The collection · DiffusionLab

Showman's lettering in gold leaf photographed as a big wheel against a dark sky, Hall and Fowle style ride front, fog haze pumped into the street. Work 10303.

Surface shading by close parallel rules of a rejected derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel on a page numbered in the corner in the 1938 edition. Work 10164.

Flat scan of an unfolded insert of a reel wound uneven on a dubbed side in a weekend of dubbing, tape traded for another tape. Work 10066.

The engine was named after a wife: axial composition down a trench of a four-storey mixing bin heaped with cotton, the second decade of the site. Work 9617.

A sprocket wheel caked with fine dust with its tracks erased behind it, the end of the mapping era, aerial plate shot from a high flyer, haze filter over a long lens. Work 9595.

A paste-mounted pithead wheel against a pale sky, the year of the first descent, large format colour with a deep haze. Work 9586.

Super 8 frame with a scratch of a reel to reel machine on a flight case and a crane rail running over the crowd, the last night before the demolition, screen printed sheet on grey board. Work 9511.

An oil-slicked noise-battered stencil sprayed on a coil end, 1908, trade fair display transparency, conte on grey sugar paper. Work 9310.

A colossal vast valve wheel taller than the man beside it, the survey years, commemorative brochure image, contact print from a survey negative. Work 9082.

An engine cowling with a numbered plate along a run of painted turnbuckles, face-on view along a centreline, technical pen with stippled shade. Work 8743.

A half sectioned capstan with a warping drum beside a bill of parts by numeral, filed late in the reign, the fee went unpaid in the eighth year, phantom outline in a lighter weight. Work 8606.

A fairground being taken down, kodachrome, overcast, mud. Work 8582.

A teardrop caravan across a floor strewn with offcuts, Anscochrome 64, 4:3 picture with the tabs at the edges, insert folded along four creases. Work 8435.

A gyroscope spinning in a brass cage in the style of a log rotator on a hook by a hatch up a ladder into the conning position, 1879. Work 8420.

A volcanologist beside a wheel coming slowly to rest, line plate with mechanical tint, yellowed groundwood paper. Work 7906.

A rhodonite over a gear train in oil, the sheriff kept a copy at home. Work 7889.

A patented derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel beside a printing telegraph type wheel, the first year of the office serial, dash dot line for the centre axis. Work 7858.

A pennanted porter's trolley stacked with cases, the first postwar summer, poster reduced to five shapes, machine-coated stock with a sheen. Work 7805.

A pipe organ bolted to a riveted bulkhead, the last dawn of the month, static frame with one machine in it, blueprint reversed to white lines. Work 7693.

A film loop flickering on a sheet and a second drummer on a steel oil barrel beside an empty machine plinth, the tour with no signed contract, machinery portrait under one lamp. Work 7691.

A luggage label pasted on a trunk beside a painted signal post, endpaper map illustration, enamel on steel with a chipped edge. Work 7612.

Raised viewpoint over a lit circle of a vulcanising press with a screw handle in 1879, gelatin dry plate at slow speed. Work 7544.

An elevator wheel with a wooden rim at a washbasin folded out of a wall, two hundred men let go together. Work 7434.

The years of the mechanics institutes, a referenced flywheel storing energy as seen through the eyepiece, rays ruled with a straight edge. Work 7414.

A haze-lit lamp cable rising out of the frame beside a post trolley parked square, the season of the shallow works, the directory listed a department twice, night interior with half the lights on. Work 7284.

A cog wheel meshed with a rack with a matching carriage below, the season after the closure, centred platform tableau, cine frame enlarged from 16mm. Work 6889.

A jet age suitcase covered in hotel luggage labels beside a lobby with a fountain and terrazzo, 1972, souvenir folder of views. Work 6452.

The fair comes every October: a Ferris wheel over a state fair in the first week of October, linen finish postcard, magenta dye shift. Work 6341.

Tracking shot still of a tyre tracks across a playa and a fabricator cutting plate with a torch, the far side of the collapse, rolling shutter skew. Work 6308.

Black and white snapshot of a circled reel of 16mm film on a splicer, the late 1950s, mimeograph purple. Work 5775.