19th Century Workspaces

Engravings of historical workshops and factories from the 19th century, depicting trades like coachmaking, precision instrument manufacturing, and mining, with detailed craftsmanship.

Queen Victoria & Prince Albert visiting the Machinery Department The Great Exhibition of 1851

An engraving depicting a coachmaker's loft in the Long Acre area of London - the centre of the city's coach building trade. Dated 19th century

Interior of the Molteni precision instrument factory, on Rue du Chateau, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 614, Volume XXIV, December 2, 1854.

Silver mill, crushing silver ore, in 1870, California, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Exact date unknown, North America

Trumpet and trombone storeroom, Gautrot musical instrument factory, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 647, Volume XXVI, July 21, 1855.

Hibber, Platt & Co's cotton manufacturing machinery. Great Exhibition, 1851. From The Illustrated London News, 23 August 1851.

Queen Victoria & Prince Albert visiting the Machinery Department The Great Exhibition of 1851

Spain, Madrid. New typographic establishment of the 'Sucesores de Rivadeneyra', in the Paseo de San Vicente. Glazers and Minerva printing press. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.

19th century paper making plant. Machines pulping rags in preparation for paper making. After an illustration in Les merveilles de l'industrie, by Louis Figuier, published 1877.

The Armstrong Gun Factory, Elswick, Newcastle on Tyne, England. Boring and turning shop. From Great Engineers, published c.1890

The Illustrated London News being printed at the Great Exhibition on the patented Applegath (often mis-spelled Applegarth) vertical printing-press. Date: 1851

Engraving depicting a shed where skins were stripped and trimmed and prepared to receive tanning.

Bessemer process for mass-production of steel from pig iron converting in operation at steel works, Sheffield, England. Engraving 1888.

Inside of a book binding factory. Engraving.

INTERIOR OF A MAT SHED IN HONG KONG

Re-surfacing the road at Whitehall: the roadworks attract a crowd although one lady is choked by fumes from the tar machines Date: 1887

Workers in the machine room of the Saxon machine factory, one of the most important mechanical engineering companies in Saxony in the second half of the 19th century, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Spain. Catalonia. Badalona. Sugar refinery of Roget, Fonrodona y Castello. Interior. Engraving. "El Museo Universal", 1868.

NEW ROLLING MACHINE FOR MAKING HORSE-SHOE NAILS, 1873

Construction work on a panorama of the Champs-Elysees Date: 1872

Puddling furnace and mechanical hammer (right background): Pig iron puddled to remove carbon and oxygen, ball of hot metal (bloom) then hammered. Process sometimes repeated. Purest form of iron with great strength produced. Krupps Works, Essen, Germany. Wood engraving, Leipzig, c1895.

Charles Laure's printing press. View of the machines. Engraving. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus_e Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum).

Interior of a glass factory in Lodelinsart, Hainaut province. Belgium, Europe. Journey to Belgium by Camille Lemonnier. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1906

Large French Industries - Fortif Factory - M. Motheau Workshops Emile Bourdelin, French engraver. "Large French Industries - Fortific Footwear - Mr. Motheau workshops". Photomechanical printing. 1861.

Horse being lowered into a mine, Le Creusot, France. Europe, drawing by Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) Le Creusot et les mines de Saone-et-Loire, 1865 by Louis Laurent Simonin (1830-1886) Le Tour du Monde 1867

19th century illustration of a pit pony, mining horse strapped in a harness and being lowered down a coal mine shaft

Manufacture of tobacco.

Engraving depicting the unloading of coal at the Limehouse Dock. London

Engraving depicting the battery room at the General Post Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which housed the thousands of wet battery cells which powered the telegraph system.

Power-operated jacquard loom for the production of Stuff. Engraving.

Woodcut illustration shows a rope making factory. Known as the spinning room. London, 1880.

Trumpet and trombone manufacturing, Gautrot musical instrument factory, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 647, Volume XXVI, July 21, 1855.

Defense of Paris. The H.Flaud workshop, used for the manufacture of Meudon machine guns and the transformation of guns of 12. (IT)

Application of cold to industry. Raoul Pictect system. Interior of an ice factory, capable of producing 25,000 kilograms per day. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Engraving depicting waterproof cloth with rubber for use in the Crimea: George Spill's works, Stepney, London.

Generating light at Montmartre, during the Siege of Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71. The technology involved using a steam engine as a source of power. a searchlight is being directed on some distant object which is being observed by the soldier directly below. On the table are two carbon arc lamps in addition to an oil lamps.

Cuba. Bolondron, province of Matanzas. Engenho (sugar cane mill) ""Armonia"" (1848). Industry property of Mr. Miguel Aldama Alfonso and Mr. Jose Luis Alfonso. General view of the boiler house, where the process of boiling and evaporation of the juices obtained from the grinding of the sugar cane was carried out. Engraving. Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias (General Chronicle of Spain, Illustrated and Descriptive History of its Provinces), Antilles, 1871.

Cuba. Bolondron, province of Matanzas. Engenho (sugar cane mill) ""Armonia"" (1848). Industry property of Mr. Miguel Aldama Alfonso and Mr. Jose Luis Alfonso. General view of the boiler house, where the process of boiling and evaporation of the juices obtained from the grinding of the sugar cane was carried out. Engraving. Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias (General Chronicle of Spain, Illustrated and Descriptive History of its Provinces), Antilles, 1871.

The manufacture of the Atlantic submarine cable at Glass, Elliott and Co.'s Works, East Greenwich, London Date: 1857

mail post telegraphy transatlantic telegraph cable machine for cable laying lower deck of ""Great Eastern"" wood engraving ""Illustrierte Zeitung"" Leipzig 1866,

19th century glass factory producing glass cylinders. After an illustration in Les merveilles de l'industrie, by Louis Figuier, published 1877.

Woodcut illustration shows a rope making factory. Known as the spinning room. London, 1880.

This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows the Great Steam Hammer Royal Gun Factory Woolwich. The hammer was, at the time, thought to be one of the most powerful steam hammers ever constructed. Its purpose was to forge great guns for the British Navy. The hammer was made by Nasymth & Co. Its height is about 50 feet and it is surrounded with furnaces and powerful cranes, carrying the huge iron tomgs that are to grap the glowing masses. Th hammer descend not merely with its own weight of 30 tons; steam is injected behind the falling piston, which is thus driven down with vastly enhanced rapi

industry paper paper products factory in Aschaffenburg Lower Franconia wood engraving circa 1880,

Hoe's six feeder type revolving fast printing machine Date: circa 1870

Coopers at work. From 'Encyclopedie', Paris, c1751.

Interior of a crystal factory, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1841.

The Marquis de Jouffroy studies Challiot's fire pump

A Spitalfields weaver at work 1855

Engraving depicting Augustus Applegath's rotary press. Augustus Applegath (1788-1871) an English printer and inventor known for developing the first workable vertical-drum rotary printing press. Dated 19th century

Construction of the piano structure, Camille Pleyel piano factory, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 641, Volume XXV, June 9, 1855.

In the Mixing Room, which otherwise looks like a somewhat spartan bathhouse, the contents of the earthen pans are thrown into vats and stirred with blind rakes until the whole mass becomes a homogeneous paste'.

Engraving depicting Richard March Hoe's ten-feeder rotary printing press. Richard March Hoe (1812-1886) an American inventor from New York City who designed a rotary printing press and related advancements. Dated 19th century

The Armstrong Gun Factory, Elswick, Newcastle on Tyne, England. Casting shell and shot. From Great Engineers, published c.1890

Workshop dedicated to handcrafting the paperboard. Pulping and pressing. 18th century. Encyclopedie by Diderot et d'Alembert. Engraving.

Saxby cabin, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

A roasting room in the Fry's chocolate factory in Bristol Date: 1884

Spain. Metal casting factory founded by Leoncio Meneses, named "Silver Meneses". Laborers working on the casting room. Engraving by Urrabieta in "La Ilustracio_n Espan_ola y Americana", 1872.

Jacquard loom showing the punched cards carrying the pattern instructions. These were strips of pasteboard - or sometimes tin - 304-608mm long by 50-75mm wide, with perforations t.35 in diameter. A card was needed for each weft thread of a pattern and, although 400-800 cards were normally used, patterns needing 24,000 were sometimes worked. From Louis Figuier Les Grandes Inventions, Paris, 1863.

Making one of the hands of the Statue of Liberty, Paris. France. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. England. Industrial Revolution (1860). M.M.Owen and Uglow long socks factory.. Engraving.

A Day at the Yorkshire Worsted-Factories: Jacouard Weaving Shed, Akroyds Worsted-Factory. Illustration from an english magazine printed in 1844

An engraving depicting the Billingsgate fish market, London. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting the process of casting the cylinders for the hydraulic lifting gear used to raise the prefabricated sections of the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits into position. Dated 19th century

MANUFACTURE OF STEEL PENS, SKETCHED AT THE WORKS OF MR. JOSEPH GILLOTT, VISITED BY H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES

Workshop for cutting, polishing and packing flint glass wares. Paris, 1870

Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Lipppe district. Bad Salzuflen. Rice starch factory of E. Hoffmann and Company, founded in 1852. Steam engine room. Steam engine with a power of 600 hp. Drawing from life by Theodor Volz. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

The interior of the factory of Pierre Louis Gautrot, showing the manufacture of brass musical instruments in 1855. Date: 1855

Brewery, brewhouse with complete machine operation / Brauerei, Sudhaus mit komplettem Maschinenbetrieb, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Woodcut engraving depicting the forging of an anchor: using a crane to hold the anchor on the anvil while burrs are hammered off.

Engraving depicting the Edison Company's Brooklyn Power Station, New York

A SPITALFIELDS WEAVER AT WORK, UK

Workers in the Warrick perfume factory in Nice, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1060, Volume XLI, June 20, 1863.

Weaving shed fitted with Jacquard power looms. Swags of punched cards carrying pattern being woven are at right and above each loom. Illustration Paris c1880

Engraving depicting the pan room at Fry's cocoa and chocolate factory - cocoa, sugar and vanilla are combined together, Bristol. Dated 19th century

Production and processing various sorts of glass from Plate, Sheet (window) and moulded wares, to Crystal and Optical items. Print c1870

Illustration depicting a rag warehouse in Paris, France. Dated 19th century

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a storeroom full of casks of ale. Wood-engraving, 1847.

An engraving depicting James Nasmyth's Steam Hammer at the Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich. James Nasmyth (1808-1890) a Scottish engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor. Dated 19th century

Illustration showing Packing department at Price's candle factory, Battersea, London 1848

Engraving depicting the process of turning barley into malt: grain was first steeped in a tank at the far end of the barn: after at least 40 hours it was placed in a rectangular heap or couch on the malting floor for about 96 hour, by which time it had risen 10 degrees Fahrenheit in temperature. It was then spread on the floor and turned 2 or 3 times a day for 12-14 days. Dated 19th century

Night work for the construction of buildings, 1869, Moniteur, Paris, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

Glass: the interior of a glass factory, with people at work. Coloured lithograph by P. Bineteau, 1848.

Women working in the doubling- room at Dean Mills cotton-mill (between Bolton & Manchester, Lancashire) Date: 1851

Gas works: l: Retort House. 2: Tar cistern. 3: Condenser. 5,6: Gasholder. 7: Office. 8: Workshops. aa: Pipes connecting tar cistern to hydraulic main.b, Pipe connecting a,a, and condenser. From 'The Oxford Encyclopaedia', Oxford, 1828.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Silver amalgam purification workshop, Gould and Curry factory in Nevada, United States of America. Old 19th century engraved illustration. Travel from Washington to San Francisco by Louis Laurent Simonin from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

Interior de la fábrica textil equipada con máquinas de vapor "Vapor Vell", del barrio de Sants de Barcelona. Dibujo de Francisco Fortuny.

George Townsend & Co's needle works, Hunt Worcestershire; England. The reducing room, where lengths of wire were cut to the required sizes 1869

Men exercising using various apparatus Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) gymnasium, Longacre, London, England Wood engraving

An engraving depicting Heywood & Clark's varnish works. Dated 19th century

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW-YARD

Trumpets and trombone manufacturing, Gautrot musical instrument factory, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 647, Volume XXVI, July 21, 1855.

1880s ENGRAVING OF 19th CENTURY IRON WORKS

Engraving depicting the production of lengths of 'Mackintosh' rubberised waterproof cloth

Gold Mining 1890nische Amalgammuehle, Amalgamation, a smelting process in which the extraction of the silver and gold from ores and smelting products is done with the help of mercury, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original

Sevres manufacturing, the Revue de l'Expo Universelle de 1889. Universal Exhibitions, France, 19th century.

Construction in progress Date: 1892

Trade Card - Joseph Gillott, Birmingham, 1835. Manufacturer of steel pens. Illustrations show manufacturing operations - scouring, rolling the steel, the muffle, grinding and colouring.

Illustration depicting the interior of an ice works, Paris, France. Dated 19th century

WAR MANUFACTURES AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL

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