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Ship-building: elevations and long section of a ship-board steam engine. Engraving.

Clayton's patent tile, brick and pipe machine.

Machinery: a steam-driven water mill. Coloured drawing, 1854.

Milling: three industrial, steam-driven, milling machines. Engraving, c.1861.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine. Coloured drawing.

Engineering: a Newcomen steam-engine. Engraving, 174-.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.

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

A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.

Machinery: a steam-hammer and operatives. Wood engraving, c.1870 (?).

A steam valve for an engine. Engraving by Mutlow.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

A flying contraption with large wings travels over the water. Wood engraving, 1843.

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

Machinery: a steam-hammer and operatives. Wood engraving, c.1870 (?).

A steam valve for an engine. Engraving by Mutlow.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

A flying contraption with large wings travels over the water. Wood engraving, 1843.