Historical Scientific Instruments

Engravings of various early scientific devices and machines, illustrating advancements in technology from the 18th and 19th centuries.

18th century engraving by T Jefferys, Diagram showing a machine for measuring the relative expansion of different metals when heat is applied.

Ramsden's electric machine (1768)

Hauksbee's second electric machine

18th century engraving by T Jefferys, Diagram showing a machine for measuring the relative expansion of different metals when heat is applied.

Engraving depicting a twin magic lantern for providing views by horizontal movement of the cams A, A,. Dated 19th century

Engine brotherhood, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

Camera, plate camera on a tripod, historical wood engraving, circa 1888

Engraving depicting James Watt's steam engine. James Watt (1736-1819) a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. Dated 19th century

Washing machine with ascending and descending stamp and grooved inner walls / Waschmaschine mit auf- und niedersteigendem Stempel und gerieften Innenwänden, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

An engraving depicting the manipulator of Foy and Breguet's needle-telegraph. Dated 19th century

Morse receiver, Morse-Stiftschreiber, 1880, historical woodcut, Germany, Europe

An engraving depicting a magic lantern illuminated by Dubosc's carbon arc lamp. Dated 19th century

Illustration of a portable electric drill by Coolet & Engelhard, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 1885, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unknown, Europe

Engraving depicting Tesla's rotary induction motor (1885) which made possible air conditioning and the large-scale distribution of electricity. Cylinder of bar conductors surrounded by electromagnetic coils. The motor used Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction (1832).

Diagram of an experiment conducted by John Tyndall (1820-1893) an Irish physicist, to prove the wave nature of light and heat by using polarised infra-red radiation. Dated 19th Century

A photochronograph made by Etienne-Jules Marey, camera circa 1870, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact origina...

An engraving depicting the mechanism of the Drummond light (limelight or oxy-hydrogen light). Dated 19th century

Morse receiver, german Normalfarbschreiber, 1880, historical woodcut, Germany, Europe

First model of Edison's Phonograph c1877 (c1880). Artist: Anon

The saccharimeter, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1877.

Engraving depicting Clarke's hand-powered generator

Historical graphic representation, technical drawing, steam engine, piston heat engine, the contained thermal energy or pressure in steam is transformed into mechanical work, 19th Century, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1890

Duerden's woodpecker telegraph. 1872.

Crusher four-cylinder, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

Engraving depicting William Woodnut Griscom's small electric motor used to drive a sewing machine.

Historical illustration of gas engines, Otto horizontal valve engine, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century.

Mechanism of indicator (receiver) of Breguet's dial telegraph. 1891.

Cutting the broken telescope, vintage engraving. Cutting the broken telescope, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678748

Large cylinders for dividing bulk land, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

GPO telegraph transmitter. Shown at the International Electric Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. 1882.

Automatic eccentric press, produced by Erdmann Kircheis, Aue, Germany, machine for processing lamellae for magnets and dynamos, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1898.

Torchlight horse race. after of a white marble vase was found Pergamum, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque (1882).

Paraffin bath for infiltrating tissues in paraffin, vintage engraved illustration.

Meyer's autographic telegraph. The image to be dispatched was written on metallised paper with insulating ink and placed round a metal cylinder. A metal stylus moved over the dispatch from side to side; and as contact was made and broken by the ink; impulses were sent to receiving station where a second stylus reproduced the image on paper impregnated with potassium Ferro cyanide. 1874.

Diagram of the apparatus used by Moncoq-Mathieu for transfusing blood Date: 1874

Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone (1875), exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876.

Clocks: sundials and other helio-observational equipment. Engraving by T. Jefferys.

Elektrische Generatoren im 19. Jahrhundert, Gramme, aus dem Jahre 1870, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhunder...

Steam engines of the 19th century, Woolf's steam engine by Escher, Wyss & Co, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Engraving depicting a Gramme generator for electric lighting

An engraving depicting William Harcourt's standard light which used pentane. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. Dated 19th century

Laterna magica, magic lantern or skiopticon is a projection device that was widespread throughout Europe from the 17th to the 20th century / Laterna magica, Zauberlaterne oder Skioptikon ist ein Projektionsgerät, das vom 17. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein in ganz Europa verbreitet war, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Horizontal petroleum engine, constructed by JM Grob & Co from Leipzig, around 1886, historical, digitally enhanced reproduction of a 19th century model.

Buchbindereimaschinen 1890: Beschneidemaschine, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht b...

Group calorigenic Sturtevant, with fan control via pulley, vintage engraving. Group calorigenic Sturtevant, with fan control via pulley, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10648259

An engraving depicting a centrifugal cream extractor. Dated 19th century

Vertical gas engine with coupled pump, produced by Langen & Wolf, illustration by Richard Brend'amour from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1898.

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler

Engraving depicting Abbe Nollet's static electric machine.

Electricity: J. Cuthbertson's electro-static generator. Engraving, 1804, by W. Lowry.

Engraving depicting an early x-ray equipment being using used on a frog. Dated 20th century

Linotype machine, historical illustration, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopedia, 1897

Electrical engineering, self-exciting influencing machine, designed after Windhurst by Robert Voß, Berlin, Germany / Elektrotechnik, selbsterregende Influenzmaschine, nach Windhurst konstruiert von Robert Voß, Berlin, Deutschland, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Hollerith tabulator which used a punched card memory system. First used in the US census of 1890. Engraving, Paris, 1894

Engraving depicting Edison's commutator.

Heating wines, vintage engraving. Heating wines, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679424

Ausrüstung für die Fleischverarbeitung 1894: Fleischzerkleinerer, Fleischwürfelschneider, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus ...

An engraving depicting a stereoscopic viewer with prismatic lenses, based on Brewster's design. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting an air condenser. A condenser is an apparatus or item of equipment used to condense. Dated 19th Century

Electric radial drill, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1893.

Engraving depicting a gyroscope, a device consisting of a wheel or disc mounted so that it can spin rapidly about an axis which is itself free to alter in direction. Dated 19th Century

Einrahmen-Dampfhammer, 19. Jahrhundert, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Historical illustration of gas engines, 19th century: Otto's horizontal engine, single-cylinder, with slide control, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century illustration

Sandblasting machine from the late XIX century. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1893

Edisons Chemical Telephone. Engraving originally published 1879 in Scribners Magazine

Illustration showing Centrifugal pump by J. & H. Gwynne, Hammersmith Iron Works, London. 1890

Goldbergbau 1890, Tellerofen zur Destillation des Amalgams, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Illustration showing Cam wheel 1673

Loaded Field Ballist, was a Roman throwing machine at the time of Caesar, 1800, woodcut, Italy, Europe

Engraving depicting a stereoscopic camera with a single shutter operating in front of both lenses. Dated 19th Century

Steam engine, rotating machine, developed by Behrens, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century.

Drive train, movement of a spindle clock, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date not known

Engraving depicting a Peltier electrometer with horizontally traversing copper bar.

Illustration depicting Alexander Graham Bell's Dead Ear Phonautograph, where sounds directed to the mouthpiece caused membrane, modelled on the action of the human ear, to vibrate, so moving a stylus which drew tracings on smoked glass. Dated 19th Century

Engraving depicting a stereoscopic camera with a single shutter operating in front of both lenses. Dated 19th Century

CLARKE MAGNETO-ELECTRICAL APPARATUS. Engraving 19th century.

Device for studying the opacity of bodies to Hertzian waves. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1899

Geladener Feldballist, war eine römische Wurfmaschine zur Zeit Cäsars, digitale verbesserte Reproduktion eines Originaldrucks aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Engraving depicting the first Edison phonograph.. The phonograph was invented in 1877, for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound by Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison (1847-1931) an American inventor and businessman. Dated 19th century

Propeller battery

Preparation of aluminum chloride, vintage engraving. Preparation of aluminum chloride, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1869. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678485

Frame saw by Kirchner, historic image, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopedia, 1897

Filing machine, produced by Dubosc, Turin, Italy, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1909.

The microphonograph of Francois Dussaud (1870-1953) is a Swiss physicist and inventor, known for his work in the field of sound recording. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1897

The lathe ends, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1853.

Engraving depicting Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff's commutator for reversing a current.

The Wimshurst machine is an electrostatic generator, a machine for generating high voltages developed by British inventor James Wimshurst (1832-1903) Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

Portable circle by Edward Troughton, English maker of astronomical instruments. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.

Evacuating bell jar to examine effect on animal in it. Robert Boyle's second air pump c1660. Edition of Boyle's work published 1725. Engraving

Steam Engine 1836.

Spencer's Large Trunnion Microscope Drawing.

Schreibtelegraf von Siemens und Halske aus dem Jahre 1850 / Siemens and Halske typewriter telegraph from 1850, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Single-frame steam hammer, 19th century, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century pattern

A sectional view of a mitrator for commercial production of nitro-glycerine. Dated 19th century

Aeronautical navigation device, Appareil de Navigation Aerienne, System Kaufmann, detail, 1869, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an origin...

Machine beaten with lotz, vintage engraving. Machine beaten with lotz, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674174

A patent 3-cylinder oscillating steam engine for marine use. Designed by John Scott Russell (1808-1882) a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder. Dated 19th Century

Telegraphy in the 19th century: Electromotive copying telegraph by S. P. Denison, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

das erste Telefon, erfunden von Johann Philipp Reis im Jahres 1860 / the first telephone, invented by Johann Philipp Reis in 1860, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Illustration depicting the Columbian hand printing press, invented by George Clymer of Philadelphia. Power was applied to the plate by means of a compound lever. Dated 19th century

Dynamo machine for lighting the Hotel Continental in Paris, France. Old illustration by Louis Poyet (1846-1913) from La Nature 1887

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