Art Library / Machines and Instruments
Machines and Instruments
Gears, engines, carriages, calipers and airships, from the plates where every part is drawn as clean line.
14 collections, 1,537 pieces in total. Pick a collection to see the art inside it.
Engraving
Typewriter
From Gardner D. Hiscox, Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices , scan page 393
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Steam road roller 02
From Gardner D. Hiscox, Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices , scan page 230
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Buggy with folded top 01
From G. & D. Cook & Co., Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages , scan page 36
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Start with a subject or a set of historical plates.
Mechanical
Gears, cams, linkages, valves and whole engines, lifted from Victorian engineering plates where every part is drawn as clean line.
Tools & Instruments
Compasses, calipers, theodolites, lancets and lathe work, engraved when an instrument was drawn as carefully as a portrait.
Transport
Carriages, spoked wheels, ships, locomotives and bicycles from trade catalogues and engineering plates.
Steampunk
Brass, cogs, boilers and airships. The machine age as it drew itself, pulled together from engineering, flight and clockwork plates.
Astronomical Volvelles
Paper volvelles from Apian's Astronomicum Caesareum: layered star discs, planetary dials, moon phase wheels and zodiac calendars.
Technical Plates
Spec plates, serial tags, revision blocks, inspection badges and dimension sets: the paperwork of a drawing office, drawn as clean line.
Dials
Technical dials, calibration rings, radar sweeps, concentric marks, orbit diagrams and rotary selectors.
Machine Codes
Barcodes, matrix codes, circular codes, stripe codes and punch fields: machine-readable marks that encode nothing.
Data and Graphs
Mini graphs, donuts, radar charts, gauges, meter stacks and progress rings: chart furniture with no data in it.
Aviation and Aerospace
Mission patches, aircraft plates, attitude indicators, telemetry strips, countdowns and orbital diagrams.
Machines and Engines
Screw presses, winches, mine engines and mills, scanned whole from Renaissance machine books.
Vintage Tech
Wall telephones and telegraph keys, glass lamp shades, humming dynamos and bellows cameras, from the years when electric light was new and every camera folded out on bellows.
Motifs and moods
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