Sparks Collection

Tapping a Steel Furnace, c1930. Creator: Unknown
Tapping a Steel Furnace, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Casting a Monster Cylinder, at Messrs. Scott Russell and Co.'s Building-Yard, Millwall, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Casting a Monster Cylinder, at Messrs. Scott Russell and Co.'s Building-Yard, Millwall, 1854. Metalworking in London during the Crimean War....the casting of the last of the four largest

The Fourth Great Fire at San Francisco, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Fourth Great Fire at San Francisco, 1850. Fire in California, USA...the wind increased as rapidly as the flames, whirling the black masses of smoke, the lurid sheets of fire

Destruction by fire of the western wing of Queen's College, Cork, on Thursday week, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Destruction by fire of the western wing of Queen's College, Cork, on Thursday week, 1862. Fire-engines were soon on the spot; but the fire raged so furiously that there was no hope of saving

The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius: the Craters at Midnight, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius: the Craters at Midnight, 1862. The volcano...in all its terrible grandeur, from a sketch by Colonel Peard...a black column rose majestically

Court Ladies Playing with Fireworks, ca. 1740. Creator: Muhammad Afzal
Court Ladies Playing with Fireworks, ca. 1740. Attributed to Muhammad Afzal

Hippopotamus, from Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1890

Camp Fire, 1880. Creator: Winslow Homer
Camp Fire, 1880

The forging of Nothung, 1924. Artist: Arthur Rackham
The forging of Nothung, 1924. Illustration from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. Wotan told Mime that only someone without fear would be able to forge Nothung

Welding a dragline bucket, Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Dragline buckets are used in the excavation of raw materials from quarries in addition to being used in the dredging

Pouring a 23 ton steel casting, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1968. Artist: Michael Walters
Pouring a 23 ton steel casting, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1968

Grinding (sharpening), Everlast Garden tools, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1965. Artist
Grinding (sharpening), Everlast Garden tools, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1965

Casting a 1 in 14 rail crossing, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964

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