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The International Exhibition: Burgess and Key's grain-mower, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Burgess and Key's grain-mower, 1862. Although [Messrs. Burgess and Key's] magnificent display of medals, earned on many hard-fought fields
The International Exhibition: Cranston's Wood's grass-mowing machine, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Cranston's Wood's grass-mowing machine, 1862. It will be observed that the machine runs on two wheels
The International Exhibition: Siebes patent ice-making machine... 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Siebes patent ice-making machine, from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862
The International Exhibition: Ward's night-signal telegraph, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Ward's night-signal telegraph, 1862....an ingenious system of marine telegraph, consisting of flags for day
The International Exhibition: Austrian locomotives - the Duplex engine, 1862. Creator: MallettThe International Exhibition: Austrian locomotives - the Duplex engine, 1862. This locomotive is the first application of a doubled system of cylinders, pistons
The International Exhibition: sugar-refining apparatus of Messrs. Caile and Co. of Paris, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: sugar-refining apparatus of Messrs. Caile and Co. of Paris, 1862. European machine processing sugar cane from the colonies
The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-composing machine, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-composing machine, 1862. The compositor is in shape a right-angled triangle, placed horizontally
The International Exhibition: marine engines of the Mediterranean Forging Company... 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: marine engines of the Mediterranean Forging Company - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company
The International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. The use of this mill is to express the juice from the cane...an endless travelling-table...carries the canes up
The International Exhibition: locomotive tank-engine, by Manning, Wardle and Co... 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: locomotive tank-engine, by Manning, Wardle and Co. of Leeds, 1862. Engine designed...for the mineral traffic at ironworks, collieries, &c
The Flood in the Fens: making the cofferdam, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe Flood in the Fens: making the cofferdam, 1862. The hopes, mingled largely with fears, of the Marshland farmers are centred upon the gigantic cofferdam which Mr
The International Exhibition: fire-engine presented to Mr. Hodges by...inhabitants of Lambeth, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: fire-engine presented to Mr. Hodges by the inhabitants of Lambeth, 1862. Mr. Hodges is the head of a large and old-established distillery, situated in Pratt-street
The International Exhibition: Merryweather and Son's patent steam fire-engine, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Merryweather and Son's patent steam fire-engine, 1862. This powerful and well-finished steam fire-engine
Haying, near rest time [Russian Empire], 1909. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-GorskyHaying, near rest time [Russian Empire], 1909. Farm workers standing near their equipment, taking a short break from hay-making to pose for their photograph
The International Exhibition: blast-engines by the Lilleshall Company, Shiffnal, Shropshire... 1862 Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: blast-engines by the Lilleshall Company, Shiffnal, Shropshire - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862
The War in America: refugees from southern cities on the Mississippi, from a sketch by our... 1862. Creator: UnknownThe War in America: refugees from southern cities on the Mississippi, from a sketch by our special artist, 1862. Our special Artist and Correspondent...writes as follows
The International Exhibition: blowing-engine in the Belgian Department... 1862. Creator: UnknownThe 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: Sandford and Mallory's flax-gin, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Sandford and Mallory's flax-gin, 1862. Although of a very unpretending appearance, the flax-gin of America may claim a value for industrial usefulness greater than
The International Exhibition: Fowler's patent engine and windlass for steam-ploughing, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Fowler's patent engine and windlass for steam-ploughing, 1862. Steam engine to power agricultural machinery. From "Illustrated London News", 1862
The International Exhibition: Fowler's patent four-furrow steam-plough, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Fowler's patent four-furrow steam-plough, 1862. The first aim was to show the superiority of steam to horse power in the inversion and cultivation of the soil
Paper-making and cutting machine by Bryan, Donkin and Co. in the International Exhibition, 1862. Creator: UnknownPaper-making and cutting machine by Bryan, Donkin and Co. in the International Exhibition, 1862. Side elevation of a machine...intended to manufacture an endless sheet of paper of any width under
The International Exhibition - Whitworth's self-acting radial, drilling-machine, etc. 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition - Whitworth's self-acting radial, drilling-machine, etc. 1862. The collection of tools first met with on entering the annexe is that of Mr. Whitworth
Shilling Day at the International Exhibition, 1862. Creator: Mason JacksonShilling Day at the International Exhibition, 1862. The International Exhibition of 1862 was a world's fair held in South Kensington, London
The International Exhibition: Ransome and Sims agricultural machinery, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Ransome and Sims agricultural machinery - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862
The International Exhibition: Tuer and Hall's power-loom for weaving carpets... 1862. Creator: E BourdelinThe International Exhibition: Tuer and Hall's power-loom for weaving carpets - from a photograph by the Stereoscopic Company, 1862
The International Exhibition: Besley's type-casting machine... 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Besley's type-casting machine - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862. Machine...exhibited by Messrs
The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Fig. 3 the Lap-doubler; By this machine the slivers from the breaker carding-engine are formed into a
The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Fig. 6 the Power-loom; Fig. 5. the Roving-machine. From "Illustrated London News", 1862
The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Fig. 1 the Macarthy Gin; Fig. 4
Cotton manufacture: Platt's self-acting mule, or cottonspinning machine, 1862. Creator: UnknownCotton manufacture: Platt's self-acting mule, or cottonspinning machine, 1862. Processing cotton grown in India. These machines are used for the purpose of converting the rovings...into what is
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. Creator: UnknownManufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. The gun, being now completely built up, is carried to a lathe for the purpose of being finish-turned
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: UnknownManufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. This is the upper floor of a two-storied building upwards of 200ft. in length and 60ft
The International Exhibition: Gwynne's Centrifugal Pump, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Gwynne's Centrifugal Pump, 1862.... the patented pump of Messrs. Gwynne...is a large and important affair...the cascade produced being a veritable waterfall...This
Progress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862. Creator: UnknownProgress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862. The International Exhibition of 1862 was a world's fair held from 1 May to 1 November 1862 in South
The International Exhibition: Samuelson's machinery for crushing and grinding linseed... 1862. Creator: UnknownThe International Exhibition: Samuelson's machinery for crushing and grinding linseed, extracting the oil, and making oilcake, 1862
The Eastern Annexe of the International Exhibition Building containing agricultural implements, 1862 Creator: UnknownThe Eastern Annexe of the International Exhibition Building containing agricultural implements, [South Kensington, London]
Buryat mechanics making "burkhanov" - Buryat goods, 1895-1939. Creator: L VeniukovBuryat mechanics making "burkhanov" - Buryat goods, 1895-1939. This collection includes more than two hundred photographs taken during scientific expeditions into the most remote wilderness
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: UnknownManufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field
The Vigra Gold Mines, North Wales: the Crushing Mill, 1862. Creator: UnknownThe Vigra Gold Mines, North Wales: the Crushing Mill, 1862. The Vigra gold mines are situated in a most picturesque and mountainous range in the parish of Llanabar
One of the Motor Sledges, 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert PontingOne of the Motor Sledges, 1911, (1913). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) left London on 1 June 1910 bound for the South Pole
Overview of the bar mill at the Brightside Foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. View showing the capstan in the foreground
Welsh women with a spinning wheel, 1912. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. II. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1912]
Perspective machine, 1525, (1936). Artist: Albrecht DurerPerspective machine, 1525, (1936). Draughsman making a perspective drawing of a woman. A print from Durer, Und Seine Zeit, by Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Grosse Phaidon Ausgabe, 1936
Reconstruction of a clepsydra (water clock), invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, c270 BC (1857). Ctesibius (fl270 BC) was an inventor
Group in the Hut in the Summer: Joyce at the Sewing Machine, 1908, (1909). Royal Naval seaman Ernest Joyce was in charge of dogs and sledges during the expedition
How The Early Spinning Jenny Worked, c1934. Illustration showing the machine for spinning cotton, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves. The accompanying text explains the mechanism
Checking print, the White Rose Press, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1968. A printworker checking the print from a Heidelberg press