Machine Collection (page 25)

Potter, 1828. Artist: Marlet et Cie
Potter, 1828. A lithograph from L Inde Francais, 1828. From the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Weighing of the Blocks of Stone, Egypt, 1880. Artist: R Brandamour
Weighing of the Blocks of Stone, Egypt, 1880. Published in L Egypt by George Moritz Ebers, 1880

Front cover of Le Pays de France, 12th August 1915

Two women at home, France, 1939. The woman in the foreground is reading a copy of Le Livre Jaune Francais, a book published by the French Foreign Ministry relating to diplomatic negotiations between

Bomb damage at a Renault factory, Sevres, Paris, 4 April 1943. The factory was bombed by aircraft of the US 8th Air Force

Machinery Hall, Crystal Palace Exhibition, London, 1851. Conceived by Prince Albert, the Great Exhibition was intended to showcase the Works of the Industry of all Nations

German state munition factory, World War I, 1917. A woman working at a 125 ton grooving press. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

The Krupp gun factory number 1, Essen, Germany, World War I, 1917. Krupp supplied the German armys heavy artillery pieces during the First World War. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

Steel production, Krupp factory, Essen, Germany, World War I, 1917. In 1917 and 1918, Krupp produced seven Paris Guns, huge artillery pieces designed to fire shells at Paris from over 80 miles away

Seamstresses of the National Union of Women, Frankfurt am Main, World War I, 1915. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

The Tailor, 1918. Artist: Boris Mikhajlovich Kustodiev
The Tailor, study for the decoration of the Ruzheinaya (Rifle) Square in Petrograd, 1918

Decor design for Mystery Bouffe, 1919. Artist: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Decor design for Mystery Bouffe, 1919

Steam ploughing tackle, c1860. Portable steam engine by Garrett & Sons of Leiston, Suffolk, being used with ploughing tackle to draw a plough, in right background, back and forth across a field

Luigi Palmieri, Italian geophysicist, 1893. Palmieri (1807-1896) was director of the Vesuvius Observatory which monitored the activity of the volcano. In 1855 he invented a seismograph

James Watts workshop at Heathfield Hall, Birmingham, 1886. It had not been disturbed since his death in 1819. Watt (1736-1819), Scottish engineer and inventor, was born at Greenock on the Clyde

Boring wooden pipes, and casting and drawing iron pipes, c1825. At top is a machine for boring wooden pipes. The rest of the machines are for casting a drawing out iron pipes

Portable threshing machine, c1910. Machines of this type were used in rickyards or fields, and powered by a portable steam engine

Chinese agriculture, 1825-1835. Top: pounding rice in a foot-operated pestle and mortar. Middle: Chinese seed drill. Bottom: Chinese plough. From Costume Antico et Moderno. (Rome, 1825-1835)

Making flower pots, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
Making flower pots, 1808. The potters wheel is turned by an assistant using crank, while a small child keeps the potter supplied with lumps of clay of the correct weight

Rail mounted coal cutting machine, 1864. This was powered by compressed air produced by a steam engine at the pithead

The Printers Workshop, 1568. Artist: Jost Amman
The Printers Workshop, 1568. In the background compositors are sitting at the type cases setting up the text. In the foreground a printed sheet is being picked up to be placed on the pile

First lockstitch sewing machine, invented by Elias Howe, c19th century
The first lockstitch sewing machine, patented by American inventor Elias Howe in 1846

Woman using sewing machine patented by Elias Howe [c1878]
Woman using sewing machine patented by Elias Howe. [c1878]. Howe, an American inventor (1819-1867), patented the first lock-stitch sewing machine in 1846. From Adams Illustrated Panorama of History

First lock-stitch sewing machine, [1915]. Constructed in 1845 by American inventor Elias Howe (1819-1867). From a cigarette card. (1915)

Hookes microscope with condenser for concentrating light, 1665. From left to right above are his barometer, refractometer for measuring refractive power of liquids, and lens-grinding machine

Typewriter patented by John Pratt in 1866 (1915)

George Atwoods machine for demonstrating the effect of gravity on falling bodies, c1780
George Atwoods machine for demonstrating and investigating the effect of gravity on falling bodies, c1780. Atwood (1746-1807), an English mathematician

The Fight for the Harvest : sorting of seeds in a Mordva collective farm, 1933. Russian postcard after a painting by Jeroushew

Renards tractor unit, showing towing attachment for trailers, French, 1904

Thomas Edisons improved form of JW Trowbridges electric dynamometer, 1879. Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor who registered over 1000 patents

Thomas Edisons generator for electric light at his home at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1879. Behind the doors is the 80 hp engine

Operator receiving a message in Morse code on an electric printing telegraph, 1887. In the box under the table are the wet cells (batteries) supplying electricity

Telegraph office, c1900. A man reads a message he has received (left). Inside the office an operator sends a message using a Morse transmitting key (right)

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph, 1887. He is tapping out the message with a key using the code developed by Samuel Morse and Alexander Bain

Morses first telegraph, 1837 (c1900). Artist: Sir John Gilbert
Morses first telegraph, 1837 (c1900). Invented by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), this was the first functional electric telegraph

Morse electric printing telegraph, c1882. Rear view of the instrument showing the roll of paper for recording messages and the transmitting key at C. D are wet cells (batteries) providing electricity

Barthelemy Thimonnier, 19th century French inventor, [1907]. Thimmonier (1793-1857) patented the first sewing machine to be put into practical use, in Paris in 1830

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

Thomas Saverys steam pump or the miners friend, 1702 (1726). Saverys steam powered pump was used for draining water out of mines. From Lexicon Technicum, by John Harris, 1726

Reconstruction of a medieval conception of the universe, 19th century?
Reconstruction of medieval conception of the universe, 19th century? A flat earth surrounded by the crystalline spheres. A man has broken through the outermost of these

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom, c1850. Woven silk portrait of French silk-weaver Jacquard (1752-1834), produced on a Jacquard loom

John Harrison, c1835. Artist: William Holl
John Harrison, c1835. Portrait of the English inventor and horologist wearing a wig. Harrison became famous for resolving one of the most problematic issues of his day - how to determine longitude

Garrett & Sons Double-Cylinder Steam Ploughing Engine and Tackle, c1862. Men lay out a system of ropes or cords connected to a steam engine

Production of woollen cloth, 1750. Textile workers raising pile and pressing the wool in a screw press

Two sugar mills, West Indies, 1764. A mule-powered mill with vertical rollers (top) and one with vertical rollers powered by an overshot waterwheel (bottom) West Indies

Stocking frame workshop, 1750. Women winding and reeling the yarn, and a man working the knitting frame. From The Universal Magazine, London, 1750

Women securing bristles in brushes using Woodburys machine, late 19th century. The machines, invented in America around 1870, are set up by the windows for maximum natural light

Women workers in a carpet factory, c1895. Electric lights with incandescent bulbs hang over each loom to supplement natural lighting and enable the working day to be extended

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