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Institution History

Discover our history and development through our Council Minutes, building plans, illustrations and photographs. Member records (1847-1930) can be found on Ancestry, IMechE Members can get free access to these. Additional images from our archive and library collections can be found on our Picture Gallery.

Subcollections

Annual Reports

Newspapers

175 Virtual Archive Gallery

America 1904

Conversazione Programmes

IMechE locomotive

Institution of Automobile Engineers

Institution of Locomotive Engineers

Summer Meetings

Council Minutes

Engineering history

First World War

Members gallery

One Birdcage Walk

Presidents' gallery

Royal Charter

Items in this collection

75th anniversary dinner — Archive Documents

Commemorative plaque — Images

First Indian Meeting: ILE — Images

Foundation letter — Archive Documents

George Stephenson to JTW Bell p1 — Archive Documents

George Stephenson to JTW Bell p2 — Archive Documents

George Stephenson's Centenary — Images

IMechE coat of arms — Images

Jubilee meeting programme — Archive Documents

Nigel Gresley cartoon — Archive Documents

Summer meeting ticket — Archive Documents

Trustee Board — Images

War Memorial Tablet — Objects