Items matching machinery (results page 2)

Armillary Sphere, Scanned VersionAstrology (1806)

I scanned the Armillary Sphere again (oops), and this time decided to publish the illustration moer or less as it came off the scanner, as a picture from an old book. Copies of this book are apparentl [...]

Keywords: astrology, astronomy, diagrams, machinery, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-25

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Old Advert: The Sun TypewriterScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

The SUN Typwriter No. 2 PERFECT IN MECHANICAL ACTION It is a type lever or type bar machine. It has visible writing in its truest form. It has unlimited speed. It has an anti-ribbon inking mechanis [...]

Keywords: advertisements, machinery, typewriters, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-28

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Antique typewriterScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

An old picture of a typewriter, suitable for clip-art; the machine was new when the picture was taken. This is taken from an old ad for a type-writer.

Keywords: advertisements, typewriters, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-28

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Spinning JennyHand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

The Spinning Jenny as shown here was originally invented by James Hargreaves in 1766; like Samuel Crompton who invented the mule-driven version, the mule jenny, James Hargreaves died without much mone [...]

Keywords: machinery, diagrams, wheels, looms, weaving, industrial revolution, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-23

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Le Tunnel du Saint-Gotthard.—Machine à perforer, mue par l’air compriméLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A man stands facing left, apparently calm, wearing overcoat and wide-brimmed hat, in an underground tunnel; behind him is a large metal cylindrical tank, horizontal, fitted with railway wheels; to th [...]

Keywords: machinery, steampunk, railways, people, wheels, men, engines, tunnels, excavation, digging, hats, greyscale

Places shown: Gotthard Tunnel; Broager; Uri; Switzerland

Added: 2020-10-31

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Cotton Manufacture Fig. 1.—Saw Gin.Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

In order to remove the seed from the [cotton] fibre, the raw cotton must undergo the process of ‘ginning.’ Ginning establishments are mostly situated in the vicinity of the cotton fields, and the mach [...]

Keywords: diagrams, machinery, cotton, wheels, rollers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-06-14

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1732.—Clock at Hampton Court.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nin [...]

Keywords: clocks, astrology, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: Hampton Court Palace; Hampton Court; Middlesex; London; England

Added: 2016-04-29

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The Evolution of the BicycleHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

This late Victorian illustration shows eleven different designs of bicycle along with cross-sections of three kinds of tyre. 1820: The hobby horse; Macmillan’s crank bicycle; 1867: First bicycle illus [...]

Keywords: bicycles, machinery, diagrams, people, wheels, infographics, transport, cycling, velicipedes, motorbikes, motorcycles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-24

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Sharp, Brothers, And Co.’s EngineSteam and the Steam Engine (1880)

“The annexed illustration will give a much better idea of the locomotive engine and boiler than the last one.” (p. 241) There is also a cross-section of this locomotive, which I have scanned but not y [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-06

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Plate I.—Section of Locomotive EngineSteam and the Steam Engine (1880)

This is a cross-section through a steam engine (i.e. a railway locomotive, or a railroad engine as they say in North America). The description is a little hard to follow, so I made a version in which [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-06

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Plate I.—Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]Steam and the Steam Engine (1880)

This is a version of Plate I in which I have coloured the letters blue, to try to make it easier to follow the description, which I have also repeated here: In this sectional elevation F is the furnac [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines, steam engines, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-06

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Crampton’s EnginesSteam and the Steam Engine (1880)

“The above figure is another plan of arranging the locomotive. The examples given on page 238 have eight wheels, the general run is six wheels with the large driving wheel in the middle; but in Crampt [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-15

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[Festiniog Railway Locomotive]Steam and the Steam Engine (1880)

“In the example here given, the engine is on two trucks [bogies]. The one end can be turned so that the double sets of wheels are not in the same straight line. In practice it is found that bogie carr [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: Wales

Added: 2006-06-08

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Locomotive BoilerSteam and the Steam Engine (1880)

“256. Locomotive Boiler.—All locomotive boilers are of the class called multibar: they consist essentially of the barrel filled with tubes, while the two ends are named respectively the furnace, or fi [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines, steam engines, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-19

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Mr. Edison’s New PhonographHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

Mr. Edison in his laboratory receiving the first phonogram from England. The inventor, Mr. Thomas Edison, is seated on a wicker chair, one arm over the backrest, the other elbow on the cloth-covered t [...]

Keywords: people, inventors, machinery, men, phonographs, record players, edison, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-06-01

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Great Western express engineSteam and the Steam Engine (1880)

“General Description of a Locomotive.—This is one of the Great Western express engines, running on eight wheels; the large wheel is the driving wheel, the others are called the leading and triling wh [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-06

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Vintage TractorsDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Traction Engines, or steam-powered tractors, from 1890

Keywords: machinery, farm machinery, traction engines, fields, steam power, industrial revolution, rural, machines, wheels, steam, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-07

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57.—Second Pulley System.Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882)

The only system of pulleys frequently employed for hoisting is what is called the second system, where there are two blocks of pulleys, one attached to the weight, and the other to the beam; and where [...]

Keywords: pulleys, machinery, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-29

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58.—Screw Lever Pointer.Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882)

139. A combination of levers is sometimes used, but more often for the purpose of magnifying small motions than for exerting great force; that is, for increasing the factor s in the product work at th [...]

Keywords: machinery, levers, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-29

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59.—Screw Press.Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882)

A lever and an inclined plane may be combined together into a screw-press, the incluned plane being coiled up into a spiral or screw-thread (fig. 59). For every complete revolution of the lever, the [...]

Keywords: machinery, screws, knobs, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-29

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