Cylinder Collection

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Daytona Beach, Florida, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
Daytona Beach, Florida

Revolving Pistol, c. 1936. Creator: Erwin Schwabe
Revolving Pistol, c. 1936

Curtiss V-4, V-12 Engine, Circa 1915. Creator: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Toward the end of 1915, Curtiss conducted a design study for a large aircraft engine of 224 kW (300 hp) or more. The objective was a power plant for large seaplanes

Roberts 4X, In-line 4 Engine, 1911. Creator: Roberts Motor Company
The Model 4X engine was built by the Roberts Motor Company of Sandusky, Ohio. An important design objective was light weight

Packard 2A-1500, Inverted V-12 Engine, Circa 1925. Creator: Packard Motor Car Company
In 1923, the Packard Motor Car Company began development of a new series of 12-cylinder aircraft engines that would more fully meet the requirements of the Army and Navy

Curtiss Challenger R-600, 2-Row, Radial 6 Engine, Circa 1928
The Challenger engine, which followed the water cooled Curtiss V-8 OX-5 engine that powered the World War I JN-4 " Jenny" trainer aircraft, was designed as a lower-cost

Bead, cylindrical, a little bent, 1st century. Creator: Unknown
Bead, cylindrical, a little bent, 1st century

Section By Section Mounts The Huge Steel Framework of the Hookers Cylinder, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

The Foundry at Swindon Works, c1917
The Foundry at Swindon Works. On the right is seen a cyclinder casting suspended by a travelling crane, c1917. From How It is Made, by Archibald Williams

Blackfriars Bridge, London, 1863. Artist: Mason Jackson
View of construction work taking place at Blackfriars Bridge for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, 1863; showing the sinking of a cylinder for one of the stone piers

Aerated Bread Machine, 1866

Napier, six cylinder motor carriages, 1917. A print from a supplement of The Connoisseur, December 1917

Thomas Alva Edisons kinetographic theatre, c1892. This combined the recording of sound and vision. From a cigarette card published 1915

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878. In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. Instrument in recording mode

Emile Berliners Gramophone, c1888. Top: Recording stylus and mouthpiece. Bottom: Playing a disc

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c1880. Vibrations produced in cone traced on lamp blacked cylinder

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c. 1906
Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c.1906. Plaster of Paris barrel with brass tube at a with hogs bristle attached to trace vibrations produced in AB on lampblacked cylinder C

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, 1872. Tuning fork vibrated by bow or iron rod, and vibration traced on cylinder coated with lampblack

Advertisement for Edison phonograph cylinder recordings, 1900. From Scientific American. (New York, 1900). Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Neo-Assyrian cylinder-seal impression showing mythical beings making offerings before a sacred tree, from the British Museums collection

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