Historical Scientific Illustrations

Vintage engravings showcasing various mechanical inventions and bookbinding processes, highlighting intricate designs and engineering principles.

Shaft of Jupiter, vintage engraving. Shaft of Jupiter, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679161
Shaft of Jupiter, vintage engraving. Shaft of Jupiter, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679161
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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.strobo cup projector by Franz v. Uchatius.For more info See: Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Other revised edition. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1948. p. 1253.
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An engraving depicting a machine used for the transportation of small trees with minimal disturbance of the roots. Dated 19th century
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Carpentum, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.
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Recording rain gauge, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Darwin's theory of the formation of Coral Reefs and Coral Islands.
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An engraving depicting a clockwork swimming doll, showing the mechanism. 19th century
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Medieval torture. Movable iron cage. Engraving after a woodcut in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia universalis", published in Basel in 1552. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-ge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.
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Hooper's patent submarine telegraph cables, 1862. 'Mr. Hooper's cable is composed of the usual copper or other conductor insulated with indiarubber, which is now generally admitted to be by far the best material on account of its high insulating quality, its low inductive capacity, and its being unaffected by the heat of tropical climates...inclosing the indiarubber insulated wire within a jacket or coating of vulcanite or vulcanised indiarubber...decomposition is prevented, as the indiarubber...becomes firmer by time...Another feature...is the protection of the wires used for tensile streng
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Illustration of Dean's diving helmet, invented by John Deane (1800-1884). Dated 19th Century
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Engraving depicting elasticity by flexure: glass bottle as a spring. A wine bottle has been cut in a spiral, first by using a file, then a hot pencil made of lamp black, gum arabic, adraganth and benzoin. When cut in this fashion, the glass exhibits springiness. Dated 19th Century
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This 1870s illustration shows the governor and throttle-valve that was part of James Watt's steam engine. A Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, James Watt (1736-1819) was said to have discovered the power of steam when he placed his hand in front of kettle that held a very hot liquid. Watt's improvements to the steam engine were key to the changes that came with the Industrial Revolution. The governor islabeled D here. The throttle valve is the piece at bottom right.
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An engraving depicting a sectional view of a German still for purification of crude sulphur. Dated 19th century
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Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley
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Illustration showing a meteorologist photographing cloud formations at Kew Gardens, London. 1892
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Cannon of the 15th century, Illustration from the Book, "John Cassels Illustrated History of England, Volume II", text by William Howitt, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1858
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Engraving depicting a battery of twenty cells used to give therapeutic shocks. Dated 19th century
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Early idea of a quick firing cannon. From Valturio 'De re militari' 1482. Woodcut.
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An engraving depicting male and female catheters. Dated 19th century
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At the Ironman, vintage engraving. At the Ironman, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673624
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Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza as an astronomical observatory. Artist: Unknown
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Proportions of the human body after Leonardos studies, also called Vitruvian man. Male human body with limbs extended, superimposed on a grid and a circle. Engraving from Cesarinos 1521 edition of Vitruvius De architectural.
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Engraving depicting Luigi Galvani's outdoor experiment which investigates the behaviour of muscles stimulated by electricity. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher. Dated 18th century
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Tree of Saturn, vintage engraving. Tree of Saturn, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678979
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Illustration from a book depicting an Ionic Column divided and labelled Dated 1913
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Engraving depicting a penny-in-the-slot vending machine (left); Hero of Alexandria's holy water dispenser (right).
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Trephination: Using an elevator to remove piece of bone from the skull. Woodcut from Hans von Gersdorf Veldt Boeck van den Chirugia Scheel-Hans, Amsterdam 1593. Woodcut from 1517 Strasbourg edition
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Illustration depicting the collapsing drum for signalling from ship to shore on a dash and dot system. Dated 19th Century
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Alum crystals, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869.
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Roman machine throwing javelins by four, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Small air rifle for children. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886
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Engraving depicting a gyroscope, a device consisting of a wheel or disc mounted so that it can spin rapidly about an axis which is itself free to alter in direction. Dated 19th Century
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Sectional view of a road. Top: In unimproved condition. Bottom: After it has been macadamised, drained, and properly cambered. London, 1866
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alchemy allegories foir elements earth fire water ans air woodcut ""Chymisches Lustgaertlein"" von Daniel Stoltzius von Stoltzenberg Frankfurt 1624,
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Crystalline form of copper sulfate, vintage engraving. Crystalline form of copper sulfate, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678960
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Eudiometer, vintage engraving. Eudiometer, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674126
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Egyptian weaving, Egypt, weavers, craft, woman weaving, spinning, spindle, posture sitting, kneeling, standing, cotton, processing, construction of the loom, fixing in the floor, historical depiction 1886, Africa
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The shadow at various latitudes, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.
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An engraving depicting an egg whisk. Dated 19th century
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Sword of King Binnirar I, material bronze, sword, decorated ivory hilt, inscription, son of Budil, antiquity, historical illustration 1886
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Finding the angular distance between two edges of a wood using a cross-staff. From Robert Fludd 'Utriusque cosmi ... historia', Oppenheim, 1617-1619. Engraving
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An engraving depicting a method of opening a globe-stoppered mineral water bottle of the type invented by Mr Dan Rylands, Hope Glass Works, Barnsley. Dated 19th century
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Monocle and Eye (blue), from Jocular Ocular series (N221) issued by Kinney Bros. 1889 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "Jocular Oculars" series (N221), issued ca. 1889 to promote Kinney Tobacco Company.. Monocle and Eye (blue), from Jocular Ocular series (N221) issued by Kinney Bros.. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
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An engraving depicting the Richardson's swimming machine. Dated 19th century
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This 1870s illustration explains Parallel Motion as understood by James Watt, the Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer. James Watt (1736-1819) was said to have discovered the power of steam when he placed his hand in front of kettle that held a very hot liquid. Watt's improvements to the steam engine were key to the changes that came with the Industrial Revolution. The text reads: A B is half the beam, A being the main centre; B E, the main links, connecting the piston-rod, F, with the end of the beam; G D, the air-pump links, from the centre of which rthe air-pump-rod is suspended; C D moves about the fixed centre, C, while D E is movable about the centre D, itself moving in an arc, of which C is the centre the dotted lines show the position of the links and bars when the beam is at its highest position.
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Surgical instruments, Trochlea.
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Illustration showing the different temperature zones from North to South around the world. Circa 1880
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Engraving depicting a paper and bamboo sunshade for use by soldiers and military observers in hot climates, particularly the Sudan. Dated 19th century
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Nadeltelegraf mit einer einzigen Nadel, ein historischer Telegrafenapparat, welcher als gebrauchstaugliches Gerät 1837 von Charles Wheatstone und William Fothergill Cooke entwickelt / Single-needle telegraph, a historical telegraph apparatus developed as a serviceable device in 1837 by Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill Cooke, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.
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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.Tools, hammer and puns, used at the puncture manager.
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Two of Faraday's experiments in eletrolysis. Left, the electrolysis of water and, right, of muriatic acid* The-! se experiments laid the foundations of modern electrolytic analysis