane.

Platinum still for concentrating sulphuric acid (Oil of Vitriol or H2S04), 1844. Artist: Unknown

Engraving depicting the crushing of caliche at the Primitiva Nitrate Works, Chile.

The engineer Savalle's machinery for refining alcohol, Springer grain distillery at Maison-Alfort, France, illustration by Guiguet from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1708, Volume LXVI, November 20, 1875.

The Broome Street manufactories.. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Factories , New York (State) , New York, New York (N.Y.)

Inside a Brewery at Diest in Leuven, Belgium, drawing by Clerget based on a photograph, vintage illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, 1881

View in Gas Works, Chemistry & Physics

In the 'Examining Hall' of the opium factory, 'the consistency of the crude opium as brought from the country in earthen pans is simply tested, either by the touch, or by thrusting a scoop into the mass. A sample from each pot (the pots being numbered and labelled) is further examined for consistency and purity in the chemical test room'.

THE EXPLOSION AT EDMUND'S MAIN COLLIERY, BARNSLEY, 1862

Gasworks. Date: March 1882, The Hague. Dimensions: 23.8 cm x 33.8 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

The slaughter process from pig to pork at Armour's Chicago plant. Date: 1897

Engraving depicting the 'Great Eastern' used during the creation of the Atlantic Telegraph. Shows the men working by gas light. Dated 19th Century

United States of America. Commercial movement and appearance of the New Orleans city pier. Engraving by Ovejero. La Ilustracion Española y Americana, 1881.

Engraving depicting the Ramirez nitrate works, Chile.

industry chemical industry soda natron plant in Szczakowa Galicia Austria-Hungary wood engraving circa 1900,

Engraving depicting skins hanging out to dry in a tannery.

Engraving showing main store of the Corporation of Trinity House at Trinity Wharf, Blackwall, with buoys, markers and name boards. At the Trinity Wharf store, buoys were repaired, painted and kept in reserve, ready for use at sea. Date: 1868

Interior of a sugar factory in La Havana (Cuba). 1857. Engraving. 19th century. Madrid, national library of Fine Arts. Author: EDUARDO LAPLANTE (1818-1860). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Panama Canal: excavating with steam-powered earth excavators and earth transporters at Tabemilla, 1888, Wood engraving,

IN THE BATTERY OF AN AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINE

The electrical installation in the United States in the late 1800s, pipes to conduct electricity under the streets. USA. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1889

Nant-y-Glow Iron Works, Monmouthshire, Wales, c1780, (c1830). Artist: Unknown

Nant-y-Glow Iron Works, Monmouthshire, Wales: proprietor Richard Crawshay (1739-1810). Hand-coloured engraving c1830 after watercolour by George Robertson c1788, showing the scene by moonlight. Buildings on left probably Puddling furnaces, those on the right Blast furnaces.

Swedish Gold List Factory in Karlstad.

An engraving depicting the construction of the northern outfall tunnels for the Metropolitan Main Drainage Scheme at Plaistow. Dated 19th century

English War Work: The Old Shipyard, 1916. Joseph Pennell (American, 1857-1926). Lithograph;

Cross section of a pottery kiln during the firing. Engraving, Paris, c1870.

Cooking spit turned by dog shut in a tread-wheel.

An engraving of Brewing: cooling the wort after boiling and before Fermentation. Barclay & Perkins Brewery, Southwark. 1847.

Black Country near Bilston, Staffordshire, England, at night, showing glowing furnaces and chimneys belching smoke. Engraving from 'Staffordshire and Warwickshire Past and Present' by John Alfred Langford (1872). The pollution caused by the heavy industry in this area of the English Midlands gave it its name of Black Country.

Engraving depicting the grinding of grain in a brewery. Dated 18th century

'Cutting the entrance for the Severn tunnel (1873-1886) to take the Great Western Railway under the River Severn to link England and Wales. Engineer: John Hawkshaw (1811-1891) Engraving, 1892.'

Toomoles, ca. 1625, DURK EVERYS LONS, 1631 print A chamois and learning mill. On the right in the foreground a figure at a shed. Numbered below: 1. paper etching windmill

Engraving depicting hides hung out to dry at a tannery. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting a water tower being reinforced with concrete. Dated 20th century

Laying telephone cables under a New York street, showing sectional view of manholes and conduits. Metropolitan Telephone Co. The Electric Telephone, New York, 1890.

A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the 'Screw-Em-Out' golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course. Date: 1928

Ein Hochofen zur Eisenschmelze, Eisenindustrie, England, im Jahre 1883, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19...

A busy drying room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

Constructing the Hudson River Tunnel between New York and New Jersey : laying the iron plates that line the tunnel. Date: 1880

An engraving depicting the production of sulphuric acid in lead chambers. Dated 19th century

East London, England. View across curved river running through factory district, alone in small boat, foreground, smokestacks belching black smoke beyond and in distance, circa 1908

An engraving of Brewing: cleansing tanks in which the beer was cleared, after primary fermentation and before it was placed in vats, 1860

Processing of herrings in the harbour of Wick in Scotland in 1880, the fishermen are put into wooden barrels with salt, Historic, digitally restored r...

A Blast Furnace for Iron Smelting, Iron Industry, England, in 1883, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork

The India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co. Silvertown, London. From Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain, Wyman & Sons, London, 1887.

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 thisprocess 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.

CEREMONY OF LAYING THE FIRST STONE OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS

Bituminous Coal Plant by Carrie Pattison, oil on canvas, Circa 1935, USA, Pennsylvania, University Park, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Steidle Collection

Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles - William Cockerill Stand - A British-born Blacksmith who founded the engineering business in 1799. Date: 1910

Bank of furnaces Lymington Iron Works, Tyneside, England. Illustration by Thomas Allom published 1835. By this time Nielsen hot blast process (1824) in general use. Engraving

Members of the London Fire Brigade fighting a fire in a coach builders' workshops in Oxford Street near Hannover Square.

An early stage of battleship construction, England. Date: 1902

British 1840s depiction the 'Progress of Cotton', by Richard Barfoot, 4 of 12. Carding disentangles, cleans, and intermixes fibers to produce a continuous web or sliver (BSLOC_2019_7_129)

Serie Industrieanlagen, Fleisch Extrakt Fabrikation, Fray-Bentos, Argentinien, Trockenplätze für die Fleischabfälle, zur Bereitung des Futterfleischmehl / Series Industrial Plants, Meat Extract Fabrication, Fray-Bentos, Argentina, drying places for the meat waste, for the preparation of the feed meat meal , digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital verbesserte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

Machinery Hall at the Universal Exposition, Paris

Historical illustration, 19th century, technical processing of steelmaking in a blast furnace, 1894

Sunset Bowling Center. ca. 1945, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Hollywood, CA. An impressive spectacle of unequalled color is offered by a view of the 26 ball racks and the chalk boxes which stand at attention at the head of Sunset Bowling Center's 52 lanes. Balls and equipment were selected only from the very finest stock. Sunset Center is located on the Warner Bros. lot where Hollywood's first talking picture was made.

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