Vintage Engineering Apparatus

Engravings of historical scientific instruments and industrial machinery, featuring intricate designs and cross-sections, capturing the essence of 19th-century innovation.

Hydraulic elevator from 1887. Old illustration by Louis Poyet (1846-1913) from La Nature 1887
Hydraulic elevator from 1887. Old illustration by Louis Poyet (1846-1913) from La Nature 1887
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Centrifuge, 1882. Used to separate liquids from solids, or liquids from liquids of different density such as cream from milk. From 'Physics in Pictures' by Theodore Eckardt, London, 1882. Chromolithograph.
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Diagram depicting Ancient Greek instruments used by astrologists. Dated 17th Century
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Illustration depicting a valve mechanism of a hydrogen balloon. Dated 19th Century
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Water treatment at Asile d'Alienes (lunatic asylum) of Sainte-Anne, Paris. Date: 1868
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Der deutsche Raffinierherd war in der Metallurgie des 19. Jahrhunderts ein wichtiges Instrument zur Reinigung von Metallen wie Silber und Kupfer. Veröffentlichung der Meyers Enzyklopädie Der deutsche Raffinierherd war in der Metallurgie des 19. Jahrhunderts ein wichtiges Instrument zur Reinigung von Metallen wie Silber und Kupfer. Veröffentlichung der Meyers Enzyklopädie LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/SergeyxKohlx 23160507
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36-pounder long gun. Engraving. Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: HENRY WINKLES. Johan George Heck.
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A pencil drawing by Carl Pischinger depicting a spinning wheel, showing wheel, spindle, frame, and functional components, executed in 1868.
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The four major rivers of the earthly Paradise, Miniature Book of Wonders, Relationship of Mandeville, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.
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Printing house, historic illustration.
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Engraving depicting the production of sulphur. The burning pyrites against the wall and the leading fumes over a bucket of water on the surface of which the sulphur condensed (top). Building stacks and obtaining sulphur by burning pyrites (bottom).
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Sanitary public toilet with Turkish hole. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886
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Furnace used in the processing of iron. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
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Engraving of a cross section of mine workings showing shafts, water wheel, pillars of lode stone and the sump shaft. Date: 1849
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An engraving depicting Robert Houdin's automaton - chess player. 19th century
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Fig. XCIIX. Antlergon, duplex., Additional, Cochlea quadruplex., 1662, Coloniæ Agrippinæ, Publisher, Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici, Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Waterwheels, Water pumps, Troughs, Engravings
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Blowing of the glass, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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French engineer Gustave Eiffels design for rolling gates on the Panama Canal. Designed for the failed De Lesseps attempt of 1880-c1890, and not used. Engraving from La Nature, Paris, 1888.
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A Schroeder system cold storage warehouse. Old illustration by Louis Poyet (1846-1913) from La Nature 1887
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Set of apparatus for distillation and rectification of molasses alcohol. Engraving, 1876.
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Engraving depicting a magneto-electric generator by Holmes, shown powering a lighthouse light at the International Exhibition, London.
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Engraving depicting James Thomson's turbine operating vertically. Dated 19th century
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Father Kircher's Magic Lantern 1671. Early Lantern Slide Projector by by Athanasius Kircher. A camera obscura (Magic Lantern) projects the image of a burning man in Hell. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1883
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Small part of Babbage's mechanical calculating engine his Difference Engine an invention to which he dedicated his life. While limited by the technology of his time he did developed many of the the principles of modern computers including information storage.
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Cyclodrome in the late 19th century. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1897
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Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
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Illustration depicting a cell in a local jail. Dated 19th Century
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Snail shell water wheel. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1889
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Woodcut An engraving depicting the distillation of alcohol (aqua vitae); from Vannoccio Blringuccio De la Pirotechnia. Venice, 1540
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Woodcut engraving depicting the distillation of sulphur by heating it in spouted ceramic pots. Vapour would condense in a larger pot and liquid was collected in a wooden tub.
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African slave trade. Black slaves in the hold of the slave ship. From Amelia Opie 'The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar', London, 1826
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Engraving depicting Gaston Tissandier taking aerial photographs during a balloon trip from Paris to Rheims. Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) a French, chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Dated 19th century
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Series of illustrations showing a number of scenes concerned with the gold mines of Mount Morgan, in Merionethshire, North Wales, 1888. Date: 1888
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Robert Fulton, American inventor and engineer (1765-1815): His submarine Nautilus . 1)Travelling on surface: 2)Submerged. Fulton demonstrated the vessel on the Seine, May 1801. Boat powered manually. Engraving Paris 1901
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Production of Sulphur. From Diderot 'Encyclopedie' c1751.
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Print depicting Joseph Priestley's battery of Leyden jars. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) an English theologian, English Dissenters clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. Dated 19th century
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Production of Salpetre (Nitre, Potassium Nitrate, or KN03). Nitre beds, heaps of manure mixed with chalky earth. These were watered with urine and manure water. Calcium nitrate crystallised on the surface and was scraped off and taken to shed for processing. Saltpetre is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is still used in the preservation of some foods. In medicine it was used internally as a diuretic, but now is only used externally for a number of conditions, such as asthma. From 1683 English edition of 'Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt', Lazarus Ercker, (Prague, 1574). Copperplate engraving.
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Spain, Galicia, La Corua province, Ferrol. New model tripod machine, made in Southampton (England), installed in the Arsenal. The lathe of the machine is operated by a horizontal steam engine. Illustration by Cortellini S‡nchez. Engraving by Bernardo Rico. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881.
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Carpenter's New Specimen Book, 1836, Woodcuts
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Illustration showing Producing salt by evaporating sea water in salt pans. From Agricola 'De re metallica', Basel, 1556
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Engraving of the Lantern at Beachy Head lighthouse, Sussex, January 1884. The lighthouse was built between 1828 and 1831 on Belle Tout Cliff and equipped with a 'catoptric' lantern, which ran on colza oil. Here the lighthouse keeper can be seen cleaning some of the lantern reflectors. 1884
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Barry Dog, the Museum of Bern, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846.
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Engineering Wonders, 1927: Reflecting telescope, Astrophysical Observatory, British Columbia, Canada.
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THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, MODEL OF THE TRANSIT CIRCLE IN THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH
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Preparing vinegar, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869.
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medicine, treatment, steam baths, steam chest to sit in, wood engraving, from: Friedrich Eduard Bilz, New Naturopathic Treatment, Leipzig, Germany, 1902,
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Chlorine cell battery charging accumulators. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886
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The brain, depicted as a business centre: a series of offices including the headquarters (cerebrum) and camera operators (the eye muscles) etc. Date: 1920s
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Siphon of Albelda (Huesca), 1909. Interior view near a change in slope of the siphon reinforcement. Firstly, Don Mariano Luiña, author of the siphon.
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An engraving depicting a battery of 165 Plante cells used to supply light in the Hotel de Ville, Paris, France. Dated 19th century
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History of Arabia. Zamzam Well. Engraving. Panorama Universal. History of Arabia, 1851. Later colouration.
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Engraving depicting a double-acting steam engine by James Watt. Watt's steam governor is shown at D. Dated 19th century
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Illustration showing Man fascinated by the properties of the pendulum. From William Emerson The Principles of Mechanics, London, 1836
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Catapult. Engraving, 19th century.
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An engraving depicting the Thames Tunnel lit by gas flares. Dated 19th century
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Static electricity: Glass globe machine produces a charge of static electricity which is transmitted to the upper floor of a house by a chain. Upstairs someone, insulated either by being suspended by silken cords or by standing on a block of wax, is 'charged' and is attracting scraps of paper. At the door downstairs, another spark is being drawn from the finger of a 'charged' subject. From 'Recherches sur les Causes Particulaires des Phenomenes Electriques' by Abbe Nollet (Paris, 1753). Engraving.
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Russian Economics Exhibition' by Igor kravtsov, 1970.
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'Symbolic image of Music, the auditory senses and the macrocosm. From ''Utriusque cosmi ... Histoira'', Oppenheim 1617-1619, by Robert Fludd.'
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Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918
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The inspection of the balloon for the Arctic expedition led by Salomon August Andree (1854-1897), July 2, 1897, illustration from the magazine L'Illustration, year 55, no 2839, July 24, 1897.
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Series Industrial Plants, Meat Extract Factory, Fray-Bentos, Argentina, Evaporation Apparatus, digitally enhanced reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, South America