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  • Carpentry: the pump on Notre Dame bridge, plan. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Engineering: a large harbour, with a pumping station. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Engineering: a powerful water pump on display at an exhibition. Engraving, [c.1865?].
  • Hamburg's floating baths: plans and elevations, and detail of filter machine. Line engraving by Mutlow.
  • Examples of hydrostatics: Aldersea's engine for raising water, London Bridge water works, a syringe, Tantalus's cup, and a cross-section of a wave. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Engineering: a portable pumping engine, used in Egypt. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Carpentry: the pump on Notre Dame bridge, section. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A Dragor water pump for raising water from a well, and uses of abundant clean water; advertising Dragor water pumps. Colour lithograph by P. Igert, 1935.
  • A group of drinkers are disrupted by a water pump telling them to take only "the pledge". Etching, c. 1844, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: irrigation on the Han River. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: irrigation on the Han River. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Engineering: a steam-driven pump in use on a building site in Spring Gardens, Charing Cross. Coloured lithograph by Maclure and Macdonald, 1879.
  • A new well, fitted with a Dragor water pump, contrasted with an old well using a bucket on a winch; advertising Dragor water pumps. Colour lithograph by Jelb, 1935.
  • Engineering: a Cornish steam engine used for pumping water in London.
  • Longitudinal section of the Boulton & Watt engine erected at the East London Water Works, Old Ford / Thomas Wicksteed ; G. Gladwin.
  • Six men and a woman drink and smoke round a table outside a country tavern, behind them children watch a woman pump water. Etching by J. Browne and engraving by W. Woollett, 1767, after C. Dusart.