Blowing engine, Shelton Colliery and Iron-works. Side elevation – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Blowing engine, Shelton Colliery and Iron-works. Side elevation. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Blowing engine, Shelton Colliery and Iron-works. Side elevation
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Few pictures in this set show the working machinery of an ironworks as plainly as this side elevation of the blowing engine at Shelton Colliery and Iron-works. Its flat, measured view lets a reader see the engine's full profile, which was the kind of drawing engineers used to study and compare machines. Blowing engines of this sort, usually steam-driven, forced a steady blast of air into blast furnaces, so the engine was central to the smelting process. The caption card gives no date, so the drawing's exact period is uncertain, but the subject points to the mid-19th-century iron industry of the English Midlands.
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Fig. 55. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Industry...--Iron; Engines; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138549 |
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