Sujet
Needle-making equipment, 1819. Artist: Unknown
Légende
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
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B65_280
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (2,8Mo) / 40,7cm x 30,8cm / 4806 x 3633 (300dpi)