# Machines and Instruments

> Gears, engines, carriages, calipers and airships, from the plates where every part is drawn as clean line.

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- **Collections:** 13
- **Files in total:** 2,029

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## Collections in this group

- [Mechanical (360 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/mechanical.md): Gears, cams, linkages, valves and whole engines, lifted from Victorian engineering plates where every part is drawn as clean line.
- [Tools & Instruments (271 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/tools.md): Compasses, calipers, theodolites, lancets and lathe work, engraved when an instrument was drawn as carefully as a portrait.
- [Transport (186 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/transport.md): Carriages, spoked wheels, ships, locomotives and bicycles from trade catalogues and engineering plates.
- [Steampunk (87 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/steampunk.md): Brass, cogs, boilers and airships. The machine age as it drew itself, pulled together from engineering, flight and clockwork plates.
- [Astronomical Volvelles (34 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/cyberpunk.md): Paper volvelles from Apian's Astronomicum Caesareum: layered star discs, planetary dials, moon phase wheels and zodiac calendars.
- [Technical Plates (200 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/technical-plates.md): Spec plates, serial tags, revision blocks, inspection badges and dimension sets: the paperwork of a drawing office, drawn as clean line.
- [Dials (122 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/dials.md): Technical dials, calibration rings, radar sweeps, concentric marks, orbit diagrams and rotary selectors.
- [Machine Codes (152 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/machine-codes.md): Barcodes, matrix codes, circular codes, stripe codes and punch fields: machine-readable marks that encode nothing.
- [Data and Graphs (176 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/data-graphs.md): Mini graphs, donuts, radar charts, gauges, meter stacks and progress rings: chart furniture with no data in it.
- [Aviation and Aerospace (137 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/aviation-marks.md): Mission patches, aircraft plates, attitude indicators, telemetry strips, countdowns and orbital diagrams.
- [Machines and Engines (589 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/machines): Screw presses, winches, mine engines and mills, scanned whole from Renaissance machine books.
- [Gears and Mechanisms (391 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/gears-and-mechanisms.md): Gear trains, linkages and the movements the engineering books drew to explain themselves.
- [Wheels (268 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/wheels.md): Cart wheels, water wheels and treadwheels, drawn by people who had to build them.

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