Sujet

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

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The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. View of '...the large crane, by which the cast-iron girders are unloaded from the waggon - one of Pickford's in the present instance. A girder is seen, suspended by the chain, in the act of being moved round to be placed between the jaws of the hydraulic testing machine. In order that the progress of the works might not be impeded, at their commencement it was found absolutely necessary to test the girders by night as well as by day, for which purpose artificial light was required...A lamp, with flexible tube, by which the gas is conveyed from the main, is suspended from the jib of the crane, with which it can therefore be moved round in any required direction, and also be raised or lowered according to circumstances. In the foreground is one of the sappers and miners men waiting to test the strength of the girder'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_302

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,3Mo (5,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,4cm / 4960 x 3829 (300dpi)

Mots clés

park London England people male event work job technology man men worker metal construction construction site guy occupation British crane cranes gas building site girder girders workmen workman location Victorian century iron Britain profession unloading newspapers press concept exhibition winch 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 TGN winching gear 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