Sujet

Messrs. Tuxford's Traction-Engine, exhibited at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Messrs. Tuxford's Traction-Engine, exhibited at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, [London], 1857. '...the Traction Engine, or Steam Horse [is] a sort of walking leviathan, more powerful than the elephant, yet as manageable as the farmer's best-bred cart-horse. A number of these self-moving machines are in course of construction, or are already completed, for some large sugar plantations in the West Indies...the credit of its invention belongs to Mr. Boydell...This engine weighs altogether about twelve tons, and is consequently a costly affair'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_453

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

13,3Mo (798,6Ko) / 20,2cm x 16,5cm / 2388 x 1945 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal technology industry livestock cattle steam British weapon weapons color industrial show war century Britain steam power engine club newspapers press company concept B&W farm animal steam engine warfare engraved engraving farm animals Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News sugar industry traction engine wood engraving ILN agricultural show newspaper Unknown James Boydell Smithfield Club cattle show 19th-century Tuxford & Sons James Boydell