Engineer Collection (page 8)

Installation of trackwork in an ICI Plant, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist
Installation of trackwork in an ICI Plant, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963

The Seven Bridge transmission tunnel, 1980. Artist: Michael Walters
The Seven Bridge transmission tunnel, 1980. An engineer from the Central Electricity Generating Board makes checks on the Seven bridge transmission tunnel which carries services from the Aust side in

An engineer at work at the Edgar Allen Steel Foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. An engineer using a precision depth guage to quality check a giant magnet casting

An engineer working at Husband & Co, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1962. The engineer is assembling a giant worm screw drive for a radio telescope at Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall

Engineers working at Husband & Co, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1962. The engineers are assembling a giant worm screw drive for a radio telescope at Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall into its housing

Scene in the workshops of Globe & Simpson auto electricians, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, 1961. An apprentice checking the levels of a Lucas battery

A young apprentice at Globe & Simpson auto electricians workshop, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, 1961. An apprentice using a hydrometer to check the sulphuric acid concentration in a Lucas car battery

Scene in Globe & Simpsons auto electrical workshop, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1961. An Austin Cambridge having its headlights set with a Lucas beamsetter

Auto electrician changing a light bulb on a Morris Minor, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1961. Scene in the workshop of Globe & Simpson in Nottingham

Apprentice at work, Globe & Simpson auto electrical workshop, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1961. Sheffield-based Globe & Simpson ran an auto electrical engineeing

Training apprentices, Globe & Simpson auto electrical workshop, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1961. Two young apprentices are shown how to strip down a starter motor

Auto electricians at work at Globe & Simpson, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1961. In the background can be seen a Crypton electrical test bench machine

Profile cutting, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist: Michael Walters
Profile cutting, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. Two engineers check the results of a profile cutter at the Yorkshire Engine Company

The British engineer, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
The British engineer, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. The epitome of the British engineer from a bygone age. This photograph

Installing a cage at Hickleton Main pit, Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist
Installing a cage at Hickleton Main pit, Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, 1961. During the drive to improve the pits in the South Yorkshire area during the 1950s and 1960s

Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, 1880. Artist: Eugene Pirou
Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, 1880. Eiffels (1832-1923) most historic and best-known work is the Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris Exposition of 1889

Parry Thomas, 1937. John Godfrey Parry-Thomas (1884-1927), Welsh engineer and motor-racing. From Sir Malcolm Campbells Book of Famous Motorists, edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell

Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. - Selbstbildnis, 1934
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. 1934. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath

Marconi - Geb. 1874, 1934. Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874-1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission

Wilhelm von Rontgen 1845-1923, 1934. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923), German mechanical engineer and physicist, who produced

James Watt (1736-1819), c1800, (1912). Artist: Sir William Beechey
James Watt (1736-1819), c1800, (1912). James Watt (1736-1819) a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. Watt invented the Watt steam engine

Fulton Explains His Submarine to Napoleon, c1925. Artist: Arthur Percy Dixon
Fulton Explains His Submarine to Napoleon, c1925. Robert Fulton, (1765-1815), American engineer and inventor. From Cassells Romance of Famous Lives, Volume 1 by Harold Wheeler

Edison and Steinmetz Join Forces to Achieve Success, 1922, (c1925). Thomas Alva Edison, (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman

Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist, late 18th or early 19th century (1894). Artist: Pietro Antonio Leone Bettelini
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician and engineer, late 18th or early 19th century (1894)

Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer, c1880. Works owner Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt (1736-1819)

Agrippa Instructing His Pupils Mathematically, 1553, (1936). The frontespiece of the Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue by Camillo Agrippa, published in 1553

Anton Amundsen, 1893, (1897). Anton Amundsen (born in 1853) was a Norwegian explorer who took part to the three year expedition (1893-1896) aboard the Fram led by Fridtjof Nansen

Lars Pettersen, 1895, (1897). Lars Pettersen (born in 1860) was a Norwegian explorer who took part to the three year expedition (1893-1896) aboard the Fram led by Fridtjof Nansen

Bernard Nordahl, 1893, (1897). Bernard Nordahl (born in 1862) was a Norwegian explorer who took part to the three year expedition (1893-1896) aboard the Fram led by Fridtjof Nansen

General Jose de Urrutia, c1798 (1939). Artist: Francisco Goya
General Jose de Urrutia, c1798 (1939). Jose Ramon de Urrutia y de las Casas (1739-1803), Spanish captain general and military engineer

James Brindley, 18th century English civil engineer and canal builder, (1836). Artist: JT Wedgwood
James Brindley, 18th century English civil engineer and canal builder, (1836). Brindley (1716-1772) rests a hand on a theodolite

Galilei 1564-1642, 1934. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher and mathematician. From Die Groszen der Weltgelchichte

Professor Low propounds: The Quality of Perfection Defies Analysis, But It Is Significant That It Is Present In Those Cocktails Which Contain Booths Gin, c1935 (1935)

Sir William Thomson, Irish physicist and engineer, c1870s (1883). From William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries, Vol. III, 1852-1860, by Thomas Archer, F.R.H.S

Sadler over the Lighthouse, Dublin, 19th century. Artist: Robert Havell
Sadler over the Lighthouse, Dublin, 19th century. William Windham Sadler (1796-1824), balloonist and gas engineer. This picture shows sadler over the lighthouse in Dublin, on 24th July 1817

Hiram Stevens Maxim, (1840-1916). American-born British inventor and engineer, 1894-1907
Hiram Stevens Maxim, (1840-1916). American-born British inventor and engineer, Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun in 1884

Where the Springboks Crossed to Victory, 1941. The pontoon bridge over the Juba River, which was constructed bt South African engineers

The Drake Well, Pennsylvania, America, 1859. Drilled by Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819-1880) in 1859, it is the first commercial oil well in the United States

Franz Kossuth (1841-1914 in Budapest ), Hungarian engineer and politician, 1906
Franz Kossuth (1841-1914 in Budapest ), Hungarian engineer and politician. From Hignetts Butterfly Medium Cigarette - Modern Statesmen, 1906

George Stephenson, taken from a series of cigarette cards, 1935
George Stephenson (1781-1848), English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Taken from a series of cigarette cards entitled Celebrities of British History produced by Carreas Ltd, 1935

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian pioneer of wireless telegraphy, Signal Hall, Newfoundland, 1901 (1951). Marconi with the instruments with which he received the first transatlantic wireless signals on 12th

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857 (1956)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857, (1956). Brunel (1806-1859) standing in front of the launching chains of his steamship the Great Eastern

Second Battle of Fredericksburg, American Civil War, 1863 (1955). The Aftermath of Sedgwicks Assault on Maryes Heights, (May 3, 1863)

Engineers repairing a light railway, Hangard, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Engineers repairing a light railway, Hangard, France, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Engineers clearing a destroyed tank from a road, World War I, 1917-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Engineers clearing a destroyed tank from a road, World War I, 1917-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857 (1956). Artist: Robert Howlett
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857 (1956). Brunel (1806-1859) standing in front of the launching chains of his steamship the Great Eastern

Fernand Forest, French inventor, 1888. Forest (1851-1914) played an important role in the development of the internal combustion engine and the motor car

Francois Clement Sauvage, French engineer and politician, 1854. A mining and railway engineer, Sauvage (1814-1872) was elected to the French National Assembly in 1871

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