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  • Building: floor joists, simple and composite wooden beams. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.
  • A nine-bladed reciprocating mechanical saw, lateral and end elevations. Engraving by Hare.
  • Men loading timber on to wagons, and horses pulling the wagons. Etching with aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1804.
  • Machines: a steam-driven crane, side and rear elevation. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Architecture: domes. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.
  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, on the left, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground, on the right the Royal Dockyard on the Isle of Dogs. Engraving.
  • Woodwork: a mechanical band-saw. Engraving after a photograph.
  • Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • The staircase, and two details of the woodwork, at 49 Great Ormond Street, Holborn. Pencil drawing, June 1882, attributed to J. P. Emslie.
  • Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Woodmen driving an ox-cart carrying baulks of timber. Etching by F. Bracquemond after A. DuBuisson.
  • Woodman and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Building: plan and elevations showing a way of supporting rotten joists. Etching by Mutlow.
  • Building: two floor plans, showing the layout of joists, and details (below). Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Various agricultural scenes of woodmen at work. Etching by W.H. Pyne after himself, 1802, with aquatint by J. Hill.
  • Joinery: a joiner's yard, with men at work (top), various types of joint (below). Engraving by Defehrt after Lucotte.
  • Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof geometries. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Engineering: a wide-span wooden truss-beam roof. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.
  • Architecture: various domes. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • A section through a sawing-shed, with a water-powered sawmill. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Architecture: trusses in Camden Chapel. Engraving by A. Dick, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Woodwork: a mechanical band-saw. Engraving by J. W. Lowry.
  • Building: timber and brick roofing details. Etching by [W. A. B.] 1850, after S. H. Brooks.
  • A street of wooden houses in Mora, with a church terminating the vista.
  • Engineering: details of various wooden domes. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.