Steam Engine | PICRYL collections

This train is now ready to depart

Description: "Photograph of railway guard giving the signal to the engine driver." Photograph by RL Sirus...Date: 1884..Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/369/256 ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/dis... More

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

[Hero's miraculous altar]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows the details of a steam-driven mechanical apparatus for opening doors. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Gli artificiosi e cvriosi moti spiritali di Herone / Giambattista Aleotti. Bol... More

[Engraved frontispiece showing pressure cookers opposite the title pag...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: A new digester or engine for softning bones, .... / by Denis Papin M.D. London : Printed by J. M. for H. Bonwicke, 1681. Published in: The tradition of technology : La... More

[The miner's friend, a pump using steam to create a vacuum to draw wat...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world. London : C... More

The fire engine, common pump, &c

Print shows three figures illustrating water pumps; figure 3 shows a water tank with two men operating a pump and a fireman holding a hose. Title from item. Inscribed in pencil on upper left corner: 1765. (DLC/... More

Plan of Mr. Fitch's steam boat

Print shows broadside view of John Fitch's design for ferry boat with steam-driven oars. Title from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or monthly miscellany,.... Philadelphia : Printed for T. Seddon, W. S... More

Billesholm = HHJ stationLokaltåg från Bjuv med lok HHJ 9 Billeholm Fot...

Railway stations in Sweden

Burlington steam mills and water works

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Collins.

[Early steam locomotive with toothed "propelling wheel" which gripped ...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The monthly magazine. [London : Printed for R. Phillips], 1814 June 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bru... More

Patent puffs to raise the wind or Dandy steam packets on contrary Jack...

Print shows three men attempting to power their bicycles by means of flatulence. Title from item. Library of Congress copy is hand-colored. Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Publisher's name misspell... More

Steam engine - Mr. Watt's double steam engine from his specification o...

Print shows gears and pump mechanism for a steam engine. Title from item. Illus. in: A system of mechanical philosophy. Edinburgh : J. Murray, 1822. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of West... More

The Upper Schuylkill Bridge at Philadelphia, from the S.E. The greates...

Print shows the Upper Ferry or Colossus Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River at Callowhill Street in Philadelphia, a single span, slightly arched, covered bridge, also shows a detail of a "plan", "transverse se... More

[Rear and side view of George Stephenson's steam locomotive and railro...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Reports on canals, railways, roads, and other subjects, made to "The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement" / By William Strickland ... while ... More

Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, S&DR Locomotion No. 1.

(Pennsylvania Railroad) PRR Q1 6100

Lok av Crewe-typ tillhörande London and North Western Railway, LNWR.

Ånglok, Blenkinsops lok Sverige

Blenkinsops lok

(The London & North Eastern Railway ) LNER lok 2001 "Cock o' the North...

(The London & North Eastern Railway ) LNER lok 2001 "Cock o' the North"

Karlskrona - Växjö Järnväg, CWJ lok 17

Ånglok 2, ett vedeldat lok. Resande hänger ut från sidan av godsvagnen...

Ånglok 2, ett vedeldat lok. Resande hänger ut från sidan av godsvagnen.

Ånglok, SNCF 12-010 Sverige

SNCF 12-010

Ånglok, Vy över stationsområde. Sverige

Vy över stationsområde.

Urspårning, okänd plats. Möjligen Danmark.

Ånglok, Grekiskt lok Sverige

Grekiskt lok

Loket "Agenarie" tillverkad 1829

Modell av John Ericssons "Novelty" som tävlade vid Manchester-Liverpoo...

Modell av John Ericssons "Novelty" som tävlade vid Manchester-Liverpool järnbana mot bland annant "Rocket"

(Deutsche Reichsbahn) DR lok 06.001

Ånglok med vagnar.

Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg–Oxelösunds Järnvägar, TGOJ S3 57.

Irans Statsjvg lok 356

Lokförare i Östra Södermanlands - Järnväg, ÖSlJ lok 2 "Lotta".

London Midland Scottish Railway, LMS 7P 6200.

Ånglok, "Rocket" Sverige, Svenska Järnvägarna

"Rocket"

Klagshamns Cementverks Aktiebolag.

Elevation of a locomotive engine, Stanhope and Tyne Railway

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Porter, S.

Ånglok tillverkatd vid Verkstaden vid Nydqvist & Holm i Västergötland.

Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg - Oxelösunds Järnvägar, TGOJ M3t 73 fra...

Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg - Oxelösunds Järnvägar, TGOJ M3t 73 framför ett antal malmvagnar i en uppförsbacke.

Northern Pacific, NP, lok 5000

London Midland Scottish Railway, LMS 6P5F 13245.

På landsbyggden ses ett ånglok med tio stycken öppna personvagnar. Sam...

På landsbyggden ses ett ånglok med tio stycken öppna personvagnar. Samt ett hölass draget av två hästar.

Söndrig pistonkolv på BJ H3 60

Planch i färg med motiv av Patersons ånglok.

Sävsnäs Järnväg, SVJ lok 4 "Sebastian Grave".

Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg - Oxelösunds Järnvägar, TGOJ M3t 73 fra...

Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg - Oxelösunds Järnvägar, TGOJ M3t 73 framför ett antal malmvagnar i en uppförsbacke.

Lok "Mississippi" byggt för Natchez & Hamburg Railroad. Det antas vara...

Lok "Mississippi" byggt för Natchez & Hamburg Railroad. Det antas vara byggt av Dunham & Co. New York 1836. Men detta är inte helt belagt.

Ånglok med tender., Lokförare Sverige

Ånglok med tender.

Statens Järnvägar, SJ N3-vagnar levereras av LKSJ lok 3

The Swedish State Railways (Swedish: Statens Järnvägar) or SJ, originally the Royal Railway Board (Swedish: Kungl. Järnvägsstyrelsen), was Swedish government agency responsible for operating the state-owned rai... More

Ånglok, Trevithicks lok Sverige

Trevithicks lok

Deutsche Reichsbahn, DR 03 222.

Ånglok, Ritning av ånglok. Sverige

Ritning av ånglok.

London Midland Scottish Railway, LMS 5XP 5573.

Ångtåg i trafik på väg över landsväg. Tydlig varningsskylt finns vid ö...

Ångtåg i trafik på väg över landsväg. Tydlig varningsskylt finns vid övergången.

Pack und transport dampfwagen auf der eisenbahn zwischen Liverpool und...

Print showing two views of freight trains of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, with flatbed cars for hauling standard freight and cars with rails and cages for hauling livestock, drawn by steam loco... More

Dampf eilwagen auf der eisenbahn zwischen Liverpool und Manchester / C...

Print showing two views of passenger trains of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, with enclosed and open passenger cars, drawn by steam locomotives between Liverpool and Manchester, England. Title from item.

[Amphibious steam powered carriage and paddle boat designed by Oliver ...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The Boston mechanic and journal of the useful arts and sciences. Boston : G.W. Light & Co., 1834 July, p. 17. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of ... More

The steam ship President, Lieut. Roberts R.N. commander: the largest i...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6196

These are to certify that Richard Lawrence is pursuant to law nominate...

Print shows Neptune/Poseidon seated on the left on dark clouds at water's edge, receiving the keys to the City of New York from a female figure identified as "Protection" and another female figure identified as... More

Philadelphia fire and life insurance co. Perpetual engraved by J. McGo...

Print shows four men wearing business suits and top hats standing in front of as steam fire engine parked on a Philadelphia street. Title from item. Caption continues: This policy of insurance witnesseth, that ... More

Steam ship of War Eagle

"Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y.: 1842." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Penniman.

The explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri, at Gibralte...

Crew of H.M.S. Malabar (foreground, left) watch as USS Missouri explodes and burns in the distance from accidental fire after completing first trans-Atlantic voyage of a U.S. steam powered ship the day prior.

The aerial steam carriage

Pictorial lettersheet shows British inventor William Samuel Henson's proposed steam powered flying machine in an imaginary flight over the Thames River, London, 1843. Attempts to fly a model of the aerial steam... More

Royal mail steam ship, Europe

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5675

U.S. mail steam ship Pacific: Collins line, builders, hull by Brown & ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6838

Pennington & Cos. aerial steam ship or composite ballon lith. of P.S. ...

Print shows an aerial steamship labeled "New Era" that has a chimney at top and a house-like building on the bottom. Includes a portrait of John H. Pennington with facsimile signature and a description of "Stea... More

Fire in Philadelphia J. Queen

Drawing shows Weccacoe engine fire fighters and Hibernia fire fighters before the Hope fire station in Philadelphia, which has caught on fire. The fire fighters are operating fire engines to pump water into the... More

Carriage or fire engine

Title devised by Library staff. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress).

Philadelphia fire company mobile steam driven water pump

Photograph shows a piece of firefighting equipment on display in front of a firehouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Several men are standing around a horsedrawn steam driven water pump. Title devised by Librar... More

The great pictorial romance of the age, or, steam ship commodores & Un...

American political cartoon about the awarding of United States mail contracts. Print shows steamships (two shaped like rocking horses) and a balloon labeled "California mail balloon via Nicaragua," with discuss... More

U.S. mail steam ship, Atlantic: Collins line. builders, hull by Wm. H....

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6832

U.S. mail steam ship Baltic: Collins line. builders, hull by Brown & B...

Steam Hammer. Nasmyth.

Design and model of the new steamer America, for the western lakes

Print showing port side view of the steamer America. Title from item. Caption continues: To be built and run between Buffalo and Cleveland. Invented, designed and drawn by Darius Davison, New York. Copyright 18... More

Amerikansk illustration föreställande ett imaginärt tåg med segel och ...

Amerikansk illustration föreställande ett imaginärt tåg med segel och ankare.

The great American steamer, General Washington, the largest boat in th...

Stamped lower left: 24 July 1852.

(The London and North Western Railway ) L&NWR lok 1876

Engelska ånglok från London & North Western Railway, LNWR lok 1979 och...

Engelska ånglok från London & North Western Railway, LNWR lok 1979 och LNWR lok 1932 "Velocipede".

United States mail steam ship "Pacific"

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Day & Son.

Steam engine with 9 in. cyl. 18 in. stroke by J.T. Sutton & Co. Frankl...

Print shows front and side views and a cut-away view of a steam engine. Title from item. Printed at top right corner: Pl. 1. Illus. from: The American engineer, draftsman, and machinist's assistant : designed f... More

[Paddle wheel mechanism of side-wheel steamer]

Drawing is third panel on the "Machinery Scroll", depicting Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853. Watercolor drawing by contemporary Japanese artist. Title devised by Library staff.

Königlich Bayerischen Staatseisenbahnen, K.Bay.Sts.B lok "KUFSTEIN".

Nasmyth's patent steam hammer, copied by permission of the inventor fr...

Title from item. Illus. in: Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining, and engineering / ed. by Charles Tomlinson.... London : New York, G. Virtue & co., 1854. Published in: The t... More

Steamer Wallamet

Copy photograph of daguerreotype shows the sidewheel steamboat Wallamet ca. 1854. Title from item.

[Stern paddle-wheel steam tugboat towing British warship]

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour,.... [London : Reprinted for J. Sheepshanks, 1855 from 17... More

Explosion of a steam fire engine, Cincinnati

Wood engraving by Bobbett-Hooper(?). Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1855 Dec. 22. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Steam engines; Disa... More

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor. Includes measurements for length, breadth, weight, and horse power. Title fr... More

Resumption of the fast express train Through to Pittsburg in 13 hours....

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 122, Folder 8g.

Stockholm C Järna - Stockholms gamla riksdagshuset.

Stockholms gamla riksdagshuset.

Göteborg C inviges 1856.

Bangården vid Malmö station. Malmö Central station. Från 1856 till 186...

Railway stations in Sweden

New York & Erie railroad. The great double track, and only broad gauge...

Transportation.; Handwritten on verso: 1854. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 62, Folder 18.

Bangården i Lund - Eslöv Malmö Sverige

Bangården i Lund

Teckning Station, Skåne, Sverige

Railway stations in Sweden

Robertsholm station före namnbytet till Hofors. Framför stationshuset ...

Railway stations in Sweden

1856. Day boat for Albany & Troy ... The favorite steamer Armenia, Cap...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 122, Folder 8e.

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor. Title from item.

Kronprins Carl inviger Arboga - Örebro

Engine, J.H. Devereux, Alexandria (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows the ornately decorated locomotive J.H. Devereux, of the United States Military Railroad with two crew members on board outside the roundhouse at the Alexandria station. Title from item. Publish... More

1857 Pennsylvania central railroad, in direct connection with the Pitt...

Steamer PASSPORT

Advertisement for Canadian steamer service between Montreal and Milwaukee, 1857. Reference copy may be in LOT 4426 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Capt... More