Please note that access to the Picture Gallery is currently unavailable as it is being updated. A resource of digitised pictures from the IMechE archive collection. The gallery can be browsed by subject area and images can be sent to friends as free e-cards. Print purchase enquiries can also be made.
The subject areas are: aerospace, automotive, engineers' notebooks, factories, famous engineers, IMechE, industrial machinery, maritime, railways and women in industry.
An image from the Famous Engineers collection:
Colonel R E B Crompton (1845-1939) by Gertrude Hall.
R E B Crompton was instrumental in pioneering electric lighting. This chalk on paper drawing shows him observing a Trevithick steam engine model.