Tool Collection (page 8)

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Young woman in a large hat sitting on straw
A young woman in a large hat sitting on straw. Date: early 20th century

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

Boy repairing a clock -- Something Wrong with the Works

Pyrenean Man sharpening his scythe
Pyrenean Mountain Man sharpening his scythe, France Date: circa 1910s

Tools of the Guns Makers
Tools used to make guns in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Silver Plating 18th C
Various tools used for silver plating including a hammer, screws and chucks. Date: Circa 1760

Stoneworkers Tools 18Th
Various tools including pickaxes, hammers and measuring instruments used by stoneworkers and masons in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Gold Beater C1760
A gold-beating factory in France in the 18th century. Workers are melting and beating gold to make ingots. Date: circa 1760

Miners at Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales
A group of miners from the morning shift pose for their photo in a coal seam at Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales

Close-up of fishermans hands, mending a net
A close-up of a fishermans toil-worn hands, as he sits mending a net

Devon gardener having a rest
The gardener of a large house in Devon stops to have a rest. He is leaning on his spade, and has left a hoe leaning up against the wall

Checking blue woollen threads
A factory worker checks a machine rolling dark blue yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Clearing Bristol Sewers
Three workers use spades and a pneumatic drill to clear/expand the tunnel space in Bristols underground sewerage system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Chinese peasant pushing wooden tool, possibly for farming
Undated illustration of Chinese peasant pushing wooden tool, possibly for farming, with dog (Dadley, London, Sculpt). HPG/8/2/1 (xxxiv)

The Ironmongers Shop. A little girl amid the metal tools, pails, buckets, kettles, cans, scythes and rakes in an Ironmongers store

Propaganda Tram 2
To make sure all get the Bolshevik message, every kind of propaganda tool is used - this agitation tram carries the word through city streets

Propaganda Tram
To ensure everyone gets the Bolshevik message, every kind of propaganda tool is used - this agitation tram carries the word through city streets

Electro-magnetic surgery
A tool to aid surgeons in the operating theatre. A electro-magnetic machine to detect and remove metal particles from wounds

A Cooper at Work
A cooper uses a hand adze to shape one of the bands used to hold together the individual slats which make up a barrel or keeler tub. The workshop is known as a cooperage

Ww1 / Wurttemberg Trench
Wurttemberg troops observing. An officer uses a pair of binoculars in order to observe enemy movements

Market on Ice / Sweden / C16
A market held on the ice in Upsala. A transaction is going on between a customer and a tool seller

Multiple Autograph Tool
A starlet saves herself a lot of time and effort by using a device for signing several autographs at once

Electric Welding
A welder uses an electric arc- welding tool to join the metal parts of a steel structure. The parts are heated to white heat and metal added to make the join

Girl Harvester Drinks
A dark haired young woman stands amid a corn field with a hand scythe hanging from her waist & a jug in her hand. In her hair are poppies & cornflowers from the field

Pressing Grapes by Hand
In Bordeaux, France at this time they crushed grapes by hand using a long handled tool with 3 spokes (possibly like a potato masher) to extract the juice

C17 Shoemaker / Woodcut
A shoe maker sitting at his workbench files the wooden sole of shoe

Bathing and washing in Ancient Rome -- a family using strigiles in a bath house. The strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt

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