Historical Textile and Engineering Tools

A collection of 19th-century engravings showcasing machinery for textile production, carpentry tools, and lifting gear, highlighting intricate designs and mechanical mechanisms.

Lehman Machine Company saw and dado machine , Saws

Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

Engineering: lifting gear with block and tackle. Engraving by T. Bradley.

Carpentry: a treadle-operated lathe, with an assortment of tools for turning. Engraving by N. L. Rousseau ? after Gallet ?.

Engraving depicting a water wheel operating bellows by means of a crank rod (C,G,). As the axel turns the rod (D,F,) pivots at (E,), opening and closing bellows. Dated 19th century

Bleaching: racks and cauldrons for drying bleached cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.

Metal casting equipment: open sand casting 1, trowel 2, ramming tool 4, lifting screw 5, sand casting between flasks 6, cog wheel casting 7-10, and moulds for loam casting 11-13. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1809.

Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Side elevation (top) and plan (bottom) of a paper mill: both lettered for a key. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1816, after J. Farey the younger.

Beating-out machine (Shoe-Machinery Manufacturing Co.) ; Spear's sole-channeling machine ; Sole-cutting machine ; Sole-finishing tool. Prints. 1884. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Machinery, Shoe machinery, Shoe industry, Shoemaking

Lehman Machine Company saw and dado machine , Saws

Hydraulics: siphon, pumps, and a beam pump. Engraving c.1861.

Counterweight machines for throwing darts and stones from Lipsius and others. One double that fires a stone from a sling. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale, London, 1812.

Furnishings: carpet manufacture, Roman chair, Egyptian chair, Persian sitting room.. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Furnishings

Engine by Messrs. Boulton & Watt, Of Soho, Birmingham.Erected for Messrs, Whitbread & Co., 1785, As of thirty-five horse power. Altered in 1795, and increased in power. Removed 1887.This Beam Engine is housed in another building, but can be seen on application to the Chief Attendant. April 25, 1938.

Engineering: six steam engines. Engraving c.1861.

Fowler's patent draining plough.

Flax processing. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Textile industry, Flax

Different types of chains and clay mills. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.

J.A. Fay & Co. band sawing machine , Saws

A Drilling Machine for Stone, 1878, Historic, Digital Reproduction of an Original 19th century Artwork

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Ship-building: elevations and long section of a ship-board steam engine. Engraving.

Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.

Farming: a patented steam-driven threshing machine. Wood engraving, 1862.

Joseph L Boyd, Wheelwright's Drill, 1935 1942 Wheelwright's Drill

J.A. Fay & Co. band sawing machine , Saws

Fig. CXXIV. Haustrum, & antlergon.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Waterwheels, Water pumps, Gearing

American Excavator. Original caption: Institute of Civil Engineers Proceedings - Vol. IV - p. 400 Session 1845.

Schönherr, Louis: Wilhelm Schöngerer Loom for power company. Print according to drawing of 1836. Off: The Saxon loom factory (Louis Schönherr). Chemnitz once and now. Chemnitz 1927, page 10

How the hose fire sprayer and pump must be stored in the fire spray house after use, approx. 1695. A show how the hose fire and pump must be stored in the fire spray house after use, with the legend A-Q. Used in the instruction on the correct use and storage of the hose fire sprayers, approx. 1695. Belongs to the top prayer at the fire spa book by Jan van der Heyden.

Printing machinery; bookbinding equipment. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Bookbinding, Printing industry

Hydraulic Systems.

Components of the machinery used in pewter manufacture. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.

The cloth manufacturing: a loom and some loose parts, Willem van Mieris, 1672 - 1747, draughtsman: Willem van Mieris, 1672 - 1747, paper, pen, brush, h 364 mm × w 238 mm

Textiles: details of equipment for ribbon weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after J.-R. Lucotte.

Various type foundry machines, Foundry machines, Historic, digitally improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Plate showing worker at the loom: method to pass the pattern in front. Engraving from Denis Diderot, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, L'Encyclopedie, 1751-1757. Entitled Passementerie (Trimmings).

Clayton's patent tile, brick and pipe machine.

Plate XXVII from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Machien for transferring solid objects from ships to the shore. Boat right, with man. Solid pyramid in chains above, on a crane-like frame run by a man, lower left. With a lever and weights. Description in Latin on verso of 1949-152-234., Lyon, France, 1582, Print, Print

Soierie or silk making preparing warp thread for loom from Recueil de planches sur les sciences et les arts liberaux ;Livorno, 1776.

Three different furnaces used in the processing of copper. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.

Machinery: a pile driver, a fire engine, and a steam engine. Engraving by J. W. Lowry after P. Barlow.

Water pipe boiler installed in the workshops of Societe Cycles Gladiator, Le Pre-Saint-Gervais, France, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1895.

Iron: various machines involved in the Bessemer process of steel manufacture. Engraving c.1861.

Seven workers making needles in a workshop in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

N.N., Railway and Road Bridge over the Oberhafen, Hamburg. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V. Ministry of Public Work, JG (1907-1907): Views drive machine. Pressure on paper, 30 x 45.9 cm (incl. Scan edges) N.N. : Eisenbahn- und Straßenbrücke über den Oberhafen, Hamburg. (Aus: Atlas zur Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, hrsg. v. Ministerium der öffentlichen Arbeiten, Jg. 57, 1907)

Heavy three bowl friction calender driven by clutch.. Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co.. Textiles, Illustrations, Design drawings. 1902. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection

Machinery: a pipe-boring drill, and a pile-driving hammer. Engraving by A. Bell.

Components of the electromechanical telegraph network. Process print.

Porcelain-lined, French bath with supply fittings ... hardwood rim. Pl. 49-G. Porcelain-lined, galvanized or painted French bath. Pl. 50-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Manufacture of cables and machinery used. Engraving.

Longitudinal section of the Boulton & Watt engine erected at the East London Water Works, Old Ford / Thomas Wicksteed ; G. Gladwin.

Textiles: types of mechanical carpet loom. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Duncan.

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Sheet with two performances. LEFT Three different phases from the head of sides weave: wind winds, shaving the wires and weaving. On the right, two phases from the production of silk thread are shown: the wires of twijnen on the twin machine and the litter of thread to a sphere.

Machinery: metal plating presses. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.

Embroidering. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Embroidery

Engineering: three-quarter views of two drilling machines, one with multiple heads. Engraving, c.1861.

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Textiles: silk-spinning equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry after Farey.

Men at work in a cotton factory in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Hydraulics: section and details of the Bramah hydrostatic press. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.

Textiles: a loom for braid manufacture. Engraving by R. Benard after J.-R. Lucotte.

Three males are shown operating the Cotton Carding machine. Used to create a single - long strand of material, rather than clumps. machine. Dated 1851

American Excavator. Original caption: American Excavator. Copied from Institution of Civil Engineers Proceedings - Vol. IV - p 401 - Session 1845.

Industrial equipment for ice production, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1054, Volume XLI, May 9, 1863.

Wool: merino sheep, wool processing machinery and teazle.. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Wool industry, Sheep

Fig. XCVII. Antlergon, quadruplex. Antlia duplex.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Waterwheels, Fountains, Water pumps

Men and women harvesting hemp in 18th century France. Some of them are threshing hemp. Date: Circa 1760

Improved machinery for use working coal mines. Etching by J. Pass.

'A Smock Mill', (1931). Artist: Charles Henry Bourne Quennell.

Diestel Georg (1854-1926), kitchen, machine and workshop building of the Charité, Berlin (1901): machine and workshop building chimney: floor plans, cuts, view 1: 100. Lithograph colored on cardboard, 73.1 x 51.7 cm (including scan edges) Diestel Georg (1854-1926): Küchen-, Maschinen- und Werkstättengebäude der Charité, Berlin

Ship-building: ropes, blocks, and rigging. Engraving.

Block-frame used by nail makers in the Dudley area of Worcestershire (West Midlands). After the introduction of machine-made nails in 1830 this cottage industry, which employed 50,000, went into decline.

Chain pump for steam engine operation by Jung & Must in Halle, historical, digitally improved reproduction from an original around 1860.

A photograph showing an aeroplane engine being manufactured by the Hall-Scott Motor Car Co. Inc. in San Francisco, California. This engine model is used in military aircraft during World War One. This photo was taken on September 12, 1918, and is classified as "For Official Use Only."

Corn mill powered by a horizontal water wheel through the gears in central section.The pipe, the wheel, the shafts, and the gearing all constructed from wood. From 'Theatrum Machinarum Novum' by Georg Andreas Bockler (Nuremberg, 1673).

Silk industry: spinning, winding, doubling and throwing machines.. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Silk industry

Cotton: spinning machinery, factory, Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule.. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Spinning machinery, Cotton industry, Crompton, Samuel, 1753-1827

American Excavator. Original caption: Copied from Journal of the Franklin Institute - Third Series - V - 1843.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Promoting safety work. 28. Security straw chopping machines; rules Landwirtschaftliche genoosch. undated

A sectional view of a flour mill powered by an undershot water wheel. Dated 19th century

Steam nozzle. Photo of a tap, stuck on cardboard, in red lined frame with text under and up at which client E.D. manufactured for the port of Tandjong Prique. Inscription; b. and o.: 'Gebr. Figee - Haarlem - Holland '.

Threshing machine designed by William Foster & Co Ltd. an agricultural machinery company based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England and usually just called 'Fosters of Lincoln.' Dated 19th Century

Scaffolding and step ladder for painting large paintings. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.

An engraving depicting a hydraulic press. Material to be compressed is placed on a plate which is raised and lowered by a piston, P which descends into the tank of water, B. B is connected to a force pump (right) using a leaden tube, K. When the pump handle, M, is operated and water is taken up from the reservoir, A, the pressure in B rises, lifting the piston, P, and compressing blades. Dated 19th century

Continuoous production of paper from pulp, left, to finished product, right. Engraving 1866.

Wrought-Iron high-pressure steaming cottage.. Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co.. Textiles, Illustrations, Design drawings. 1902. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection

Illustration showing Riveting machine by William Fairbairn (1789-1874).

Landwirtschaft, verschiedene Maschinen für den Anbau und Ernte von Kartoffeln, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus...

Fittings for Inodoro and Triplex. Plates 85-D to 92-D.. text. Illustrations. 1884. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Graphic depiction, technical processing of iron in different blast furnaces, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia, 1889

Husqvarna Weapon Factory Chronology.ur Carl Sahlin Mountain History Collection.

N.N., cast steel factory Friedrich Krupp, Essen (1873): View long 30.5 cm cannon in coastal laffe. Photo on cardboard, 47.2 x 61.9 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Gussstahlfabrik Friedrich Krupp, Essen

Ship-building: a forge (top), details (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.

boiler's furnace

Baxter Machine Company swing saw , Saws

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Promoting safety work. 29. Security straw chopping machines; rules Landwirtschaftliche genoosch. undated

Mills and milling machines, rice plant, bread. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Mills, Milling machines, Rice, Bread

Sections of a furnace used in the processing of copper. Engraving.

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