Gear Collection

U.S.S. Massachusetts, steam hoisting gear, between 1896 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Massachusetts, steam hoisting gear, between 1896 and 1901

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

Kaiak with seal hunting equipment, Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Kaiak with seal hunting equipment, Nunivak, c1929

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: 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: Samuelson's machinery for crushing and grinding linseed... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Samuelson's machinery for crushing and grinding linseed, extracting the oil, and making oilcake, 1862

The Doctor 1919. Artist: Kurt Schwitters
The Doctor 1919. From a private collection

Police Club and Belt, 1939. Creator: Herman O. Stroh
Police Club and Belt, 1939

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

Nelson and His Gear, c1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Nelson and His Gear, 1913. c1911, (1913). Biologist Edward W Nelson (1883-1923). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Members of the Hawaiian royal family at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, 1824
Members of the Hawaiian royal family at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Westminster, London, 1824. Their Majesties King Rheo Rhio, Queen Kamehameha, Madame Poki of the Sandwich Islands, and suite

The Royal Strand Theatre, London, 1832. Artist: JW Gear
The Royal Strand Theatre, London, 1832. Interior view of the theatre, from the stage, as it appeared on the night of its opening, 26th January, 1832

Gunnery - Section Through Turret Showing Hydraulic Gear Inflexible Type, 1898. Artist: W & AK Johnston
Gunnery - Section Through Turret Showing Hydraulic Gear Inflexible Type, 1898. From Encyclopaedia Britannica - A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature (Ninth Edition)

Brick machines, 19th century. Bradley and Cravens brick machine and Claytons brick machine

Movement of solids, c1850. Illustrating mechanisms including gears, the escapement, governor, parallel motion, reciprocating to rotative motion, the eccentric, and the crank

Roller Bridge or inclined plane for transferring vessels from one level of waterway to another, 1737. Inclined planes were a cheaper alternative to locks

Archimedean Screws for raising water from one level to another, 1805
Archimedean Screws for raising water from one level to another. The thread could be either external (as in Fig. 3), or the more conventional internal spiral in Fig. 2

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