Sujet

The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850. '...we find a communication from Mr. Paxton on this subject, dated 13th March, 1840, in which he says that, in its first state, it merely performed the part of a grooving-machine, but was subsequently improved so as to make the bar complete and that, by its adoption, the labour of twenty men for one year was performed, and a consequent saving of £1200 effected in labour alone. Now, we are not aware of sash-bars being completed by machinery before this period; and in the machine represented in the View, we perceive the same principle as that of Mr. Paxton's machine...by which double the amount of work is performed in a given time...Mr. Birch, of the Phoenix Saw-mills, near Cumberland-market, Regent's-park...has a contract for supplying skylight bars for the great Building...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_293

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,9Mo (5,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,5cm / 4960 x 3725 (300dpi)

Mots clés

park London England people male event work job technology man men industry worker metal construction site steam guy occupation British industrial machine machinery building site workmen workman location Victorian century iron Britain steam power profession newspapers press concept workshop exhibition United Kingdom B&W cast iron engraved engraving Hyde Park 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