Industrial Revolution Collection

Industrial Revolution in the 1800s - scanned 1878 engraving

Victorian London - A shady place
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A dark alley in Whitechapel circa 1870

Mass Production
Full-length image of auto workers lowering the body of a Model T onto its chassis on an assembly line ramp outdoors at the Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, Michigan

Paternoster lift, usage and drive wheels, wood engravings, published 1888
Schematic representation of use, and the drive wheels of a paternoster lift. Created by Peter Hart (British engineer). Wood engravings, published in 1888

Stream Train built in, Crewe Locomotive Works, 1892
Vintage engraving of a Stream Train built at the London and North Western Locomotive Works, at Crewe, 1892, 19th Century

The railway viaduct at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
Royal Border Bridge: 19th Century railway viaduct reflected in the river Tweed, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK

American barrel organ with inside mechanism, wood engravings, published 1888
American barrel organ with punched tape technique - Automatic musical instrument from the 19th century. Right side: The inside mechanism. Wood engravings, published in 1888

Rectification Device
Antique illustration of a DesireSavalles device for rectifying alcohol

Steam locomotives from the 19th century, wood engravings, published 1897
Steam locomotives from the 19th century, top: 1-2) Express locomotive " Rittinger" of the Austrian Southern Railway with longitudinal section (1) and horizontal section (2)

Steam locomotive by George Stephenson, 1814
Illustration of a Steam locomotive by George Stephenson, 1814

Early moving pictures - running man and rider, published 1897
Movements of a man and a horse with rider: 1) Runner (Ten pictures in one second); 2) Gallop of a horse with rider (after the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, 1830 - 1904)

Botallack Mine, Cornwall
Vintage engraving showing Botallack Tin Mine, Cronwall, 1878

SS Great Western at New York
Vintage engraving showing the arrival of the SS Great Western at New York. SS Great Western of 1838, was an oak-hulled paddle-wheel steamship; the first purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic

Westinghouse generators, Hydroelectric power station, Niagara Falls, USA, published 1898
5.000 HP Westinghouse generators at Edward Dean Adams Power Plant in Niagara Falls, the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world, built in 1895

Diagram of a Laval steam turbine, Victorian Swedish engineering, 1890s, 19th Century history technology
Vintage illustration of Diagram of a Laval steam turbine, Victorian Swedish engineering, 1890s, 19th Century history technology. German text

Gustaf de Laval steam turbine, Victorian Swedish engineering, 1890s, 19th Century history technology
Vintage illustration of a Gustaf de Laval steam turbine, Victorian Swedish engineering, 1890s, 19th Century history technology. German text

Coal Mine
Vintage engraving showing a cross section of a coal mine, 1864

Coal miners, wood engraving, published in 1877
Workers in the coal mine. Wood engraving, published in 1877

Victorian coal miner pushing a minecart
Victorian vintage engraving of a 19th century coal miner pushing coal in a minecart. The minecart or mine cart (also known as a mine trolley) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway

Viaduct of the Lima Oroya Railway (Peru), published in 1872
Viaduct of the Lima Oroya Railway (Peru), built by the German architect Albert Fink (1827-1897). Woodcut engraving, published in 1872

Victorian London - Docks and The Concordia
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century Victorian London England. Showing London Docks and the ship Concordia

Victorian London - Billingsgate Market
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Billingsgate Fish Market in the morning, Billingsgate was the largest fish market in the world in the Victorian era."

Victorian London - Dudley Street, Seven Dials
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Dudley Street, Seven Dials circa 1870. Street children play in the road."

Victorian London - Second hand clothes market
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Second hand clothes market Gloucester Street, New Cut circa 1870."

Coal mine workings, and Chimney, Leeds, Yorkshire, early 19th Century
High resolution detail from the The Costume of Yorkshire, by George Walker, 1814, The collier. Coal mine workings, and Chimney, Charles Brandling colliery, near Leeds, Yorkshire, early 19th Century

Engraving of man working at a printing machine
18th Century Style, The Media, Men, Printing Plate, Painted Image, Printing Out, Antique, Engraved Image, Woodcut, Illustration and Painting, Pencil Drawing, Image Created 18th Century, Print

Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825, wood engraving, published 1885
The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the worlds first public railway to use steam locomotives, was officially opened on 27 September 1825. Wood engraving, published in 1885

Historical devices for the support of remedial gymnastics, published 1897
Historical devices for the support of remedial gymnastics: 1) Vibration; 2) Side bending of the upper body; 3) Bending the knee; 4) Upper body stretching; 5) Hip knee stretching; 6) Bend forearm; 7

Workshops of Meyers Bibliographic Institute in Leipzig, woodcuts, published 1897
Technical workshops of the Meyers Bibliographic Institute in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Wood engraving, published in 1897

Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), Germany, lithograph, published in 1897
Map of the Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal). The canal is a 95-kilometre (59 mi)

History, Europe, Industrial Revolution, Steam Engines, Fuel, Shovelling Coal, Stoker, Clocks, Efficiency, Frank Lillian Gilbreth, Hand, Laborers, Shoveling, Shovels, Stokers, Stop, Timing, Watches

American Steam Velocipede, three-wheeler by Sauerbronn-Davis, wood engraving, published 1888
American Steam Velocipede. Historical three-wheeler with steam drive by Sauerbronn-Davis from 1883. Wood engraving, published in 1888

Cutting machine
Steam transversely cutting machine

Trevithick Locomotive of 1804
Engraving shows incomplete drawing of Cornish inventor and engineer Richard Trevithick steam locomotive with which he successfully hauled 25 tons of cargo and 36 passengers at Pen y Darren, Wales

Coming To America; Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it
Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it travels from Hamburg to New York, December 10, 1906. The Patricia was built by A.G

Exterior of The White Cloth Hall, Leeds, England Victorian Engraving
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Exterior of The White Cloth Hall, Leeds, England Victorian Engraving from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

History of Textile Industry - Cotton Spinning Machine
Vintage engraving of a diagram of a Cotton Spinning Machine, Drawing and Roving Frames.1880

Steam Locomotive, wood engravings, published in 1877
Steam Locomotive (longitudinal section and horizontal section). Woodcut engraving, published in 1877

Internal combustion engine
Illustration of a internal combustion engine coupled with single-acting pump

Circular Saw - Industrial Revolution Machinery
Vintage engraving from 1860 of a industrial revolution era Circular saw

Steel making - Bessemer process
Antique illustration of a Bessemer process which was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron

Hand printing press
Antique engraving of Printing hand press

Dynamo machine, Edison-Hopkinson, 1883
Antique illustration of a dynamo machine, Edison-Hopkinson, 1883

Phonautograph (c. 1860) by Scott and KAonig, published in 1880
Phonautograph (c. 1860) by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (French printer and bookseller, 1817 - 1879) and Rudolph Koenig (German acoustician, 1832 - 1901)

Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin
Illustration of the original model of Eli Whitneys cotton gin, circa 1800. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Electrostatic generator by Wilhelm Holtz, wood engraving, published in 1880
Electrostatic generator by Wilhelm Holtz (German physicist and invator, 1836 - 1913). An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, a mechanical device that produces static electricity

Gold leaf electroscope (1787) by Bennet, wood engraving, published 1880
Gold leaf electroscope, invanted by Abraham Bennet (English clergyman and physicist, 1749 - 1799) in 1787. This is an instrument for detecting and measuring static electricity or voltage

58 Bagley Avenue
circa 1915: View of the rented garage in which Henry Ford invented and assembled his first automobile, 58 Bagley Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

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