Historical Engineering Methods

Engravings depicting historical machinery and engineering processes, showcasing paper marbling, waterwheels, and steam engines from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Fig. CXLVII. Pneusticum oragnum, cum pondere., 1662, Coloniæ Agrippinæ, Publisher, Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici, Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Bellows, Water pumps, Gearing, Engravings

Ancient History. The catapult. Siege machine used to throw objects from a distance as projectiles. Engraving by Capuz. Later colouration. Historia General de España by Father Mariana. Madrid, 1852. Author: Tomas Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). Spanish engraver and xylograph.

Sectional view of Gay-Lussac's lead chambers and absorption towers, 1870. These were for the large-scale production of sulphuric acid also known as Oil of Vitriol or H2SO4, one of the most important industrial chemicals. Invented in 1827, Gay-Lussac's (1778-1850) method only came into use after the invention by John Glover (1817-1902) of the denitrating tower (E) some thirty years later. From 'Les Merveilles de l'Industrie' by Louis Figuier. (Paris, c1870). Engraving

Pharmaceutical laboratory. Picture of the 'EnciclopŽdie' (1751). Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia).

Anatomicorum instrumentorum delineatio Various medical apparatuses. Geminus, Thomas, d. 1562. Prints, Illustrations, Scientific illustrations. 1545. Rare Book Division. Human anatomy, Anatomy

Several distiller devices with indications 1-17, Jan Luyken, 1689 print Print left and top right marked: fol. 13 - Fig 2. Amsterdam paper etching laboratory (+ tools, instruments; laboratory equipment ~ scientific research). pharmacy, pharmaceutics

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Fig. LXI. Priomylos. Priomylos. Secandis lignis.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Waterwheels, Band saws, Gearing

industry porcelain circular kiln transverse section copper engraving ""Encyclop_die ou Dictionnaire raisonn_ des sciences des arts et des m_tiers"" by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste d'Alembert 1751 - 1780,

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A water powered irrigation pump

Glass Furniture design. Osler Design Pattern Book - 25 Light Alabaster On Ruby Candelabra, 5 Tiers, 1850-1900. Designer: F & C Osler (Ltd).. The Osler Archive, presented by Peter Osler, 1977.

Fig. CXLI. Chochlea quadruplex, cum pateotrocho. Antlia qaudruplex, depressa attollens aquas, ope pateotrochi.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Waterwheels, Fountains, Water pumps

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Elementos de Matematica (Elements of Mathematics), by the Spanish architect and mathematician Benito Bails (1730-1797). Geometric figures. Engraving. Volume I, which treats elements of arithmetic, trigonometry and geometry. Published in Madrid, 1779.

Pharmaceutical laboratory. Picture of the 'EnciclopŽdie' (1751). Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia).

New processing system in the Peltier sugar factory, France, illustration by Smeeton and Tilly from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1624, Volume LXIII, April 11, 1874.

Coal : fossil plants in coal, coal mining. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Coal mining, Coal

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

Planetarium, Nicolaas van Frankendaal, 1759 print Planetarium in the form of a round of wooden box that is decorated with planets and zodiac signs. Print in the middle of it marked: Tom. Vi. XVIII. 7me Leçon. Pl. 2. Amsterdam paper etching orrery, planetarium

Illustration showing French electroplating workshop in the 1860's

Berlin planet reader, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1788 print Berlin paper etching historical persons. astrologer at work. horoscope

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A milling machine

Illustration depicting a fly-wheel and governor of steam engine. Dated 19th century

SLIPSTENT, George Pieter Westenberg, 1801 - 1873 drawing paper. chalk tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: grindstone

Camera obscura: showing how the scene outside was collected by a mirror tilted at 45 degrees(B) passed through a meniscus lens between F and C and the image thrown onto the table below. From 'The Magazine of Science' Vol.I, London 1840

A wine press (top) and cider mill (bottom). Engraving, c. 1747.

The chemical laboratory of Ambrose Godfrey: : the distilling room. Etching attributed to W.H. Toms after H. Gravelot.

Chirurgie. 1-7. Vue et détails de paniers propres au transport des blessés; 8.9. Sarcocéles d'homme et de femme.. Prints, Illustrations. 1817. Rare Book Division. Egypt, Transportation , Egypt, Abnormalities, Human, Medical personnel, Medical equipment & supplies, Larrey, d. J. ,q (Dominique Jean), baron, 1766-1842

A view of a baby chick as if it was in its egg and various stages of the hatching. Date: Circa 1760

The 'Osborne.' Plate 22-A.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Medical, book and drawing of anatomy on paper in antique, vintage or old science textbook with knowledge. Archive, illustration and diagram on parchment with notes, information and study of organ

Illustration for 'The Labor of Mars' by Allain Manesson Mallet. Five mathematical figures (corner calculations). Below you have a mountainous landscape with some buildings. In the top right of the number 132 (= the number of the page in the book to which the illustration is placed).

Engraving depicting a diagram of the dissection of a sacred column. The illustration is set within an ornate frame.

Continuatio ad Manuductionem organicam ..., Fig. VII. Samber, Johann Baptist, 1654-1717. Prints. 1707. Music Division. Solmization, Organ (Musical instrument) , Instruction and study

The amateur chemist's laboratory bench, 1860. The largest item on the bench is a Liebig condenser, apparatus devised the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873). From 'The Laboratory of Chemical Wonders', GW Septimus Piesse, (London, 1860). Coloured lithograph.

Sextant from Le Grand Atlas 1663 Joan Blaeu (1596-1673/ Dutch) Newberry Library, Chicago

An engraving depicting the apparatus used for producing sulphuric acid by the Nordhausen method. Dated 19th century

Hydraulics: a pot filter and a sedimentation trap. Engraving by Mutlow after Blunt.

Beijing Observatory,from a 1674 engraving. Instruments are similar to those used in Europe. Six astronomical instruments, clockwise from top:a sextant, quadrant, horizon circle, ecliptic armillary sphere, celestial globe, equatorial armillary sphere.

Herman O Stroh, Mechanism of Eli Terry Clock, 1940 Mechanism of Eli Terry Clock

Unknown architect, meteorological information column. Monthly competition October 1884 (10.1884): floor plan, ancestry front view, side view; Scale bar. Ink in watercolor and white heighted on paper, 35.2 x 37 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Meteorologische Informationssäule. Monatskonkurrenz Oktober 1884

General properties of bodies: educational plate published Wurtemberg c.1850. Physical principles including Inertia; Centre of gravity; Centrifugal force; Parallelogram of forces; Intensity of light varies inversely as square of distance; etc.

Assaying: Various muffles used in assay ovens for assaying gold and silver 1,2,3: 4,5,6, stopples, bottom plates and covers: 7, wooden mould for forming muffles: 11, 12, bottom and top of assay crucible. From 1683 English edition of Lazarus Ercker 'Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten' originally published in Prague in 1574. Copperplate engraving.

Portable tent type of camera obscura placed on a table so that it could be used to draw the landscape projected down onto sheet of white paper on table. From 'The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences', edited T.H. Crocker, T. Williams and S. Clarke, London, 1764. Engraving

Fig. XIV. Pateomylos, frumentarius pedibus versanda mola.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Flour & meal industry, Gearing

astronomy measuring instruments azimuthal quadrant developed by A. Crueger 1644 colour engraving 17th century private collection,

Engraving depicting a cross-section of the furnace used at Marseilles to convert sodium sulphate to sodium carbonate.

The Marquis of Worcester's engine, 1663. Illustrations. 1830. Rare Book Division. Steam-engines

Six diagrams illustrating an operation for a prolapsed uterus or procidentia. Pen drawing.

ASTRONOMICUM CAESAREUM 1540. CUADRANTE. LIBRO ASTRONOMIA S XVI. Author: PEDRO APIANO (1495-1552). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Cartoon on the appointment of professor J.J. from Oosterzee in Utrecht, 1863; New lighting in Utrecht. Cartoon on the appointment of professor J.J. Van Oosterzee as a professor of theology at the University of Utrecht. A chassinet lit by a candle behind it. Plate appeared at De Nederlandsche Spectator Weekblad, no. 7, 14 February 1863.

An engraving depicting a wash still, containing about 20,000 gallons and heated by fire underneath. 1842

Folio f 11v. Codex Madrid I (Ms. 8937) "Treaty of statics and mechanics", 192 folios with 384 pages. Internal format: 215 x 145 mm. AUTHORS, CHARACTERS. APPLIED MECHANICS (COMPONENTS). PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS, CINEMATICS, DYNAMICS. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA, MADRID. Author: LEONARDO DA VINCI.

Putti with measuring instruments and views of a 3-year and 24-year-old body, Hieronymus Sperling, after Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1723 print In the middle of the top: Fig. 1. paper etching cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. measuring-instruments. human life and its ages (young, adult, old, etc.). standing figure. nude with covered genitals

A chemical laboratory and a table of chemical relations. Engraving by Prévost after L.J. Goussier, 1763.

An engraving depicting apparatus for producing gas from resin. Dated 19th century

GRABADO-MAQUINA PARA CERNIR TABACO. Location: Archivo General de Indias. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

An engraving depicting a cutaway view of a sizeable tropical plant and orchid house. Dated 19th century

Chemistry: a chemical laboratory with many workers (above), symbols of elements arranged in a proto-periodic table () (below). Engraving by R. Bénard.

Bird nets, chest traps, drawnets, and flying or buckled drawnet, pantine, 18th century. Hunter with musket in a blind or hide made of foliage. Plate 1 of Nets and Traps. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Pass after an illustration by J. Stead from William Augustus Osbaldistons The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman and Farmers Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, J. Stead, London, 1792.

$Light: educational plate published Wurtemberg c.1850, showing reflection and refraction, light travelling in straight lines, a burning mirror (13) and Newton's prism experiment (27).$

DESCARTES, Ren_ (1596-1650). French rationalist philosopher, mathematician and scientist. 'Les M_t_ores', work of 1637. Illustration. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library.

ASTRONOMICUM CAESAREUM - 1540 - CUADRANTE - LIBRO DE ASTRONOMIA - RELOJ DE SOL. Author: PEDRO APIANO (1495-1552). Location: UNIVERSIDAD BIBLIOTECA. SALAMANCA. SPAIN.

Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Coloured engraving.

Modern-Style Shelf, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.

Painters and decorators workshop at Menus-Plaisirs, Paris, France, illustration by Renard from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 381, Volume XV, June 15, 1850.

Description: Peking Observatory. Location: China Date: 1889-1891 china, asia, astronomy, armillary, armillarysphere, beijingancientobservatory, asiathroughalens

Drawing of Diving Dress

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) in laboratory, working on hydrophobia (rabies) experiments, with rabbits and dogs. 1885.

A syringe shown complete. Bologna, 1647.

Photography of the design of the organs of the organs of all in Warsaw; Kostka and Mulert (Warsaw; Photographic Zak 1872-1900 (1870-00-00-1900-00-00);

Illustration showing Marc Isambard Brunel's machinery for making pulley blocks, used in Portsmouth Dockyards. 1866

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