Hydraulics Collection

New Hydraulic Lift at the Victoria Docks, 1858. Creator: Walmsley
New Hydraulic Lift at the Victoria Docks, [London], 1858. The new graving-docks in connection with the Victoria Docks, the construction of which was commenced about two years back

Filling the Napoleon Dock, Cherbourg, 1858. Creator: Smyth
Filling the Napoleon Dock, Cherbourg, 1858. Inauguration and...opening of the Great Basin, or Napoleon Dock, of the military port...in the presence of the Emperor

Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard: stern view of the ship, 1876. Creator: J. R. W
Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard: stern view of the ship, 1876. Warship launched using electricity. Hammers and battering-rams were applied to the foremost blocks

View of the great and the Pavillon de Manse in Chantilly, 1700-1799. Creator: Anon
View of the great lock and the Pavillon de Manse in Chantilly, 1700-1799. Vue d'Optique nouvelle, represantant la grande Ecluse et le Pavillon de Manse, dans le Comte du meme non [sic]'

Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust with putti, 1806. Creator: Bartholomeus Ziesenis
Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust with putti, 1806. A bust with putti, on a column

Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust, 1806. Creator: Bartholomeus Ziesenis
Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust, 1806. A bust with grieving putto, on a column

Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust in a niche with Fama, 1806. Creator: Bartholomeus Ziesenis
Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust in a niche with Fama, 1806. Bust on a pedestal, crowned with a laurel wreath by Fama; in a niche on a column

Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust in a niche, 1806. Creator: Bartholomeus Ziesenis
Design for a monument for C. Brunings: a bust in a niche, 1806

Hydraulic Excavation, Miraflores - Monitors in Oberation [sic], December 21, 1910. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Hydraulic Excavation, Miraflores - Monitors in Operation, December 21, 1910. Locks on the Panama Canal

Bureau of Mines, low temperature laboratories, between 1905 and 1945. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Bureau of Mines, low temperature laboratories, between 1905 and 1945. The United States Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary US government agency conducting scientific research

The Reinforcements for Canada: shipping horses on board the Calcutta at Woolwich by the... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Reinforcements for Canada: shipping horses on board the Calcutta at Woolwich by the hydraulic crane, 1862. Although there is now every reason to hope - if not, indeed

A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Hydraulic Gold Mining, Near Dutch Flats, California, C. P. R. R. 1868 / 69
Hydraulic Gold Mining, Near Dutch Flats, California, C. P. R. R. 1868/69. Albumen print, pl. xxx from the album " Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery" (1870)

The Avenue of Fountains, probably 1653. Creator: Stefano della Bella
The Avenue of Fountains, probably 1653

Water-Meter, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Water-Meter, 19th century. Diagrams of water meters: elevation, vertical section and horizontal section of Frosts piston water-meter; Siemens large water-meter; Siemens turbine water-meter

Men on the Hydraulic Lever Platform of the Woolwich Ferry, London, 1896. Ferry employees on the north pontoon of the ferry, with levers in the foreground

The well of the Roux Combaluzier elevator, Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889. When it opened for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, the Eiffel Tower had four elevators

The Marly Machine, 18th century. Louis XIV of France had this machine constructed on the banks of the Seine to pump water from the river to his chateaux at Versailles and Marly

Descartes idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692. French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed nerves were hollow, provided with valves

Equilibrium of Liquids, c1850. Hydrostatics and its applications, including a siphon (17), bellows (paradoxical instrument) (8), Bramahs hydraulic press (19), an intermittent spring

Leon Edouxs hydraulic passenger lift (elevator), 1887

Leon Edouxs elevators (lifts) at the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889
Elevators (lifts) by Leon Edoux for carrying passengers to the second and third levels of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889

Illustration showing the working spaces of a gas works, 1828: l: Retort House. 2: Tar cistern. 3: Condenser. 5, 6: Gasholder. 7: Office. 8: Workshops

Stanza de Venti nel Teatro di Belvedere di Frascati... 1691 or after
Stanza de Venti nel Teatro di Belvedere di Frascati con la Famosa Fontana del Monte Parnaso con Apolline et le Mvse che Svonano con Instrumenti Hidraulici a Forza d acqva

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