Construction Collection (page 47)

Construction Photo
Building the Central Line, from London to the North of England

Carl Benz with Car
Carl Friedrich Benz, German engineer and pioneer in the construction of motor vehicles, with his original motor car in Munich in 1925

Quebec Viaduct
A viaduct at Quebec collapses during construction - this is the scene at the moment it starts to break up. Date: 1907

French Panorama Built
Construction work on a panorama of the Champs-Elysees

New York Reservoir
South Gate House, New Reservoir, during construction showing the pipes which will carry water to the people of New York

Reading Room Brit Museum
Construction of the great Reading Room of the British Museum, the forerunner of the British Library

French Builders
French builders at work on a stone-clad brick-built house, using some rudimentary wooden scaffolding

Samuel Cody
Cody sets the worlds cross- country flying record and explains to the Empress Eugenie (of France) about the construction of his aeroplane

Making Escalators 1930S
The construction of the huge escalators leading out of Tottenham Court Road underground (tube) station, central London

John Milton Hay
JOHN MILTON HAY American diplomat and writer; private secretary to Abraham Lincoln (1861-65). Negotiated Panama Canal construction

Pneumatic Drill
A man with curly dark hair using a pneumatic drill to dig up an old pavement

Union Pacific Track Laid
Laying track for the Union Pacific as it extends towards the western territories

Rail Construction German
Rail construction : assembling a Maffei-type locomotive

Babel / Calmet
The construction of the Tower of Babel

Building Stonehenge
The construction of Stonehenge - a team of workers haul one of the great stones

Building a Temple / Rome
CLASSICAL ROME The construction of a temple on the Aventine Hill, Rome

Metro Construction 1907
The great central caisson for the station at the Place Saint-Michel

Boulton & Watts Engine
Steam engines under construction at the factory of BOULTON & WATT at Soho, near Birmingham

Construction of a prehistoric stone circle

Lesseps and Engineers
Ferdinand de Lesseps with his team of engineers during the early days of the French project, which collapses for financial and other reasons

Building from Wood

Building from Stone

Transcontinental Link
First transcontinental rail link completed at Promontory Point, Utah

St Pancras Station Construction
Midland Railway works at Saint Pancras temporary bridge over the Old St Pancras road

Building Blackfriars Station, City of London
The construction of Blackfriars Station, looking towards Saint Pauls Cathedral in the City of London

Building St Pancras Station, Central London
Construction of the new Midland Railway terminus, St Pancras Station, viewed from the Euston Road as the huge canopy takes shape

Carl Friedrich Benz
CARL FRIEDRICH BENZ German engineer and pioneer in the construction of motor vehicles

Solomon Builds Temple
He supervises the construction of his temple

Emile Pereire
EMILE PEREIRE French financier, notably involved in railway construction

Crystal Palace Construct
Building in progress in Hyde Park

Fireworks 1747 on Water
Construction for a firework display on water - rockets and the like will be emitted from various parts of the edifice

Steamship dreadnought
Dreadnough, the Royal Navy battleship which introduced a new era of construction : her all big gun design made all earlier battleships obsolete. She fought in WW1, scrapped 1923

Boy W / Meccano Train
A lucky boy constructing his very own meccano train

Meccano Catalogue 1956
Catalogue for Meccano, the best of all construction toys

Cambridge Uni. Library
Putting the last rivets into the framework of the great tower - the new Cambridge University Library. Sir Giles Scott designed this 17 storey tower which cost 500, 000."

Construction / Hoover Dam
A Caterpillar engaged in excavating the approach cut to one of the diversion tunnels on the Hoover Dam, which was completed in 1935

New Hat Modelled in Shop
An elegant woman wearing a new creation poses next to a construction used to display hats in front of the shop window

Tower Bridge / Constructed
during construction

Thames / Embankment 1864
EMBANKMENT construction work, looking down the river from Westminster Bridge

Battle River Bridge
Construction of the Battle River Viaduct of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Lions Stop Rail Work
LIONS AND LINES : During the construction of the Uganda Railway, lions attack the camps to such an extent that at one time work has to be abandoned

Steam Shovel Canada
Using a steam shovel to clear away heavy debris while constructing a railway

Rail Surveying Canada
Surveying for a new railway line through the Canadian Rockies

Climbing the Pyramids
Egyptian men stand on the lower levels of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, ready to assist adventurous tourists, keen to scale the mighty structure

Suez Construction 1
Dredging a partially completed section of the canal, during the early stages of construction

Blasting at Emperador
The American operation : blasting rock at the Emperador cutting

The Culebra Cutting
The American operation : this scene at the Culebra cutting gives some idea of the vast quantity of rock and soil which has to be removed

French Workers Refusal
French workers, hearing of the dreadful working conditions on the Canal, refuse to leave the ship that has brought them to Panama : the Colon police force them to disembark

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