Industry Collection (page 4)

Disinfecting Apparatus
Apparatus for separate on - and dissipation

Colonial Printing Press
Antique illustration of a Colonial Printing Press

Matches making machine, cutting machine
Machinery for making matches. There is a peeling machine, a cutting machine, a cleaning machine, a machine for arranging the matches neatly, a loading machine, and finally

Matches making machine, cleaning machine
Machinery for making matches. There is a peeling machine, a cutting machine, a cleaning machine, a machine for arranging the matches neatly, a loading machine, and finally

Chocolate making machine, melangeur
Illustration of a chocolate making machine, melangeur

Linotype machine
Illustration of a Linotype machine

Greenland Whale Fishery
An engraving of a whale fishing boat off the coast of Greenland, circa 1800. Men in smaller boats surround and harpoon a large whale and are helped by men from the larger ship

Leadville District, Colorado
Illustration of Leadville District, a busy mining town in Colorado, circa 1886. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Hydraulic Mining During The Gold Rush
Hydraulic mining at French Corral, the first historic mining camp to appear along the San Juan Ridge, during the California Gold Rush era, circa 1849. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Pegging Boots By Hand
Engraving shows a shoemaker as he wears an apron, sits on a cobblers bench in his workshop, and pegs a boot by hand, mid to late 19th Century

Old Style Printing Press
A diagram of Applegath and Cowpers improved 1823 printing press, early 19th Century. Augustus Applegath and Edward Cowper provided presses for the Times of London for many years

Gossypium hirsutum, Upland Cotton plant

Black and White illustration of smoke billowing from factory chimneys

Illustration of a quarry

Salt industry on Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
Much of Bonaires Southern half has been made into a giant system of ponds and pools which take seawater and allow incrimental evaporation of the water until the only remaining product is sea salt

Redundant Oil Platforms in Scotland
Redundant North Sea oil platforms anchored in the Cromarty Firth on Scotlands East coast

Industrial Gears / Machinery
A composited, computer-enhanced photograph of weather-beaten, early 20th century farm machinery

glass laboratory flasks
Glass flasks with liquid as used in research and science labs for scientific, medical, and chemical analysis and research

Steel Works
18th October 1966: A row of houses with steelworks in the background at Ebbw Vale, Wales. (Photo by Gerry Cranham/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Water Power
Water inlet pipes at Shannon hydro-electric power station, Ireland

Timber harvesting, timber, spruces lying on the road, cleared area behind, Wipperfuerth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Potash slag heap near Fulda, Neuhof, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Old machinery in an old abandoned factory in Rijeka, Croatia, Europe

Pile of discarded metal straps at a scrap metal recycling centre, Quebec, Canada

Brick elevator at a construction site

Young man walking on deserted railway

Woman operating machine in factory, (B&W)

Young woman in overalls working by lathe in factory, (B&W)

Oil Rigs
The Kingsnorth UK oil rig, anchored off Tilbury

Working Bobbins
3rd July 1948: A barefoot girl doffer in a steamy wet spinning mill where Irish linen is produced. Her work is to change the bobbins in the spinning frames

Highway construction
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Super-highway construction site. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Oil well and derrick
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Oil well with wooden derrick, near Houston, Texas. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Factory smokestacks
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Steel industry, factory smokestacks, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Doll Mould
15th December 1951: Parts of a doll in an injection mould at Cascelloids factory at Leicester. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5617 - Toys Are Big Business - pub

Steel Mill
1st May 1955: Men working at the furnaces of a Sheffield steel mill. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8067 - Importance Of Yorkshire - unpub. (Photo by Joseph McKeown/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Peat Extraction
24th September 1955: A sixteen-ton disc ditcher harvesting Highland peat for fuel. The peat is milled and prepared before being used as fuel for the construction of the nearby Loch Shin hydroelectric

Dundee in Scotland, as seen from the Law (an extinct volcano rising above the city), circa 1920. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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

Car Design; Fashion Kings Of The Car World
A car plant, 28th September 1956. Original Publication : Picture Post - 8703 - Fashion Kings Of The Car World - pub. 28th September 1956 (Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images)

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

Titanic In Dry Dock
The liner Titanic in dry dock at the Harland and Wolff shipyard, Belfast, February 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Two girls and one boy playing with alphabet building blocks constructing multi story structure
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Two girls and one boy playing with alphabet building blocks constructing multi story structure

Exhibition buildings to world exhibitions in the 19th century
Exhibition buildings and floor plans of world exhibitions in the 19th century: 1) Paris 1855, Industry building; 2) Paris 1855, detail from the floor plan; 3) Paris 1867, floor plan; 4) Vienna 1873

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