Construction Industry Collection (page 7)

John Augustus Roebling, American civil engineer, 1874. Roebling (1806-1869) designed the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge as well as the Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Niagara Falls Bridges

Washington Augustus Roebling, American civil engineer, 1883. Roebling (1837-1926) built the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge which had been designed by his father John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869)

Construction of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York, USA, 1880. Top: laying cable - view of saddle and yoke at the top of one of the towers. Bottom: the bridge during construction

Brick Maker, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
Brick Maker, 1808. A woman with a handcart goes to get clay; a man dumps his clay into a stirring mechanism which mixes the clay before it is shaped into bricks

Ground plan of Prince Alberts model dwellings for the labouring classes, 1851. A number of these buildings were constructed

Prince Alberts model dwelling for the labouring classes, 1851. A number of these buildings were constructed. They were of hollow brick construction and housed four families, each occupying a flat

Ticket barrier at Philadelphia railway station, Pennsylvania, USA, 1890. Cast iron pillars and roof trusses were used to support the glass roof of the building. From The Railways of America

Interior of St Pancras Railway Station, London, 1865. Using an iron latticed arched roof, WH Barlow and RM Marsh were able to construct a clean arch 100 feet high with a span of 140 feet dispensing

Lime kilns, 1872. Burning limestone to produce lime for cement and mortar and for agricultural use

A Sub-Lime Character, early 19th century. A building labourer carrying a hod of mortar

Building a road, 15th century. Woodmen fell trees with axes while paviors lay the surface of an already cleared road. From the Chronicles of Hainaut

The building of Mexico City, 16th century. Native slaves building Mexico City on the ruins of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan under the direction of Spanish conquistadors

Slaves building a wall watched by a taskmaster, Roman. Fragment of a wall painting

The Prince of Wales visiting the building sites for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Paris, 1898. Artist: F Meaulle
The Prince of Wales visiting the building sites for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Paris, 1898. The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a worlds fair held in Paris, France

Brickfield, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
Brickfield, 1808. A horse-powered pug mill grinding clay, and a woman with a hack barrow for transporting green bricks to clamps to be dried out before firing

Building trade, c1845. A bricklayer working on a wooden scaffold (centre), a brickyard (top), mixing mortar (right), and a labourer carrying a load up a long ladder (left)

Lets Do It!, poster, Russian, 1944. Artist: I Serebriany
Lets Do It!, poster, Russian, 1944. A female worker lifting a pallet of bricks

Men standing in the cutting shield, Rotherhithe Tunnel, Stepney, London, August 1907. Front view of the shield with workmen standing in compartments where the shield partly emerged into Shaft 4

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