Title page to 'The book of various and ingenious machines', 1588.

Newcomen steam engine at Caprington Colliery, near Kilmarnock, 1897.

'A view of Chelsea Water Works', 1750.

John Smeaton, English mechanical and civil engineer, c 1780s.

John Smeaton, English mechanical and civil engineer, c 1780s.

William Chadwell Mylne, British engineer and architect, 1856.

Newcomen type pumping engine, late 18th early 19th century.

Henry Prevost Babbage with his wife and family, c 1870s.

Newcomen steam engine, 1752.

Newcomen engine, 1752.

Newcomen engine, 1752.

John Ericson, inventor and marine engineer, 1865.