Machinery Collection (page 20)

Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Automatic Balances. Date: circa 1910s

Exposition Nancy 1909 - Accumulators Lorraine ore hoppers with hatches. Date: circa 1911

Franco-British Exhibition, White City - Machinery Hall
Entrance to The Machinery Hall at the Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London. The point of the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908 was to celebrate the Entente Cordiale

St. Louis Worlds Fair - Machinery and Electricity Building
St. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Machinery and Electricity Building Date: 1904

The Scottish National Exhibition - Welcome Club
The Scottish National Exhibition - held at Edinburgh between May and October 1908. Pictured on this card are the Welcome Club and Machinery Hall. Date: 1908

HMS ?Sphinx?: oscillating jet condensing paddle wheel machinery / IMechE obj. 1855 Date: 1855

Tool grinding machinery

Sample forgings made by machinery

Special lathe for making tools for cartridge machinery. Height of centres 8.5 inches

Kokine Valley Road - Rangoon

Velvet Loom
The Loom for Making Velvet Seen in the Front. Date: Circa 1730

Cotton Mule Spinning
Cotton mule spinning Date: 1852

Jacquard Loom
JACQUARD LOOM An improved version of the loom originally invented in 1804 Date: 1915

Linen Processing Machine
Italian machines for the softening and treatment of hemp Date: circa 1850

Firefighters doing productive work in lull period, WW2
During the longer lulls in firefighting activities, NFS firefighters took part in industrial production for the countrys war needs

Eiffel Tower machinery with man beside wheel that raises elevator(?), during Paris Exposition. Date between 1887 and 1889?

Save Power at Work - Help your Fuel Watcher
World War Two public information poster for the Ministry of Food & Power - Save Power at Work. " Hi! Don t leave that machine running idle! And turn off that Blue Pencil Light!" circa 1940s

To the right hon ble Lord Bangor, this plate representing a complete perspective view of all the machinery of a bleach mill, upon the newest and most approved constructions

Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles - Cockerill
Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles - William Cockerill Stand - A British-born Blacksmith who founded the engineering business in 1799. Date: 1910

Mining in Germany From: Voyages faits en divers temps en Espagne, en Portugal, en Allemagne, en France et ailleurs Date: 1700

Advertisement for refrigeration units for ships
An advertisement for The Bell-Coleman Mechanical Refrigeration Company of Glasgow and London, Makers of Cold Air and Ice Making Machinery, as used on board various ships

Lille, France - The Liberation of the city (2 / 2)
Lille, France - After the liberation of the city at the end of the First World War. A Factory missing all of its machinery - carried off by the invading German army to use for their own ends

Automatic train ticket machine, 1904
A novel idea introduced in 1904 of an automatic booking clerk available at Homerton railway station in East London, enabling early morning workmen to buy a train ticket for 2d by putting money in

A butter factory in Canada. The card states that the butter produced was in high favour on the British market. Date: circa 1930s

Blanch Blower
Modern haymaking on a British farm, showing a close-up of the rotary rake and the intake of the Blanch Blower, a device for collecting hay after cutting. Date: 1960s

Woman working in a Munitions Factory - WWII. Women took the place of 100, 000 men working in heavy industry during the war, many in highly skilled engineering roles. Date: circa 1944

Machine Tool Press
A smart young worker, wearing spectacles and a waistcoat, operating a machine tool presss. Date: 1950s

Village Well House
This odd-shaped building on the village green at Offley, Hertfordshire, England is a well house, within which is modern pumping machinery providing water on tap. Date: 1930s

Italian Munitions Factory - Naples
Finishing Shop for an Italian Munitions Factory - Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1915

Troops at an encampment, Palestine, WW1
Troops (probably Turkish) at an encampment in the Palestine desert during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Camera used for air reconnaissance, WW1
A camera used for air reconnaissance during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Roberts and Coppocks Improvement in Looms for Weaving
Technical drawing of an invention, patented in 1855, by Roberts and Coppock, consisting of an improved arrangement of parts for letting the yarn off the warp beam in a weaving loom

Perrys Improved Printing Machine
Technical drawing showing an invention of Mr T. J Perry of the Lozells, Birmingham and comprises a method of constructing the moveable types used in cylinder printing

Steam Whipping Engine by J. Scott Russell and Co
Technical drawing depicting a patent Steam Whipping Machine constructed by Messrs. J. Scott Russell and Co. of Millwall and used to load and discharge cargo on screw collier ships. Date: 1856

Franco-British Exhibition- Machinery Hall
Machinery Hall (French Section) - Franco-British Exhibition, White City, Shepherds Bush, London, 1908. Date: 1908

Threshing wheat during the First World War -- more wheat was needed because of the U-Boat campaign. 1914-1918

National Childrens Home London Branch - Printers Room
The London branch of the home and orphanage run by the National Childrens Home (NCH). Here, boys are shown in the homes printers room surrounded by printing machinery. Date: Date unknown

Craftsman at a cabinet makers, Shoreditch, London
An old craftsman finishes off a drawer with a plane, at a Shoreditch cabinet makers. 1940s

Cabinet makers, Shoreditch, London 1940s
Two men operate a machine at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

Selecting timber at a cabinet makers, Shoreditch, London
A man selects a piece of wood at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

Processing sugar cane, 1877
Grinding sugar cane in Cuba. Date: 1877

Cabinet maker, Shoreditch, London 1940s
A man screws doors to a cabinet or cupboard at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

West Indies sugar mill
Interior view of a sugar mill in the West Indies. Date: 19th century

De Mornays patent sugar-mill, Brazil, 1854
The interior of a mill house showing de Mornays patent sugar-mill on the Carauna Estate, in Pernambuco, Brazil. Date: 1854

Scout operating winch for gliders
A Senior Scout at the controls of a winch used for launching gliders at the Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

London Evening News - Printing Press, running off the 10, 000th number during the papers Celebration Week on November 21st, 1913. The London Evening News was first published on July 26th 1881

Richard March Hoe
General RICHARD MARCH HOE American inventor of printing machinery, including the rotary or lightning press 1847, the web press and the web-perfecting press. Date: 1812 - 1886

Quarrying Machinery
Steam derrick for raising stone from deep quarries Mount Sorrel granite Company, Leicestershire

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