Machinery Collection (page 14)

Street next to one of the Norias of Hama, Syria
Man walking on a street in Hama, a city in west Syria. On the left one of the Norias of Hama along the Orontes River can be seen

New rolling machine for making horse shoe nails, patented by Messrs. Huggett. The manufacture of horseshoe nails by machinery, instead of forging them by hand

Industrial Revolution. London. Interior of an English factory. Late 18th century. Nineteenth-century

Section of an underground mine. Model of a team in the second half of the nineteenth century. Scale 1:25. Manufactured in 1906. By R. Brown. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology)

The double catapult. Designed by Leonardo da Vinci. 15th cen
Renaissance. Military Engineering. Drawn in the Atlantic Codex (folio 152 1485-1490) of Leonardo Da Vinci. The double catapult, with bucket and sling. Model

Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Mechanical loom. 15th century
Renaissance. Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Weaving machines. Mechanical loom. 15th century. Model. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Workers strike in Jumet (Belgium) on 26 March 1886. Strikers destroying an smelter in the H. Bandoux glass factory. Engraving

W Barratt & Co Ltd factory, Northampton, UK
W Barratt & Co Ltd factory, making department, Northampton, UK. mid-20th century

Propellers for Britains Warplanes: Machining the Blades - The Edge-milling process, in which upper and lower fixed rotary cutters mill the leading

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

The Morse Cotton Baling Press. Cotton Hydraulic Press, New Morse system. Installed in New York. 1881. Xylography

Boeing 377 MGT mini Guppy N111AS Aero Spacelines Santa Barba
The Mini Guppy Turbine was originally planned for the general commercial market such as hauling boats and heavy machinery

Postcard advertisement, Transelektro, Budapest, Hungary
Postcard advertisement for Transelektro, electrical manufacturers, Budapest, Hungary. Date: circa 1960s

Firefighters in training with resuscitation stretcher
Firefighters in training, rocking a resuscitation stretcher

Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath Robinson
The inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger

The Screw Em Out golf hole cleaner by Heath Robinson
A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the Screw-Em-Out golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course

Helmut Schmidts random number generator, used in psychokinetic tests at the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Date: 1960s-1970s

The Gentle Art of Excavating - Removing top soil
A new type of shovel removing the top soil from a bluff in the Cotswold Hills. A typically elaborate contraption by the gadget king

WW1 Machinery in a lead factory - shrapnel production
An array of machinery in a factory manufacturing white lead, used to make artillery shrapnel during WW1 Date: circa 1915

Cross-section of a U-boat engine room Date: circa 1940s

Textile machine. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Instituto Geol󧩣 o y Minero de Espa񡮠

Jacquard Loom 1804
JACQUARD LOOM First invented 1804 by J M Jacquard (1752-1834): this is probably a somewhat later modification. Date: 1804 and later

NFS (Salvage Corps) workers at a fire, WW2
Salvage workers from Cannon Street fire station sub-station A2Z.2X (Watling Street) undertaking salvage work at a warehouse fire

Excavating machine for digging trenches, France, WW1
An excavating machine used for digging trenches, at Mericourt in the Somme area of northern France, during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1916

Nasmyth hammer at steel works, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Male workers are dwarfed by the massive Nasmyth hammer at the Atlas Steel Works, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Date: circa 1902

Heath Robinson and his pea-splitting machine
Photograph of William Heath Robinson (1872 - 1944), pictured with his own model of a pea-splitting machine. A well-loved artist, illustrator and cartoonist

Tarkwa, Ghana - Akoon Gold Mill
Akoon Gold Mill, Tarkwa - a town in the southwest of Ghana. Date: circa 1910s

Two boys playing in old washing machine
Two young lads fooling about with (and inside!) an old washing machine. Perhaps they were harbouring dreams of a career in plumbing at this stage?!

Machinery for working gates, Gatun locks, Panama Canal

Bursa - Interior of the silk textile works - Turkey
The interior of the silk textile works of Bay Freres, Bursa, Turkey. The textile manufacturers of Bursa were responsible for making the silk velvet covering for the Ka aba in Mecca

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies agricultural machinery
An advert for Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Ltd(Orwell Works, Ipswich) portable traction engines and steam powered thrashing machines

Cetus Star Map
Cetus (sea monster) and chemical factory and electrical machinery constellation

The Illustrated London News steam printing machines
Engraving of the steam printing machines used by the weekly periodical, The Illustrated London News. There were two separate machines; one for printing one side of the paper

Elderly farmhand at harvest time
Elderly farmhand (80 years old) at harvest time, with chaff and straw blowing into the air. Date: circa 1960s

Advertisement, Pantex Garment Press
Advertisement for the Pantex Garment Press - Light as a Feather to Operate - made by James Armstrong & Co Ltd, London SW1. 1956

Advertisement, Amazon 37 Drying Tumbler, manufactured by James Armstrong & Co Ltd, London. 1957

Arabs and others with oil barrels in an unidentified location. Date: circa 1920s

Waverley threshing machine, USA
Waverley & Co threshing machine with gas 22hp engine (horse-drawn), USA. Date: circa 1910s

Women working in a laundry. Date: circa 1930s

Communist China - school-based factory
Students in school in Communist China, making notes and learning about machinery in a school-based mini-factory. circa 1970

Communist China - land reclaimed for farming
Harvesting scene in Communist China - an army reclamation farm, showing land reclaimed for farming to increase crop cultivation. circa 1950s

Advertisement for Dupress Laundry Press. 1956

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Gold Mines
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Mines - Gold Mining - miner operating a pneumatic drill. Date: circa 1930s

Diving apparatus by Siebe at the Great Exhibition
Augustus Siebe (1788 April 15, 1872) exhibited in the machinery department at the Great Exhibition in London a model of his diving apparatus. Date: 1851

Welchs Table-Cloth Printing Works, showing embossing presses, dye wheel, beck, and printing by hand. 1852

People operating a hand mill. 17th century

The Safety of Londons Underground and Tube Railways
Automatic devices for preventing accidents: the safety of Londons Underground and Tube Railways. How the element of danger from human error or illness is eliminated by mechanical means

WW2 - Land Girls working the land. Date: circa 1943

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