Sujet

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. View of '...the operations of punching bolt-holes in the bars of iron, and cutting off the ends by the shears. These modes of substituting mechanical for manual labour are to be seen in every large mechanical establishment in the kingdom. It may be mentioned here, that about 3000 holes are punched during the present working day of ten hours'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_291

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,4Mo (3,7Mo) / 35,4cm x 42,0cm / 4185 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

park London England people male event work job technology man men worker metal construction site steam guy occupation British machine machinery building site workmen workman location automation automatic Victorian century iron Britain steam power profession newspapers press concept exhibition punching United Kingdom B&W cast iron engraved engraving Hyde Park industrial revolution Construction Industry 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century workers The Print Collector cultural event Great Exhibition 1851 Illustrated London News mechanisation TGN ILN newspaper Unknown Sir Joseph Paxton Paxton Joseph Paxton Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations working man Joseph Sir Joseph 19th-century Great Exhibition of 1851