Machinery Collection (page 9)

The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The 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: Unknown
The 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: Unknown
The 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: Unknown
Cotton 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: Unknown
Manufacture 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: Unknown
Manufacture 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: Unknown
The 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: Unknown
Progress 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: Unknown
The 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: Unknown
The Eastern Annexe of the International Exhibition Building containing agricultural implements, [South Kensington, London]

Buryat mechanics making "burkhanov" - Buryat goods, 1895-1939. Creator: L Veniukov
Buryat 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: Unknown
Manufacture 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: Unknown
The 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 Ponting
One 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 Durer
Perspective 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

Love Conquered Fear, c1840. Creator: Auguste Hervieu
Love Conquered Fear, c1840. Ragged child workers in a Victorian textile factory. British writer Frances Trollope visited Manchester in 1832 to witness the condition of children employed in

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

The Ingenious Spinning Jenny Invented by James Hargreaves, c1925. James Hargreaves, (c1720-1778), English inventor. From Cassells Romance of Famous Lives, Volume 3 by Harold Wheeler

Love Conquered Fear, 1840. Michael Armstrong, adopted by a mill owner, embracing his brother Edward who is one of the ragged factory boys working amongst the spinning mules

Patent vertical printing machine, Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Applegath printing machine belonging to the The Illustrated London News. A print from The Illustrated London News, 31 May 1851

La Route Aux Cypres, 1890. Artist: Vincent van Gogh
La Route Aux Cypres, 1890. From Van Gogh Paintings, introduction by Graham Reynolds. [Lindsay Drummond, Ltd & Les Editions du Chene, London & Paris, 1947]

Whimsey, or engine drawing coal in the Staffordshire collieries, 1886. Machinery for extracting coal. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining

Chocolate mill, 1886. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, by Charles Tomlinson, Volume I, (Jamess Virtue, London, 1886)

Gold-blocking press, 1886. Machinery for bookbinding and printing. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, by Charles Tomlinson

Munitions Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, c1870s. Artist: Theodore R Davis
Munitions Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, c1870s. Machines speeded up production after the Civil War. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

Woman operating a power loom for weaving cotton, c1840. The model illustrated is that invented by Roberts (c1815-1820). Belting connecting to the drive shaft is shown at centre back of the picture

Workroom in the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, 1904. Supervised by the Tsarina and the Dowager Empress, dressings and gowns are being produced to be sent to Russians wounded in the Russo-Japanese War

Machine for Raising Dough at Messrs. Carr and Co.'s Works, Carlisle, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Machine for Raising Dough at Messrs. Carr and Co.'s Works, Carlisle, 1857. The process which has just been perfected by Dr

Manufacture of Bayonets, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of Bayonets, 1856. Ryder's Patent Forge. The present war having caused an unusual demand for weapons...The Honourable Board of Ordnance therefore gladly availed themselves of

The Seamstress, 1880. Creator: Christian Krohg
The Seamstress, 1880

Grandmother with her grandson, 1875. Creator: Kristian Zahrtmann
Grandmother with her grandson, 1875

An old farmer's wife looking out of a window, 1874. Creator: Carl Bloch
An old farmer's wife looking out of a window, 1874

A housewife at her loom, with her two children, 1859. Creator: Constantin Hansen
A housewife at her loom, with her two children, 1859

Massachusetts. Lynn. shoe factories, 1895?: woman operating sewing machine, (1895?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Massachusetts. Lynn. shoe factories, 1895?: woman operating sewing machine, (1895?)

Massachusetts. Lynn. shoe factories, 1895?: a lining stitcher (woman) at work, (1895?)

2 men operating map printing press at U.S. Geol. Survey, (1900?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
2 men operating map printing press at U.S. Geol. Survey, (1900?)

Wooden box industry - female workers posing with Mrs. Graham, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wooden box industry - female workers posing with Mrs. Graham, c1910

Shoe factories, Lynn, Mass.: 2 women working in shoe factory, (1895?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Shoe factories, Lynn, Mass.: 2 women working in shoe factory, (1895?)

Wooden Box Industry: young woman working at machine, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wooden Box Industry: young woman working at machine, c1910

Wooden Box Industry: women in work room of box factory, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wooden Box Industry: women in work room of box factory, c1910

Wooden box industry - Mrs. Graham inspecting log on machinery with two workmen standing by, c1910

Self-portrait of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston in her studio at...Washington, D.C. c1900
Self-portrait of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston in her studio at 1332 V Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. c1900. Half length view, seated at small table

Three young black men working in lumber mill at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. 1899 or 1900

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