Photo Hunt 2019 No. 25 : Machines/Machinery

[joe]

This week's Photo Hunt theme (June 23, 2019) : Machines/Machinery

Upcoming Photo Hunt themes :
June 30 : Country road
July 7 : Hike/Hiking

Travel is an opportunity to see mechanized activities that we sometimes don't encounter in our routines at home. Observing machines we aren't familiar with can also make us interested in the people using them.

Two to start the thread, both from Piemonte, Italy :
the first, a crane set up in a narrow street
the second, father and son working by a dehuller for hazelnuts

 

[JustTravel]

Here are two photos taken in Venice in December 2018 -

.....changing the wooden poles by the Accademia bridge

.....working on the fondamenta by the San Zaccaria vaporetto stop

 

[Eleanor]

This is a sugar cane factory in Madeira which is still crushing sugar cane using one hundred year old machines powered by steam.

 

[Eleanor]

Killhope Lead Mining Centre in Upper Weardale. The waterwheel was used to power the jiggers which separated the heavier ore from waste rock fragments.

 

[Eleanor]

Forges de Pyrène in the Haute-Pyrenees is a folk museum demonstrating traditional crafts. This massive tilt hammer was used to make blades for spades.

 

[JustTravel]

The construction of this windmill was ordered by 26 bakers in 1770, Brugge.

 

[Eleanor]

Gayle Mill in North Yorkshire is a wonderful example of an early C20th sawmill. The last owner retired in 1988, locking the door and leaving all the machinery in situ.

I went on a guided tour a couple of years ago. Unfortunately the mill is currently closed for visitors although it is still running woodworking courses.

There are saws of all sizes...

machinery for cutting out complex shapes

and machines for 'turning' chair legs.

The mill produced everything from farm carts and gates to household furniture.

 

[Colo]

In the Library of Alexandria there is a permanent exhibition on the history of Printing Machines. These devices could arguably be rated as one of the top 10 things invented my man. Without them, the written words of religion, science, literature, and documents that changed the world would not have been able to be shared so easily. I guess today some may argue that an iPad would rate higher.

 

[JustTravel]

Volkskundemuseum, Brugge: various equipment, tools and machines to make shoes -

 

[Eleanor]

Not shoes this time, but clogs...

 

[Eleanor]

Something completely different - a 1900s dentist's surgery at Beamish, Living Museum of the North in County Durham.

 

[joe]

Nice use of black and white in the photos...

 

[Eleanor]

It wasn't intentional Joe, but the lighting in the clog manufacturers gave a deep orange cast which I couldn't get rid off. The pictures looked a lot better in B&W!

 

[JMichael]

Astronomical Clock, Prague, Czech Republic

 

[Eleanor]

I love the small skeleton in the top right corner!

 

[joe]

A few more from me :

End of corn harvest, Piemonte, Italy
Wind turbines, and pivot irrigating machine, Israel

 

[JMichael]

I love the small skeleton in the top right corner!

That's an hour glass in his left hand. A reminder that time runs out for all of us so we better be good if we want to get to heaven.

 

[JustTravel]

London, July 2016

 

[Eleanor]

Blacksmith's forge at Avoncroft Museum of Historical Buildings in Worcestershire.

 

[Eleanor]

Perry crusher and press, again from Avoncroft Museum.