Engineer Collection (page 13)

Denis Papin
DENIS PAPIN French engineer, pioneer of steam engine technology. Date: 1647? - 1712

Franz Totleben - 3
FRANZ EDVARD IVANOVICH, count TOTLEBEN Russian military engineer, best known for his brilliant defence of Sebastopol in the Crimea war. Date: 1818 - 1884

Sully Prudhomme Photo
RENE-FRANCOIS-ARMAND SULLY- PRUDHOMME French engineer at the Creusot works who preferred poetry, photographed in 1905 when he was old and inform. Date: 1839 - 1907

Newport Bridge
Newport Transporter Bridge, Monmouthshire, Wales, is one of the worlds few surviving aerial ferries. It was completed in 1906 by French engineer Ferdinand Arnodin. Date: 1906

Nic. Thomas Bremontier
NICOLAS-THOMAS BREMONTIER French engineer who preserved the Atlantic coast of France by planting trees to stabilise the sand-dunes. Date: 1738 - 1809

Princess Elizabeth drives the royal train, Canada, 1951
Princess Elizabeth taking over the controls of the royal train, while on the way to Edmonton, ALberta, with the Duke of Edinburgh acting as Fireman, during the Royal tour of Canada

Captured German engineer park, Western Front, WW1
The entrance to a German engineer park, containing much material, captured by the Canadians during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sappers and miners working on a tunnel, WW1
Sappers and miners working on a tunnel during the First World War. Date: 1916

Lord Kitchener at Royal Engineer Cadets training centre
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) (centre) with other officers at a Royal Engineer Cadets training centre, during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1916

Lord Kitchener watching Royal Engineer Cadets
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) (far right) watching Royal Engineer Cadets constructing a wooden bridge on a training course during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1916

Royal Engineers working party in trucks, Arras, France, WW1
A Royal Engineers working party travelling in trucks on a light railway, passing through a ruined building at Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: March 1918

Victims of the R101 airship disaster
A holocaust of air experts: victims of the R101 disaster. The British R101 airship crashed near Beauvais in France, on its maiden voyage to Egypt and India, on 5th October 1930

Robert Van Hoeck
ROBERT VAN HOECK Flemish artist and military engineer from Antwerp, controller of fortifications for his majesty (Louis XIV ?) in Flanders. Date: 1622 - 1668

Statue of Sir Henry Royce, the Arboretum, Derby
Sir Frederick Henry Royce (1863-1933), monument to the English engineer and automobile manufacturer, in the Arboretum, a public park near the centre of Derby

Kw Siemens / Cassell 1893
KARL WILHELM SIEMENS later SIR CHARLES WILLIAM German-English electrical engineer and industrialist Date: 1823 - 1883

F Siemens / Cassell 1893
FRIEDRICH SIEMENS German-English engineer Date: 1826 - 1904

Kw Siemens / Cig Card
KARL WILHELM SIEMENS later SIR CHARLES WILLIAM German-English electrical engineer and industrialist Date: 1823 - 1883

James Nasmyth
JAMES NASMYTH Scottish engineer, inventor of the steam hammer - hence this caricature. Date: 1808 - 1890

George Bidder (Older)
GEORGE PARKER BIDDER Child prodigy who grew up to be a successful engineer. Date: 1806 - 1878

George Stephenson / Weds
GEORGE STEPHENSON Engineer and his wife riding home on their wedding day Date: 1781 - 1848

Grahame-White / Vf 1911
Claude Grahame-White, English aviator and engineer Date: 1879 - 1959

Holmes & Hatherley
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEERs THUMB Holmes pours the engineer Hatherley a brandy-and-water. Date: First published: 1892

Boiler Room, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
The boiler room at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The schools engineer and four young helpers stand alongside massive lumps of coal

Small country Automobile Garage
A pump attendant stands by the petrol pump at this local country garage

Man fixing an aeroplane

End of broad gauge, 1892
Brunels Great Western Railway pioneered the broad gauge from 1838 until 1892 when the final break with broad gauge took place. Here, the engineers are shown converting the tracks to dual gauge

Engineer installing dock pilings
An engineer installing dock pilings, to facilitate the loading and unloading of cargo

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), British mathematical physicist and engineer

Port Said, Egypt - Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 - 1894) - French developer/engineer on the project to construct the Suez Canal

Ismalia, Egypt - The Home of Ferdinand de Lesseps
The Home of Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, (1805 - 1894), French developer/engineer of the Suez Canal at Ismalia, Egypt"

Vive St Eloi (1 / 2)
VIVE SAINT-ELOI ! Saint Eloi (Eligius) is the patron of metalworkers (1/2)

Vive St Eloi (2 / 2)
VIVE SAINT-ELOI ! Saint Eloi (Eligius) is the patron of metalworkers (2/2)

Bridge construction WWI
Construction of a bridge at Armentieres in France during World War I

Engineers - Brno, Czech Republic
Employees of an automotive engineering works - Brno, Czech Republic

Machine for testing wagon springs
The Worlds First Railway Laboratory was set up at Crewe in 1864. One hundred years later, the Duke of Edinburgh opened new engineering research laboratories at Derby

Aberdyfi (Aberdovey), Wales - Motor Launch
The Motor Launch The Pride of the Midlands, bound for Aberdovey (now Aberdyfi). The three portraits above the photograph of the boat are of the Skipper, the Mate and the ships Engineer

Railway Line Construction - laying ballast
Ballast is fed down a long conveyor belt into the laying machine, which moves slowly along the railway line under construction under the watchful eye of an engineer. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Testing a Device
An engineer tests a small hydraulic device. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Testing Train Wheels
A railway engineer uses an electronic device to test the solidity and structural integrity of a large steam train wheel. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A technician doing miniature work
A technician uses an unidentified instrument, incorporating a microscope and an electomagnetic circuit to work on very tiny electronic components. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A Worker at an Exchange
A worker adjusts the wiring connections at a telecommunications exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Oiling a Locomotive Wheel and Piston
A railway engineer oils the end of a piston on an immense steam train wheel. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Turning a Cam shaft
An engineer turns a cam shaft on a large piece of complex mechanical and elctronic machinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Invention - Carrons Cone
Mr. Carron, an engineer from Grenoble, France, invented a contraption that allowed humans to experience the sensation of a free fall of 300m

Aerial torpedoes designed by an Australian engineer, Mr A Dunbar Wigram. They were expected to revolutionise the methods of modern warfare, by speeding over land and sea with a deadly aim

Assembly of a Multi-cogged Machine
An engineer fits a cog to a piece of geared machinery, possibly an engine or heavy duty gearbox. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Lowering a large railway shaft
A large central rotational shaft is lowered into position by a team of railway engineers. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Assembling the wiring for a complex machine
An engineer inserts a thin wire into a section of the assemblage for a Kimball machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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