Manufacture Collection (page 84)

Contact lens production, artwork. Contact lenses are artificial lenses designed to be worn directly on the surface of the eye

Coconut rope production, 19th century
Coconut rope production, 19th-century artwork. The fibres for this rope are obtained from the husk of the coconut, producing a material known as coir

Electric drill, 19th century
Electric drill, 19th-century artwork. This drill, powered by the electric motor at left, is being used in the workshops of a shipbuilding company. The company is Austrian Lloyd, in Trieste

Industrial ice production, 19th century
Industrial ice production, 19th-century artwork. This is an ice factory from the 1890s, a period when a variety of methods were being used to produce artificial ice

Face mask production, 19th century
Face mask production, 19th-century artwork. During the 19th century, face masks of famous people, or fancy dress masks for use at masked balls, were popular

School for the blind, 19th century
School for the blind, 19th-century artwork. Blind women making boots at an institution for the teaching and training of the blind

Chain mortiser saw, 19th century
Chain mortiser saw, 19th-century artwork. This type of saw is designed to cut square holes in wood, here in a plank being held in place by a clamp

Toy manufacturing, 19th century
Toy manufacturing, 19th-century artwork. Family working together at home to make wooden toys. This is an example of small-scale crafts production (cottage industries)

High voltage electrical equipment
Electricity transmission. Pieces of high-voltage electrical transmission equipment in a factory. Photographed at Yekaterinburg, Russia

19th Century Bessemer furnace. Historical artwork of men at a forge using the Bessemer process to make steel. The Bessemer, or Thomas-Gilchrist

Penicillium fungus growing on agar
Close-up of a colony of Penicillium chrysogenum fungus growing on agar in a petri dish. This fungus produces the antibiotic penicillin G, seen as small yellow droplets on the surface

Oberhausen steelworks, artwork
Oberhausen steelworks. Early 20th Century artwork of men at the steel forges in Oberhausen, Germany, using the Siemens-Martin process to make steel. This process involved using open-hearth furnaces

Load testing a fighter fuselage
A test facility of the Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG

Optical disc production machine. Compact discs (CDs) and digital versatile discs (DVDs) are examples of optical discs. Here

Strips of rubber for tyres
Tyre manufacture. Strips of rubber at a tyre factory. The rubber is manufactured with specific properties of grip and durability

Checking TV circuit board components
Television manufacture. Workers checking components for use in plasma screen televisions. Photographed at the Samsung factory in the Kaluga Region, Russia

Metal rolling mill. Wheels in a still-molten state being formed at a metal rolling mill. These wheels are being produced at the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant, in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia

Balloon gas generation, 19th century
Balloon gas generation. These generators are being used to produce hydrogen gas for use in military balloons. This is part of the 1885 campaign by the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Abyssinia at

Aluminium factory
Литейное производство на Красноярском алюмиевом заводе (ОАО "КрА--")

Combine harvester factory
ОАО «ПО „Красноярский завод комбайнов"»....одит в компанию «Агромаш...олдинг»

Mirror manufacture, artwork
Mirror manufacture. 19th Century artwork of the manufacture of large round mirrors for telescopes. Image from La Science Illustree Louis Figuier (1895)

Evolution of technology, conceptual computer artwork. Robot hand holding a cog, which could represent the evolution from purely mechanical systems to advanced electronic systems

Lathe, 16th century artwork. Lathes are machines used to rotate an object about an axis, to perform symmetrical cutting or drilling operations

Flour mill, 16th century artwork. Men milling flour in a mill driven by human power, rather than wind or water. The mill operators are turning wheels on the centrla level to power the mill

Charcoal production site. Pile of wood that has been constructed and which will be covered with turf and clay before being lit to produce charcoal in a slow and controlled burning process

Buckyball molecule, computer artwork
Buckyball molecule. Conceptual computer artwork that might represent research into, or hi-tech automated production of, buckyball molecules (white sphere)

Doping buckyball molecules, artwork
Doping buckyball molecules. Computer artwork showing a conveyor belt (top left to bottom right) of buckyball molecules being doped (combined) with other atoms (blue)

MAPLE SYRUP, c1865. Sugaring off. Making maple syrup and sugar. Oil on canvas by Eastman Johnson, c1865

STEEL SQUARE WORKS, 1857. Vignette from a poster advertising the Chisel and Steel Square Works of Shaftsbury, Vermont. American lithograph, 1857

FACTORY: CHEVROLET, 1960s. A Chevrolet assembley line in the early 1960s

CHINA: POSTER, 1974. Studying : Chinese poster, 1974, encouraging young peasants and factory workers to study in their spare time to better serve their country and people

WORLD WAR I: WOMEN WORKERS. Women welding bomb casings in an American munitions factory, c1917

BOW MAKING, c1913. A Navajo man stringing a bow. Photograph by Roland Reed, c1913

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURING. An American auto assembly line, c1910

BICYCLE ADVERTISEMENT, 1904. Advertisement from an American magazine of 1904

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Boott Cotton Mills on the Merrimac River in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Textile mills line the Merrimac and Concord rivers in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Steel industry workers at the coke furnaces of Pennsylvania, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Power looms inside the Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts. Photograph

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Fabric label for cloth woven in Lowell mills, Boott Cotton Mill Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph

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Slaters Mill, first US textile factory, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Photograph

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Textile mills along the Blackstone River, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Photograph

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Bessemer steel converter in a Pittsburgh steel mill, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Factory workers making rifle cartridges, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pittsburgh coke ovens, 1880s
Steel workers at the Pittsburgh coke ovens, showing their dwellings on the hilltop, 1880. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Women garment workers in the dressmaking department of a factory, about 1890. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Gunsmiths forging muskets for the Minutemen before the American Revolution, 1770s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Darley

Armour plate milling machine, 1870s Date: 1870

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