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Civil engineering: diagrams of canal locks. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1800.

Yokohama, Japan: panoramic view of the native and European residences in Yokohama town, looking towards the harbour. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Civil engineering: canals (below), and a photometer (above). Engraving by Mutlow.

Civil engineering: a canal passing through hilly terrain (above), and diagrams of canal locks and pressure-regulating mechanisms (below). Engraving.

Civil engineering: diagrams of canal slides and dragging mechanisms. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1800.

Civil engineering: a Royal visit to the Suez canal, arrival (top), and the meeting of the waters (below). Wood engraving, c.1865.

Victoria Hospital, Suez, Egypt: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by Pearson, 1868, after Colonel Collyer.

The canal and Gothic tower in the garden of the Duke of Argyll at Whitton, Middlesex. Etching, 18th century.

A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.

Civil engineering: three diagrams of canal slides and dragging mechanisms. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1800.

Civil engineering: diagrams of canal locks and pressure-regulating mechanisms. Engraving by G. Daws.

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Civil engineering: a Royal visit to the Suez canal, arrival (top), and the meeting of the waters (below). Wood engraving, c.1865.

A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.

Civil engineering: diagrams of canal locks and pressure-regulating mechanisms. Engraving by G. Daws.

The canal and Gothic tower in the garden of the Duke of Argyll at Whitton, Middlesex. Etching, 18th century.

Yokohama, Japan: panoramic view of the native and European residences in Yokohama town, looking towards the harbour. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.