Art Resource - AR924697

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Grinding needle points, Redditch, England, c1830.

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Needles: equipment for needle making from shears to cut wire (14) to polishing roll (13).

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Die-stamping the channel and eye position on needle wires, Redditch, England, c1835.

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Pen grinding room, Hanks, Wells & Co's factory, Birmingham, West Midlands, 1851

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Needle-making equipment, 1819.

Needle-making equipment, 1819. The large machine at bottom right is George Prior's dry grinder with a box partly enclosing the grindstone to minimise dust (1813). Needle grinders were some of the best paid industrial workers but the dust from the grinding wheels and the metal of the needle wire was a lethal mixture and they often died in their early 30s from lung disease. From Encyclopaedia Londinensis. (London, 1819).

Unique Identifier AR924697

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 4806px × 3633px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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