Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search our stories, images and catalogue
Library account
Concept

Iron

Images

  • Civil engineering: building the Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal. Coloured lithograph by the Kell brothers, 1860.
  • Iron: rolling machine (top), and elevation and cross-section of two blast furnaces (below). Engraving c.1861.
  • Architecture: various types of roof truss. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Architecture: decorative iron door at Rouen Cathedral. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing after J. C. Hall.
  • Iron: various machines involved in the Bessemer process of steel manufacture. Engraving c.1861.
  • Architecture: decorative ironwork. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins, 1852, after J. F. Colling.
  • Architecture: various highly wrought designs for door furniture. Engraving.
  • Metalwork: a blacksmith's forge. Mezzotint by J. Sharples, 1859.
  • Engineering: point-changing mechanisms for railway track in plan and side elevation. Engraving by W. Read after E. Galloway.
  • Space Sheep & Astro Pig talk about nutrition / Vegetarian Society.
All images (48)

Catalogue

  • view Engineering: rolling mills for iron. Engraving by J. Pass, 1826.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Engineering: rolling mills for iron. Engraving by J. Pass, 1826.

    | Date: 1799 | Reference: 45414i
  • view Architecture: two designs for door knockers. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing after W. H. Rogers, 1850.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Architecture: two designs for door knockers. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing after W. H. Rogers, 1850.

    Rogers, W. H. | Date: 1850 | Reference: 44353i
    • Books

    Le fer : biochimie, physiologie, pathologie / J.C. Dreyfus, G. Schapira ; préf. du professeur Robert Debré.

    Dreyfus, J. C. (Jean Claude), 1916-1995. | Date: [1958], ©1958
  • view Building: iron supports for rotten timber. Engraving by W. Kelsall after A. Ainger.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Building: iron supports for rotten timber. Engraving by W. Kelsall after A. Ainger.

    Ainger, Alfred, 1797 or 1798-1859. | Reference: 44309i
  • view Machines: a steel processing furnace at Paris. Engraving, c.1861.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Machines: a steel processing furnace at Paris. Engraving, c.1861.

    | Date: 1858 | Reference: 45514i
All works (79)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here
  • Accessibility

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence