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Bleaching: racks and cauldrons for drying bleached cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.

Textiles: tapestry weaving, a loom in elevation (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.

Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.

Textiles: a mechanical Jacquard loom, three-quarter view with spectators. Engraving.

Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.

A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.

Clocks: jigs for spring-coiling (top), and cog-placing (below). Engraving by Lachaussé after L.J. Goussier.

Textiles: three patent diagrams of apparatus for treating fabric. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1856.

Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].

A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front. Coloured pencil drawing by D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.

Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk finishing, inside a factory. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

Mechanics: a type of clamp. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.

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A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front. Coloured pencil drawing by D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.

Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk finishing, inside a factory. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

Mechanics: a type of clamp. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.