Armaments Industry Collection (page 2)

Bottling the Big Shell, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Bottling the Big Shell, 1916

Ready for War, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Ready for War, 1916

Taking the Big Gun Away, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Taking the Big Gun Away, 1916

From the Tops of the Furnaces, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
From the Tops of the Furnaces, 1916

Bringing in the Gun, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Bringing in the Gun, 1916

Fitting Guns in Turrets, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Fitting Guns in Turrets, 1916

The Gun Pit, No. I, 1917. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The Gun Pit, No.I, 1917

In the Land of Brobdingnag, the Armour Plate Bending Press, 1917. Creator: Joseph Pennell
In the Land of Brobdingnag, the Armour Plate Bending Press, 1917

Gun Pit, No. II, 1917. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Gun Pit, No.II, 1917

Building the Great Turret, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Building the Great Turret, 1916

Munitions River, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Munitions River, 1916

Within the Furnaces, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Within the Furnaces, 1916

Making Armour-Plate, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Making Armour-Plate, 1916

The Gun Forge, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The Gun Forge, 1916

The Forges, 1917. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The Forges, 1917

The Gun-Testing Ground, 1917. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The Gun-Testing Ground, 1917

Forging Shells, The Slaves of the Wheel, 1917. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Forging Shells, The Slaves of the Wheel, 1917

The Urns, Casting Big Shells, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The Urns, Casting Big Shells, 1916

Planing Big Shells, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Planing Big Shells, 1916

The Shell Factory, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The Shell Factory, 1916

The New Gun-Pit, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The New Gun-Pit, 1916

Men of Progress, 1862. Creator: Christian Schussele
Men of Progress, 1862

Portrait of William Tranter, 1860-1890. Creator: Butler E Tranter
Portrait of William William Tranter, 1860-1890. William William Tranter (1816-1890) was a gunmaker and gun designer with a factory in Aston, Birmingham

Trade Card for Bissets Directory, Birmingham, 1800. Creator: Thomas Hancock
Trade Card for Bissets Directory, Birmingham, 1800

Alfred Krupp, printers sample for the Worlds Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1888

Grand Hotel, Calcutta, 1902. Creator: Unknown
Grand Hotel, Calcutta, 1902. Hotel in Calcutta, (now Kolkata), Bengal, India. One of the shops in the arcade is Lyon & Lyon, gun and rifle makers. Postcard

Shot Manufactory, Tooley Street, from London Bridge, Bermondsey, London, 1828

Maxim machine gun, c1895. The engineer Hiram Maxim developed the first fully automatic machine gun (1884) which he offered to the United States War and Navy departments

Boys of Bradfield College making shell parts, Berkshire, c1916 (1928). From The Wonder Book of Soldiers for Boys and Girls, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward. Lock & Co

Armament Section at Work, 1940. From Our Air Force published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. 1940

Cannon foundry, 1487 (1954). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Cannon foundry, 1487 (1954). Found in the collection of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Windsor. A print from Leonardo da Vinci by Ludwig H Heydenreich. (London, 1954)

Moulding explosive gum cartridges, Isleten, near Fluelen, Switzerland, 1893. A print from the Illustrated London News, 7th January 1893

Mark Firth, British industrialist and philanthropist, c1880. Firths (1819-1880) steelworks in Sheffield produced armaments

Views in the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, c1880. The boilerhouse, grindery, annealing furnaces, brasswork, forges. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I

In the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, c1880. The shot and shell foundry, the shot yard, bullet making, carriage department, turning room, and forging a breech coil

Packing cartridges into boxes at Isleten, near Fluelen, Switzerland, 1893. A print from the Illustrated London News, (7 January 1893)

Filling cartridges with dynamite powder at Isleten, near Fluelen, Switzerland, 1893. A print from the Illustrated London News, (7 January 1893)

Scene of the explosion at the Cartridge factory, Greenwich Marshes, 1872
Scene of the explosion at the cartridge factory, Greenwich Marshes, 1872. An engraving from the Illustrated London News, (27 January 1872)

Alfred Krupp, 19th century German metallurgist and industrialist, (1900). In 1826, aged only 14, Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) took over the steel-making factory founded by his father Friedrich

Women manufacturing shell casings in a Russian factory, World War II, 1943

Young girls assembling machine guns in a Russian factory, 1943

German state munition factory, World War I, 1917. A woman working at a 125 ton grooving press. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

The Krupp gun factory number 1, Essen, Germany, World War I, 1917. Krupp supplied the German armys heavy artillery pieces during the First World War. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

Steel production, Krupp factory, Essen, Germany, World War I, 1917. In 1917 and 1918, Krupp produced seven Paris Guns, huge artillery pieces designed to fire shells at Paris from over 80 miles away

Christian Friedrich Schonbein, German chemist, c1898. Schonbein (1799-1869) began his investigation of ozone in 1839. He worked on nitrocellulose and produced gunoctton for use in firearms in 1846

Filling shrapnel shells in a British munitions factory, World War I, 1914-1918

Bird s-eye view of Krupps works, Essen, Germany, 1876. In 1826, aged only 14, Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) took over the steel-making factory founded by his father Friedrich

Alfred Krupp, German industrialist and armaments manufacturer, 1886. In 1826, aged only 14, Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) took over the steel-making factory founded by his father Friedrich

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