Historic Engineering Drawings

A collection of detailed technical drawings featuring cranes, testing laboratory designs, and mechanical systems. The images exhibit intricate lines, technical annotations, and historical styles.

Télescope parallactique de Merz et Mahler: détails relatifs au mouvement de l'axe horaire. Illustrations, Prints. 1845. General Research Division. Astronomical observatories, Refracting telescopes, Optical instruments , Drawings

Unknown architect, crane for a seaport. Monthly competition December 1876 (12,1876): Riss side view, cross -sections, top view; Details, construction scheme, forces; 3 scale strips. Tusche watercolor on the box, supplemented with pencil, 60.1 x 90.9 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Kran für einen Seehafen. Monatskonkurrenz Dezember 1876

Technical drawing. Technical drawing with two wheels on an axis and weights filled with liquid, possibly from a pump, with indications in letters that refer to an explanatory text.

Technical drawing, Abraham Delfos, after Dirk Kuipers, 1761 print Technical drawing with two wheels on an axle and weights filled with liquid, possibly of a pump, with indications in letters that refer to an explanatory text. Leiden paper etching industrial design

Poelzig Hans (1869-1936), I.G.-colors in Frankfurt/Main. Test laboratory (September 23, 1929): Stone profiles 1: 1. Pencil on transparent, 81.7 x 109.8 cm (including scan edges) Poelzig Hans (1869-1936): I.G.-Farben, Frankfurt/Main. Versuchslaboratorium

Spieker Paul (1826-1896), scientific institutes on the Telegrafenberg, Potsdam. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V. Ministry of Public Works, Jg. 44, 1894): cuts housing for passage observations of the geodetic institute. Stitch on paper, 42.8 x 27.1 cm (including scan edges)

Bernhard Finder: Exercise form theory

$Télescope parallactique de Merz et Mahler: détails relatifs au mouvement de l'axe horaire. Illustrations, Prints. 1845. General Research Division. Astronomical observatories, Refracting telescopes, Optical instruments , Drawings$

Höganäs coal grapes chronology.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

Octagonal box, Carel Jacob de Huyser, 1778 print An octagonal box, drawn on the left using a graphometer and on the right according to the doctrine of the perspective (Rules of Visiting). At the top right marked: planche VII. The print is part of the book: A.G. Eckhardt, Description of a general graphometer, 1778. paper engraving / etching instruments for perspective drawing

N.N., steam drawing for drainage of lowlands. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V. Ministry of Public Works, Jg. 44, 1894): Details 1: 150, 1: 100. Stitch on paper, 43.1 x 27 cm (including scan edges)

Mathematic drawings, 1837 - 1881 Leaf 31 Verso from a sketchbook with 33 sheets and 10 separate drawings. paper. pencil drawing (mathematics)

Projections obliques,Elément de perspective linéaire.. Émile Voitelain et Ce. Design drawings, Drawings. 1859. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Draperies, Upholstery

Baltzer W., Massive bridge with a ship's passage (without date): side view of the steam boiler, longitudinal cut and cross -section through the steam boiler. Tuser and pencil watercolored on paper, 42.7 x 58.4 cm (including scan edges) Baltzer W. : Massive Brücke mit Schiffsdurchlass

Unknown architect, botanical garden of the Christian Albrechts University Kiel (approx. 1889/1890): steam boiler Details 1:10. Lithograph on paper, 69 x 49.3 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Botanischer Garten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

Floor Lamp, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas, George Mann Niedecken, 1878-1945, Henry J. Allen, Elsie J. Nuzman (Mrs. Henry J.) Allen, Graphite, color pencil on beige tracing paper, Design for a floor lamp showing in the center: a frontal view of the lamp, with a bird's eye view of the shade above it. At the left: design for how the shade and bulb will work. At right: view of lamp from the side., USA, 1917, lighting, Drawing, Drawing

Technical drawings of stairs; Theatrum Machinarum Universal; Or new generally engineering (...). Technical drawings of spindle stages (numbers 29 to 31). Top views.

N.N., Luminous Fire plant Westerheversand, Westerhever: site plan 1: 200. Lithograph on cardboard, 77.2 x 53.1 cm (including scan edges)

$Spieker Paul (1826-1896), astrophysical observatory at the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam (01.11.1894): Dome for the photographic refractor: floor plan, ground floor, open east view, longitudinal view 1: 100. Lithograph colored on the box, 52.8 x 70.6 cm (including scan edges) Spieker Paul (1826-1896): Astrophysikalisches Observatorium auf dem Telegrafenberg, Potsdam$

N.N., steam excavator »Ratibor« (1887-1887): ERICEITOR: Details. Light break watercolored on paper, 46.1 x 62.2 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Dampfbagger »Ratibor«

N.N., Spoyschleuse, Brene: Roll wedge shooter in the head: Views, supervision, cuts 1:20, 1:10. Lithograph on paper, 49.4 x 66.3 cm (including scan edges)

Saint-Antoine Hospital: Full Charles Rohault de Fleury (1801-1875). Saint-Antoine Hospital: Full. Drawing from a connected album, made up of drawings mounted, and unmounted. Feather and black ink, blue, brown and black lavis.

Inside the Pantheon in Rome; border of the oculus; solid mass of the vault, 1682, Paris, Publisher, Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, Architecture, Rome, Vaults (Architecture), Pantheon (Rome, Italy), Engravings

Unknown architect, state high school, Wroclaw (without dat.): Air heating apparatus: cut 1:20. Lithograph colored on the box, 50.9 x 71.3 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Staatliches Gymnasium, Breslau

Schematic overview of a part of a fortification wall.

Study. Leaf 15 Verso from a sketchbook with 42 sheets.

Warth Otto (1845-1918), pharmacological institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Strasbourg (1884): 2 cross-sections through the sides. Tusche watercolor on the box, 51.4 x 72.2 cm (including scan edges) Warth Otto (1845-1918): Pharmakologisches Institut der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität Straßburg

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Technical drawings of stairs; Theatrum Machinarum Universal; Or new generally engineering (...). Technical drawings of a spindle staircase (number 40). Top and side views and stair gate.

N.N., Trajektanstalt between Stralsund and Rügen. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V.F. Endell, Jg. 35, 1885.) (1885-1885): Details. Lithograph on paper, 45.8 x 29.2 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Trajektanstalt zwischen Stralsund und Rügen. (Aus: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, hrsg. v. F. Endell, Jg. 35, 1885)

Strack Heinrich (1841-1912), Thorn-Insterburger Railway. Vistula bridge near Thorn. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V.F. Endell, Jg. 26, 1876.) (1876-1876): Details. Stitch on paper, 45.5 x 29.9 cm (including scan edges) Strack Heinrich (1841-1912): Thorn-Insterburger Eisenbahn. Weichselbrücke, Thorn. (Aus: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, hrsg. v. F. Endell, Jg. 26, 1876)

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Technical drawings of stairs; Theatrum Machinarum Universal; Or new generally engineering (...). Technical drawings of spindle stages and a staircase with intuited quarters (numbers 24 to 28). Top views.

Architectural drawing of the Burgtheater in Vienna by Carl von Hasenauer showing valve construction, floor plans, and section cuts, executed with black and red ink and watercolor.

Tieden August (1834-1911), Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (1875-1888): Cut 1: 100. Lithograph colored on paper, 67.2 x 89.9 cm (including scan edges)

Tieden August (1834-1911), Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (1875-1888): Heating Details 1: 5, 1:10, 1: 100. Lithograph on paper, 67.3 x 91.9 cm (including scan edges)

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Technical drawings of stairs; Theatrum Machinarum Universal; Or new generally engineering (...). Technical drawings of spindle stages (numbers 12 to 15). Top views.

Böhmer Franz (1907-1943), weekend hotel and lido (January 31, 1933): Weekend Hotel: Scheme of the ventilation and air heating system. Light break watercolored on paper, 44.1 x 77.9 cm (including scan edges)

N.N., diving apparatus of the Elbstrom management, Magdeburg. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V. G. Erbkam, Jg. 29, 1879) (1879-1879): floor plan, cuts. Stitch on paper, 29.7 x 45.5 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Taucherapparat der Elbstrom-Verwaltung, Magdeburg. (Aus: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, hrsg. v. G. Erbkam, Jg. 29, 1879)

Designs for a round table on a triple, 1831 Designs for a round table on a three-foot with a map of the foot and a map of the interior of the upper part with drawers, and the front and side view of a work table, with an alternative to transverse sport. Paris paper. ink pen / brush

Plan of the device executed to raise the statue of Napoleon, place Vendôme, in 1833

Plan and elevation of a blast furnace, showing the blowing engine, water blast regulator, and the tuyeres supplying the blast to the furnace. The introduction of coke in place of charcoal made the need for greater draughts imperative, and it was only the application of Watt's steam engine that finally ousted charcoal. Dated 19th century

N.N., institution for impregnating railway thresholds, Rheine. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V. G. Erbkam, Jg. 10, 1860.) (1860-1860): cross-section. Stitch on paper, 29.5 x 45.3 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Anstalt zum Imprägnieren von Eisenbahnschwellen, Rheine. (Aus: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, hrsg. v. G. Erbkam, Jg. 10, 1860)

Nets and forest branches. Two performances on a leaf. Above: Nets and Figs. Below: just and a forest branches.

Precession of the Nachteving, Sébastien Leclerc (I), 1706 print Numbered at the top right: 145. print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching vernal equinox

Freitfenbach Friedrich, pathological-pharmacological institute of the Albertus University Königsberg (01.05.1891): Department 1: 250. Lithograph, 51.7 x 68.3 cm (including scan edges)

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UNION IRON WORKS BLUEPRINT OF 60-INCH TELESCOPE AND DOME, LOOKING EAST.

Rhinoceros of Africa, James Heath, 1757-1834, British, after James Bruce, 1730-1794, British, 1789, Engraving

Mechanism, c. 1901 Leaf 46 Verso from a sketchbook with 79 sheets. pencil. chalk mechanics

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Second Pyramid. Passages and chambers.. Perring, John Shae, 1813-1869. Perring, John Shae, 1813-1869. Prints, Illustrations. 1840. General Research Division. Pyramids , Egypt, Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)

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Ministry of public work, table, schemel, chair, wall cabinet for single cell (from: sample drawings for expansion by prisons in Prussia, edit. , 9 x 65.5 cm (including scan edges)

Schmalz Otto (1861-1906), Urania pillars (May 1891): cross-section 1:10. Tusche watercolor on paper, 72.1 x 34.8 cm (including scan edges) Schmalz Otto (1861-1906): Urania-Säulen

Röhlike Hans, Graphostatics (07.1904): Graphic examination of a vault, static calculation, 1:33 1/3. Ink, ink colored, watercolor on cardboard, 34.2 x 52.5 cm (including scan edges) Röhlike Hans : Graphostatik

Poelzig Hans (1869-1936), I.G.-colors in Frankfurt/Main. Test laboratory (04.02.1930): Glass partrid 4 in the dyeing 1:20. Pencil on transparent, 33.8 x 36.7 cm (including scan edges) Poelzig Hans (1869-1936): I.G.-Farben, Frankfurt/Main. Versuchslaboratorium

Unknown architect, university, Wroclaw. New buildings. Comrades of the clinics (approx. 1891): cross -sections and cuts through the quick drying room and the food output. Lithograph colored on paper, 48 x 69.2 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Universität Breslau. Klinische Neubauten. Wirtschaftsgebäude der Kliniken

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Detailed roof cross-sections by Carl von Hasenauer using black pen and pencil, showing architectural and structural components.

Use of De Passer, Sébastien Leclerc (I), 1690 print Numbered at the top right: 233. print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching / letterpress printing planimetry, geometry. compasses

Gustav garlic (1833-1916), Corpshaus Guestphalia, Marburg: Longitudinal section 1:50. Ink on transparent, 52.6 x 61.3 cm (including scan edges)

Gustav Stier (1807-1880): Inheritance. Monthly competition June 1829

Plan et coupe de cirque de la menagerie de Mr Percier. Plan and cross-section of the menagerie circus by Mr. Percier.. Architectural drawings, Floor plans, Elevations. 1806. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Amphitheaters

Skiopticone image with motifs from Göteborg exhibition 1923.

Position of the earth at the time of the perigeum and that of the Zenit, Sébastien Leclerc (I), 1706 print Numbered at the top right: 29. print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching earth, world as celestial body

Cross -section and side view of pillar footpieces, Petrus Johannes Arendzen, 1875 - 1895 print Netherlands paper engraving / etching Sint-Janskathedral

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

Diestel Georg (1854-1926), Surgical Clinic of the Charité, Berlin: Grundriss foundation 1: 100. Lithograph colored on cardboard, 86.4 x 161.9 cm (including scan edge).

Unknown architect, eye and ear clinic of the Christian Albrechts University Kiel (approx. 1889/1890): cross-section 1:50. Lithograph colored on paper, 69.2 x 49.1 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Augen- und Ohrenklinik der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

N.N., Botanical Garden, Munich. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V. G. Erbkam, born 17, 1867.) (1867-1867): Grundriss Keller, eG. Stitch on paper, 43.6 x 56.9 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Botanischer Garten, München. (Aus: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, hrsg. v. G. Erbkam, Jg. 17, 1867)

The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, London, Longmans, Green, & Co, 1901, fishing, fly fishing, trout fishing, grayling fishing, flies, artificial, The illustration features two prominent geometric shapes, each accompanied by a circle at the top. Lines and curves are drawn to depict angles and relationships between various points labeled with numbers and letters. The left section showcases a slanted shape with a smooth edge. The diagram incorporates delicate shading to highlight the contrast between the elements. The right side reveals a rough, textured edge, creating an interesting juxtaposition with the adjacent geometric design. Overall, the composition illustrates principles of geometry and perspective, clearly demonstrating the interplay between angles and shapes in a structured format.

Höganäs coal grapes chronology.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

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N.N., turning bridge over the fiscal harbor canal, Elbing: rotary wind turbine, lower mechanism: cuts 1:10. Lithograph colored on paper, 50.8 x 68.8 cm (including scan edges)

Knoblauch Gustav (1833-1916), Rittergut Börnicke: floor plan KG and EG. Ink, pencil and ink colored watercolor on the box, 43.8 x 34.9 cm (including scan edges)

Holy of Holies & Tabernacle, from Physique sacree, ou Histoire-naturelle de la Bible, 1732-1737, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733), a Swiss scholar born at Zurich

Mechanical engineering drawings on blue background. Drill tools, borer. Technical Design. Cover. Blueprint. Vector illustration. Mechanical engineering drawings on blue background. Drill tools, borer. Technical Design. Cover. Blueprint. Vector illustration.

Textiles: a specialized loom for embroidery. Engraving by G. Gladwin.

N.N., Elevator »Loki« of the hydraulic engineering inspection, Tönning: roundabout pump: cuts 1:20. Lithograph on cardboard, 31.8 x 48.9 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Elevator »Loki« der Wasserbauinspektion, Tönning

Print, The Gentleman's and Cabinet-Maker's Director; England; etching on off-white laid paper

N.N., Oder-Spree Canal. Obere Schleuse, Fürstenberg/Oder (05.1890): steam engine and steam boiler: cuts 1:10, 1: 3. Lithograph on paper, 64.4 x 51.9 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Oder-Spree-Kanal. Obere Schleuse, Fürstenberg/Oder

A drawing of Hermesvilla in Vienna XIII by Carl von Hasenauer, executed on paper using blue ink and spring technique.

Lupus healing, cross -section through the north wing in the front, Otto Wagner -, artist

Poelzig Hans (1869-1936), Sporthalle, Berlin (July 20, 1926): 8 sections 1: 200. Blueprint on paper, 47.3 x 120.6 cm (including scan edges)

Knorr Friedrich, University, Wroclaw. Botanical museum (approx. 1889): heating technology 1:25. Lithograph colored on paper, 49.4 x 68.5 cm (including scan edges) Knorr Friedrich : Universität Breslau. Botanisches Museum

Folio f 68v. Codex Madrid I (Ms. 8937) "Treaty of statics and mechanics", 192 folios with 384 pages. Internal format: 215 x 145 mm. APPLIED MECHANICS (COMPONENTS). APPLIED MECHANICS (MACHINES AND WITS). PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS, CINEMATICS, DYNAMICS. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA, MADRID. Author: LEONARDO DA VINCI.

Floor plans and sketches of animal enclosures in Wiener Tiergarten, Vienna II, showing tears and structural details, drawn in pencil.

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Drawing of ceiling constructions and cross-sections by Carl von Hasenauer, executed in black ink, pencil, and watercolor on December 20, 1850, showing structural and architectural details.

Floor plan of the straight variant of spectator areas in the Burgtheater, Vienna I, by Carl von Hasenauer, drawn on wax screen with spring, showing seating and layout, dated March 13, 1876.

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N.N., Perspective exercises (without date): floor plans, perspective view, views. Light break on paper, 53 x 45.2 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Perspektivübungen

N.N., Fischereihafen, Geestemünde: Fischauction and Package: cross-section 1:50. Lithograph on paper, 50.2 x 66.2 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Fischereihafen, Geestemünde

Sections of a coal mine. Etching by Garner.

Perspective drawing. Leaf 53 Verso from a sketchbook with 53 sheets.

Measuring instruments (lancing and hollow measurement), tear focal with tear needle, rod circle, angle instruments (quadrant, semicircular angle instrument)

Dry Dock Number 4, Typical Cross Sections - Alternate Designs. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Design for an adjustable standard, two views (), B. Winghofer (attributed to), c. 1852 - c. 1855 drawing Mainz ink. graphite (mineral) drawing

N.N., new lock, Brieg: cylinder shooter: views, cuts 1:25, 1:10. Lithograph on paper, 48 x 64.3 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Neue Schleuse, Brieg

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