Title

Needle-making equipment, 1819. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Needle-making equipment, 1819. The large machine at bottom right is George Prior's dry grinder with a box partly enclosing the grindstone to minimise dust (1813). Needle grinders were some of the best paid industrial workers but the dust from the grinding wheels and the metal of the needle wire was a lethal mixture and they often died in their early 30s from lung disease. From Encyclopaedia Londinensis. (London, 1819).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1819

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B65_280

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,8Mb) / 16,0in x 12,1in / 4806 x 3633 (300dpi)

Keywords

England event health industry manufacturing country metal danger trade steel dangerous British tool English color colour needle location century Britain disease grinding concept hazard grindstone industrial revolution 19th century Health and safety machine tool nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive grinding wheel industrial disease mechanisation metal industry occupational disease engraving Unknown engraving