Machinery Collection (#8)

Woman spinning with a Jersey Wheel, 1836
3479122 Woman spinning with a Jersey Wheel, 1836; (add.info.: Woman spinning with a Jersey Wheel - used for wool and cotton)

Arkwright's water frame spinning machine, 1878
3480202 Arkwright's water frame spinning machine, 1878; (add.info.: Diagram of Arkwright's water frame; 1878. The water frame is the name given to a water-powered spinning frame which was an)

A foot treadle floor loom, from the magazine The World and His Wife, pub.1907
3502688 A foot treadle floor loom, from the magazine The World and His Wife, pub.1907; (add.info.: A foot treadle floor loom, from the magazine The World and His Wife)

James Watt Steam engine, 1884
3508030 James Watt Steam engine, 1884; (add.info.: James Watt Steam engine produced in Birmingham, England for Sewage pumping 1884.); Universal History Archive

A Nottingham stocking weaver
2602719 A Nottingham stocking weaver; (add.info.: A Nottingham stocking weaver seated at a knitting frame. Engraving published London, 1846.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Barber's shop fitted with rotary hairbrushes
2602584 Barber's shop fitted with rotary hairbrushes; (add.info.: Barber's shop fitted with rotary hairbrushes powered by belt and shafting)

Barber brushing a client's hair
2602583 Barber brushing a client's hair; (add.info.: Barber brushing a client's hair with Willoughby's rotary hairbrush powered by a treadle fitted beneath the salon chair)

Small boy using a machine to cut flax stalks
2602658 Small boy using a machine to cut flax stalks; (add.info.: Small boy using a machine to cut flax stalks into uniform lengths for heckling, one of the processes in the production of linen)

An elastic mill, Leicester, England: Covering rubber with silk thread on the weaving beam
2602648 An elastic mill, Leicester, England: Covering rubber with silk thread on the weaving beam.; (add.info.: An elastic mill, Leicester, England, Winding rubber filament)

Calico printing: cylinder machine by Mather & Platt
2602641 Calico printing: cylinder machine by Mather & Platt, ; (add.info.: Calico printing, cylinder machine by Mather & Platt, normally used to print in 18 colours but capable of printing in 20)

George Moore's steam man
2604086 George Moore's steam man; (add.info.: George Moore's steam man. Petrol - fired boiler operated a 1/2 hp engine. Exhaustexhaust through helmet, steam exhaust through cigar)

Examples of book binding and book binding tools and machinery from the 18th and 19th centuries
3253036 Examples of book binding and book binding tools and machinery from the 18th and 19th centuries; (add.info.: Examples of book binding and book binding tools and machinery from the 18th)

Women making up sewing thread into balls, 1845
3478860 Women making up sewing thread into balls, 1845; (add.info.: Women making up sewing thread into balls, London, circa 1845.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Coal cutting machine on rails, 1880 (engraving)
864509 Coal cutting machine on rails, 1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Coal cutting machine on rails, powered by compressed air produced by a steam engine at the pithead)

Mine being drained by a rag-and-chain pump powered by overshot water wheel. At right is detail of section of pipe K
531489 Mine being drained by a rag-and-chain pump powered by overshot water wheel. At right is detail of section of pipe K. From Agricola De re metallica, Basle, 1556.; Universal History Archive/UIG

Inside the turret, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho)
STC400489 Inside the turret, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone, David Muirhead (1876-1953); Private Collection; (add.info)

The alignment room in a 19th century printing works. From The Century Magazine, published 1887
2603537 The alignment room in a 19th century printing works. From The Century Magazine, published 1887

Illustration depicting a shearing machine (lawn mower) invented by Edward Beard Budding
5309418 Illustration depicting a shearing machine (lawn mower) invented by Edward Beard Budding; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a shearing machine (lawn mower) invented by Edward Beard Budding

Mowing corn with the scythe
6266207 Mowing corn with the scythe; (add.info.: Mowing corn with the scythe. From The Book of the Farm by Scottish farmer and agriculturalist Henry Stephens, 1795-1874)

Garrett's portable combined thrashing-machine
6266194 Garrett's portable combined thrashing-machine; (add.info.: Garrett's portable combined thrashing-machine in perspective)

Samuelson's Gardener's cylindrical turnip-slicer
6266191 Samuelson's Gardener's cylindrical turnip-slicer; (add.info.: Samuelson's Gardener's cylindrical turnip-slicer)

The refining of cornflour
5307641 The refining of cornflour.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the refining of ground corn (maize) which produced cornflour within the Brown and Polson's Cornflour factory, Paisley

A milking machine invented by Edward M Knolling
5311971 A milking machine invented by Edward M Knolling; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a milking machine invented by Edward M. Knolling of Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York)

A turnip drill
5311964 A turnip drill; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a turnip drill. Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

A pneumatically operated perforating machine for Morse electric telegraphs
5311724 A pneumatically operated perforating machine for Morse electric telegraphs; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a pneumatically operated perforating machine for Morse electric telegraphs)

Engraving depicting two young boys experimenting with an electrical machine
5309433 Engraving depicting two young boys experimenting with an electrical machine; (add.info.: Engraving depicting two young boys experimenting with an electrical machine)

Sectional view of Sautter and Lemonnier's projector, fitted to French warships
5310267 Sectional view of Sautter and Lemonnier's projector, fitted to French warships; (add.info.: Sectional view of Sautter and Lemonnier's projector, fitted to French warships)

Warping frame for fine cotton yarn
2602764 Warping frame for fine cotton yarn; (add.info.: Warping frame for fine cotton yarn used in the production of Muslin. Engraving, London, 1851.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Frame knitting: Stocking frame and details of its mechanism
2602720 Frame knitting: Stocking frame and details of its mechanism.; (add.info.: Frame knitting, Stocking frame and details of its mechanism)

Hydraulic coal cutting machine
2604098 Hydraulic coal cutting machine; (add.info.: Hydraulic coal cutting machine, named "The Iron Man", in position on rail track underground in a coal seam)

Theatrophone, 1892
3479256 Theatrophone, 1892; (add.info.: Theatrophone coin in the slot machine by Des for use with Marinotich and Svarvady's Theatrophone system. Dated 1892.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Maxon & Co Patent carpet loom, 1862
3479222 Maxon & Co Patent carpet loom, 1862; (add.info.: Maxon & Co Patent carpet loom. Dated 1862.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Cotton carding machine, 1865
3479135 Cotton carding machine, 1865; (add.info.: Cotton carding machine, from James Wylde. London, dated 1865.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Cotton carding engine, 1866
3479130 Cotton carding engine, 1866; (add.info.: Cotton carding engine: this machine brushed and separated the cotton fibres. London, dated 1866.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Carpet manufacture, 1843
3479017 Carpet manufacture, 1843; (add.info.: Carpet manufacture, Glasgow: combing wheel which brought the fibres parallel to each other ready for spinning, London)

Singeing machine, 1872
3479015 Singeing machine, 1872; (add.info.: Singeing machine, Boutarell dye works, Clichy-la-Garenne. London, 1872.); Universal History Archive/UIG

The paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern, 1850
3330761 The paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration of the paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern)

The paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern, 1850
3330739 The paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration of the paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern)

The paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern, 1850
3330732 The paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration of the paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern)

Stocking-frame weaver at work
2602749 Stocking-frame weaver at work; (add.info.: Stocking-frame weaver at work on a treadle operated machine. Engraving, London, c1880.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Mechanical dyeing process in operation
2602745 Mechanical dyeing process in operation; (add.info.: Mechanical dyeing process in operation at Messrs Markendales, Salford, Lancashire, England)

Linen manufacture
2602653 Linen manufacture; (add.info.: Linen manufacture, Carding engine and roving machine by P. Borrie of Dundee, Scotland. Engraving, Glasgow, 1888.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Women operating a spinning machine to reel silk in a textile silk mill, 1843
3478863 Women operating a spinning machine to reel silk in a textile silk mill, 1843; (add.info.: Women operating a spinning machine to reel silk in a textile silk mill, Derby, England)

Engraving depicting women at a paper machine
3523200 Engraving depicting women at a paper machine; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a women at a paper machine); Universal History Archive/UIG

Engraving depicting a woman at a paper machine
3523198 Engraving depicting a woman at a paper machine; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a woman at a paper machine); Universal History Archive/UIG

The miller Samuel Wood, whose arm and scapula were torn off when entangled in a rope attached to the moving mill
526834 The miller Samuel Wood, whose arm and scapula were torn off when entangled in a rope attached to the moving mill machinery (1737)

Germain Sommeiller's (1815-1871) compressed air rock drill used in the Mont Cenis and St Gothard railway tunnels
530610 Germain Sommeiller's (1815-1871) compressed air rock drill used in the Mont Cenis and St Gothard railway tunnels. Sommeiller engineer of Mont Cenis tunnel

Hellard's patent Victoria side-delivery reaping and mowing machine, 1860
1577552 Hellard's patent Victoria side-delivery reaping and mowing machine, 1860; (add.info.: Hellard's patent Victoria side-delivery reaping and mowing machine)

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