Machinery Collection (page 11)

Channel Tunnel
21st January 1975: The view from inside the Channel Tunnel under construction at Shakespeares Cliff. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Pipework
circa 1965: Oil rig components waiting to be lifted during construction at Nigg Bay, at the eastern end of the Cromarty Firth

Theatre Construction
21st January 1930: Construction work on Jack Buchanans Theatre. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

A Famous Shimmy
circa 1950: A young holidaymaker in Bognor Regis looking at a machine which promises to reveal how Gilda Gray Demonstrates Her Famous Shimmy. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Machine Guns
circa 1940: Machine guns used for aeroplanes, awaiting shipment from a converted automobile plant in America. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Power shovel
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Power shovel with jaws open, view from below. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Excavation At Penn Station
View of the excavation site at Pennsylvania Station, New York, New York, early 1930s. A Greyhound bus station is being built over the train tracks. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Cathedral Of St. John The Divine
View of the construction of the nave of Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, New York, 1920s. Begun in 1892, construction on the Cathedral of St

Ship Building Strike
1st April 1957: A vessel under construction at the Burrow-in-Furness shipyard where work has stopped during a strike. Original Publication

Goal Scoring Machine
1st December 1951: Arthur Milton of Arsenal aims a shot at a novel goal-scoring machine during a training session. Milton also plays cricket for Gloucestershire

Austin Engines
3rd April 1948: Engines suspended from a monorail at the Austin Motor Companys Birmingham production plant which exports many cars to America

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

Belfast Ship Yard
20th February 1954: The Harland and Wolff ship yard in Belfast where a liner is being built. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7029 - The Best And The Worst Of Some British Cities 5 - Belfast

Flemish Weavers
Flemish weavers working in a shop in Manchester where they have settled, 1363. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Weaving Pair
Two fifteenth century textile weavers working on a loom, there is a large spider in a web above them, circa 1450. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Loom Weaving
A woman at work on a large loom, late sixteenth century. She is holding the shuttle in her hand and operating the loom with foot pedals. Original artist Crispin de Passe

Loom Worker
A man smoking a pipe while at work on a large loom during the eighteenth century. He is holding the shuttle in his hand and operating the machine with foot pedals

Making Hay
A Litelift hay elevator during rick-making, circa 1930. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

South African Mine
A gold mine and diamond field near Capetown, South Africa, 1867. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Kimberley Diamond Mine
The Central Companys shaft at the Kimberley diamond mine in South Africa, 1888. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Gold Miners At Ballarat
Gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, circa 1855. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Irrigation Methods
A frieze depicting Egyptians using the water from the Nile for irrigation, circa 2000 BC. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Flemish Weaving Family
A Flemish couple working on a loom while their child turns the wheel, 14th century. From the Book of Trades, Ypres. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dutch Loom Workers
A group of Dutch women at work on a large loom, circa 1695. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Weavers And Spinners
Weaving and spinning - an illustration from the book Orbis Pictus (the world in pictures) by Johannes Amos Comenius. Published in 1657, it is considered the first childrens book

Crushing Sugar Cane
Plantation workers crushing sugar cane, circa 1822. In the background, workers are boiling down the juice. Original publication: First Appendix to Report on East India Sugar, 1822

Centrifugal swing machine, wood engraving, published in 1880
Centrifugal swing machine for demonstration of forces in rotational movements. Wood engraving, published in 1880

Cotton Factory
Textile workers in a British cotton factory, where processes include carding, drawing and roving. Engraving by J Cart after an original work by T Allom, circa 1840

Coal Whimsey
An engine drawing coal, or a coal whimsey, at the Staffordshire Collieries. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sea Bathing
A huddle of bathing machines trundle into the sea at Scarborough, allowing demure tourists to swim in total privacy. Original Artwork

Steam Hammer
James Naysmiths invention, the steam hammer, in operation at an iron foundry. Original Artwork: From a painting by Naysmith himself. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mermaids At Brighton
Women venturing into the water from bathing machines drawn up to the sea at Brighton. They are clad in voluminous bathing dresses

Welsh Quarry
A black marble quarry near Red Wharf Bay in Anglesea. Original Artwork: Aquatint by William Daniell (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Conservatoire Des Arts Et Metiers
The Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, 1863. It was founded in 1794, during the French Revolution, as an institute of higher education

Nearly Finished; Construction of Hellgate Bridge, New York City
Circa 1917, Construction of Hellgate Bridge, New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Goose-Necked Cranes
circa 1950: Goose-necked cranes tower above the George V dock at the Port of London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Almost Ready
5th March 1936: The great transatlantic passenger liner SS Queen Mary nears completion at a shipyard on Clydebank, Scotland

Building Aquitania
21st December 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys shipyard at Clydebank near Glasgow

Riveting Work during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania
circa 1911: Construction workers using hydraulic riveting machinery during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Building A Liner
circa 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys Clydebank shipyard. The Aquitania took three years to build and was launched in 1914 weighing 45

Scottish Shipyard
circa 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania surrounded by scaffolding while under construction at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

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