Cog Collection

View of fortified city, 1493. A cog, a type of sailing vessel, can be seen in the foreground. A watergate gives access to the city at bottom right

The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon: raising an engine from the wrecked train, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon: raising an engine from the wrecked train, 1876. On 21 January 1876, the Edinburgh-London Special Scotch Express was involved in a collision

Experiments made with Stevens's Bread-making Machine at Marylebone Workhouse, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Experiments made with Stevens's Bread-making Machine at Marylebone Workhouse, 1858. Mr. Stevens, the inventor of the A B C bread-making machine, is a practical baker

The New Houses of Parliament - the Great Clock at Westminster, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The New Houses of Parliament - the Great Clock at Westminster, 1857. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Freeman De la Motte, showing the mechanism which powers the chimes of Big Ben

Scaffolding for Raising the Quarter-Bells in the Clock Tower of the New Houses of Parliament, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Scaffolding for Raising the Quarter-Bells in the Clock Tower of the New Houses of Parliament, [London], 1857. St Stephen's Tower, (later renamed the Elizabeth Tower)

Manufacture of the Atlantic Submarine Cable, at Glass, Elliott, and Co.'s Works, East... 1857. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Atlantic Submarine Cable, at Glass, Elliott, and Co.'s Works, East Greenwich, [London], 1857. The firm has...undertaken to complete 1250 miles within a specified period...The

Engine room, Merchants Despatch Transportation Co. between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Engine room, Merchants Despatch Transportation Co. between 1900 and 1905

Machine Age, New York, 1937. Creator: Unknown
Machine Age, New York, 1937. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

Ruins of an early sugar mill, Orange City, Volusia Co. Florida, between 1936 and 1939. (Such machines were used on slave plantations to process sugar)

Poster from New York production of Power (Ritz Theatre), [1937]. Creator: Unknown
Poster from New York production of Power (Ritz Theatre), [1937]. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935

Near or far all trades need to be touched by a reflection of art: Trades: Sketch for the... 1887
Near or far all trades need to be touched by a reflection of art: Trades: Sketch for the drawing room in the school in rue Dombasle, 15th arrondissement of Paris, 1887

Brazilian Sugar-Mill, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Brazilian Sugar-Mill, 1854. View of...the interior of the Mill-house on a Brazilian Sugar Estate during the time of grinding, with a Mill of an improved construction

Cider-Making in Devonshire - Pound-House - the Mill and Press - Piling "The Mock", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Cider-Making in Devonshire - Pound-House - the Mill and Press - Piling "The Mock", 1850. View showing the...rollers

Robinson and Lee's Patent Bread-Making Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Robinson and Lee's Patent Bread-Making Machine, 1850. Diagram of...a Bread-Machine recently erected in Glasgow...One ton and a half of loaf bread, or a ton of biscuit

Reid's Patent Vertical Power-Loom (Interior Section), 1850. Creator: Unknown
Reid's Patent Vertical Power-Loom (Interior Section), 1850. The advantages aimed at by the...Loom are: enabling the weaver to attend with greater facility the weaving of four pieces at once

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850. One of Nathan Gough's four-horse vertical high-pressure engines is used for giving motion to the drilling

The Patent Impulsoria, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Patent Impulsoria, 1850. This ingenious means of applying animal power to the working of railways, so as to supersede the costly locomotive engine, has lately been invented...The new machine

The International Exhibition: Gruner's patent folding, stitching and pressing machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Gruner's patent folding, stitching and pressing machine, 1862. This compact little folding-machine

The International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. The use of this mill is to express the juice from the cane...an endless travelling-table...carries the canes up

The International Exhibition: blowing-engine in the Belgian Department... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: blowing-engine in the Belgian Department of the Western Annexe, 1862. Machine for...reducing iron ore to pig metal...As iron-furnaces have increased in size and number

The International Exhibition: Sandford and Mallory's flax-gin, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Sandford and Mallory's flax-gin, 1862. Although of a very unpretending appearance, the flax-gin of America may claim a value for industrial usefulness greater than

The International Exhibition - Whitworth's self-acting radial, drilling-machine, etc. 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition - Whitworth's self-acting radial, drilling-machine, etc. 1862. The collection of tools first met with on entering the annexe is that of Mr. Whitworth

The International Exhibition: Tuer and Hall's power-loom for weaving carpets... 1862. Creator: E Bourdelin
The International Exhibition: Tuer and Hall's power-loom for weaving carpets - from a photograph by the Stereoscopic Company, 1862

The International Exhibition: Messrs. Harrison and Son's power-loom for weaving flax, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Messrs. Harrison and Son's power-loom for weaving flax, 1862. This loom combines many important improvements

Gravure al Eau Forte, Machine aBalotter: pl. VI, 1771 / 1779. Creator: Unknown
Gravure a l Eau Forte, Machine a Balotter: pl. VI, 1771/1779

Perspective view of the Great Clock of the Royal Exchange, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Perspective view of the Great Clock of the Royal Exchange, 1844. The clock of our Exchange is now going, and what is of equal importance

The Time Ball, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Fig. 7, 1844. Creator: Unknown
The Time Ball, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Fig. 7, 1844. The hour of one o clock is announced by the descent of a large black ball, from the summit of a pole

Pipe tile machine, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Pipe tile machine, 1844. Exhibit at the Southampton meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England:a compact and simple invention for the manufacture of pipe or D tiles

Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc. 1866, 1865-66

Workers in the Metal Upon Which Our Civilization Depends, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume I, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Diagram of Hand-loom, c1917. From How It is Made, by Archibald Williams. [Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York]

Fishmongers Hall, Thames Street, London, c1827. Artist: William Henry Bartlett
Fishmongers Hall, Thames Street, London, c1827. View of the new Fishmongers Hall showing Thames Street and the construction of London Bridge

Three Seated Figures and Studies of Machinery, 1480-1481 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Three Seated Figures and Studies of Machinery, 1480-1481 (1945). The drawing is held by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Machine for Shaping Iron Rods for Making Cannon, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Machine for Shaping Iron Rods for Making Cannon, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Astronomy, 1832. From British Cyclopaedia. [William S. Orr, London, 1832]

A Large Wheel Which Is Resolved and Fires Four Crossbows in Succession, c1480, (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
A Large Wheel Which Is Resolved and Fires Four Crossbows in Succession and a Sketch for the Same, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Steam Engine, c1813. Artist: John Moffat
Steam Engine, c1813. From Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, by David Brewster. [William Blackwood, London, c1813]

Chaff-Cutter, c1813. Artist: Edmund Turrell
Chaff-Cutter, c1813. After John Farey Junior (1791-1851). From Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, by David Brewster. [William Blackwood, London, c1813]

Paper Making, c1813. Artist: John Moffat
Paper Making, c1813. From Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, by David Brewster. [William Blackwood, London, c1813]

Sugar Mill and Steam Engine, 1866

Indicator and Communicator, 1866

Crabtrees Card Setting Machine, 1866

Macindoes Self Acting Mule, 1866

Marking Machine, 1866

Aerated Bread Machine, 1866

Cog wheels (detail), late 15th or early 16th century (1954). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Cog wheels (detail), late 15th or early 16th century (1954). Codex Atlanticus, 372r-b. A print from Leonardo da Vinci by Ludwig H Heydenreich, Macmillan, London, 1954

Working parts of the clock at the Royal Exchange, London, 1866. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, by Charles Tomlinson

Cylinder printing machine, 1886. Machine for printing lengths of wallpaper. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering

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