Manufacturing Collection (page 22)

Charcoal burning, 1540. Building a pyramid of wood (right) to be covered with bracken and earth, then slowly burned (left) to produce charcoal

Steel production: a forge with bellows to produce draught, 1556. In the foreground bars are being hammered with a mechanical hammer

Artists reconstruction of casting weapons in the Iron Age, 1889. In the left background metal is being heated in a furnace, while at the right molten metal is being poured into a mould

Cover of Genius Rewarded, or the History of the Singer Sewing Machine, 1880. American inventor and manufacturer Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-1875) patented his famous sewing machine in 1851

Casting cannon, 1751-1780. Drying clay patterns which would be used to produce a mould into which molten metal would be run. From Denis Diderots Encyclopedie. (Paris, 1751-1780)

The Mint, London, 1808-1811 Artist: Augustus Charles Pugin
The Mint, London, 1808-1811. Coins being produced with coining presses. From The Microcosm of London, published by Ackermann, London 1808-1811

Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Artist: Spy
Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Bessemer (1813-1898) was a prolific inventor, but is best known for discovering the Bessemer Process for manufacturing steel

Rice Mill, 1813. Blindfolded mules harnessed to a mill grinding rice into flour. From China: Its Costume, Arts and Manufactures by M Breton. (London, 1813)

Marshall Plan of US aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, c1948-c1959. The Krorhout Manufacturing Company, Amsterdam, a beneficiary of the scheme

Interior view, Krupp works, Essen, Ruhr, Germany, World War I, 1917. Krupp enjoyed a monopoly on arms manufacturing in Germany during World War I

The Tilt Forge, c1845-1866. Artist: Godfrey Sykes
The Tilt Forge, c1845-1866. Iron workers at a battery of mechanical tilt hammers

Industrial landscape, Wales, 19th century. Artist: Penry Williams
Industrial landscape, Wales, 19th century. An ironworks at night, the blast furnace in the centre

Nitroglycerin processing plant, explosives factory, Val Bormida, near Cengio, Italy, 1888
Nitroglycerin processing plant, explosives factory, Val Bormida, near Cengio, north-west Italy, 1888. Nitroglycerin was mixed with Kieselghur (a diatomaceous earth) to produce Dynamite

Women packing dynamite cartridges, 1888. Explosives factory at Val Bormida, near Cengio, north-west Italy. Nitroglycerin was mixed with Kieselghur (a diatomaceous earth) to produce Dynamite

Machine Room in a Steam Sewing Factory, 1854. This view is of Holloway, Crowe & Holloways clothing factory, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England

Wilson sewing machine, 1880. Belt-driven lock-stick model for industrial use showing samples of work that could be produced

South Durham Salt Works, 1884. Loading crystallised salt into railway wagons. Brine would be pumped up from the borehole, purified, then crystallised

Dice Makers Workshop, 16th century. Artist: Jost Amman
Dice Makers Workshop, 16th century

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