Clipart illustrations of machines used in numerous trades, including mining, metallurgy, construction, and several others.
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Abutment-crane
"A hoisting crane used in building piers, towers, chineys, etc."-Whitney, 1902... |
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Aeolipile
"An instrument illustrating the expansive force of steam generated in a closed vessel, and escaping through a narrow aperture, said to have been invented by Hero of Alexandria in the second century B.... |
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Aerial Screw
An apparatus used for testing the powers of various electric batteries.... |
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Air Pump
"The air pump is an instrument for removing air from a given space. A closed vessel R is called the receiver, and the space that it encloses is that from which it is desired to remove the air. It is u... |
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Air Pump
"The air pump is an instrument for removing air from a given space. A closed vessel R is called the receiver, and the space that it encloses is that from which it is desired to remove the air. It is u... |
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Air Pump
"The air pump is an engine by which the air can be pumped out of a vessel, or withdrawn from it. The vessel so exhausted, is called a receive, and the space thus left in the vessel, after withdrawing... |
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Air Pump
"The piston rods are furnished with racks, or teeth, and are worked by the toothed wheel a, which is turned backwards and forwards, by the lever and handle b. The exhaustion pipe c, leads to the plat... |
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Air Pump, Mechanical Action
A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids or slurries, or gases. A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. One common misconception about pumps is the thought that they... |
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Air pump, single barrel
Air pump used for taking the air out of a vessel.... |
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Air-engine
"A motor employing the elastic force of air expanded by heat, or air compressed by means of another and separate motor, which is generally a steam engine."-Whitney, 1902... |
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Air-Engine, Stirling's
"A form of air-engine which was invented in 1816 by the Rev. R. Stirling is of special interest as embodying the earliest application of what is known as the "regenerative" principle, the principle na... |
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Air-pump
"An apparatus for the exhaustion, compression, or transmission of air."-Whitney, 1902... |
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Air-pump
A machine, variously constructed, for exhausting the air from a closed vessel.... |
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Air-pump
"A machine for remobing air out of any given vessel, or forcing it in." — Williams, 1889... |
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Altazimuth Theodolite
"An altazimuth theodolite of an improved pattern now used on the Ordnance Survey. The horizontal circle of 14 inches diameter is read by three micrometer microscopes; the vertical circle has a diamete... |
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Atwood Machine, The
The Atwood machine (or Atwood's machine) was invented in 1784 by Rev. George Atwood as a laboratory experiment to verify the mechanical laws of uniformly accelerated motion. Atwood's machine is a comm... |
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Auto-Pneumatic Apparatus
"Hearson's machine is cylindrical in form, and is surmounted by two turrets. Internally the cylinder is divided into two compartments by a transverse portion, one being occupied by a rotary blower, an... |
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Automatic Oil Muffle Furnace
"A muffle furnace, employed for annealing, hardening, and tempering." —Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... |
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Babcock and Wilcox Water-tube Boiler
Babcock and Wilcox Water-tube Boiler, longitudinal section... |
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Babcock and Wilcox Water-tube Boiler
Babcock and Wilcox Water-tube Boiler, section at AB-front elevation... |
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Band Resaw
A resaw is a large band saw optimized for cutting timber along the grain to reduce larger sections into smaller sections or veneers. Resawing veneers requires a wide blade with a small kerf to minimiz... |
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Beet Topper
A fine topper device for hoeing crops, in particular beets, which has a bar mounted in such a way that it can be pivoted up and down about an axis extending transversely with respect to the direction ... |
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Bell, Diving
A bell shaped chamber filled with compressed air to allow divers to surface underwater. ... |
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Belleville Boiler
Belleville Boiler... |
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Belt, Conveyer
A belt conveyor consists of two or more pulleys, with a continuous loop of material - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them. One or both of the pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the mater... |