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  • Boycott E$$o : no.1 global warming villain... / StopEsso campaign.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
  • Boycott E$$o : no.1 global warming villain... / StopEsso campaign.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819, after J. Farey.
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  • view Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
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    Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.

    Farey, John, 1791-1851. | Date: 1814 | Reference: 45423i
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    On the use of petroleum or earth-oil as an antiseptic in the treatment of surgical diseases / by Joseph Fayrer.

    Fayrer, Joseph, Sir, 1824-1907. | Date: 1869
  • view Mémoire sur quelques singularités du terroir de Gabian, et principalement sur la fontaine de l'huile de pétrole qui y coule / par M. Rivière, de la Societe Royale des Sciences, Docteur en Medecine de la Faculte de Montpellier.
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    Mémoire sur quelques singularités du terroir de Gabian, et principalement sur la fontaine de l'huile de pétrole qui y coule / par M. Rivière, de la Societe Royale des Sciences, Docteur en Medecine de la Faculte de Montpellier.

    Riviere, Guillaume, active 1717. | Date: M.DCC.XVII
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    Francisci Ariosti De oleo Montis Zibinii seu petroleo agri Mutinensis libellus, è manuscriptis membranis / editus ab Olig. Jacobaeo.

    Ariosto, Francesco, -1492. | Date: 1690
  • view Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819, after J. Farey.
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    Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819, after J. Farey.

    Farey, John, 1791-1851. | Date: 1819 | Reference: 45424i
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