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  • Textiles: a silk weaving loom and a frame for silkworms. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Pyrotechny: designs for fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A printing press, rolling press, cider press and potash kiln with constituent parts. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Urogenital system: six figures showing male and female urogenital organs. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1771/1783.
  • Pyrotechny: various designs for fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Pyrotechny: various fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Skeleton, front view, with bones of the skull: seventeen figures. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1771/1783.
  • Skeleton with left arm extended, front view, and skull bones. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1771/1783.
  • Technology: details of a lock mechanism. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Pyrotechny: various fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: a weaving loom (above), with two shuttles and the upper frame (below). Engraving.
  • Inventions: various things beginning with "A". Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Pyrotechny: a selection of fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: various water-driven machines. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Two écorché horses: left and right side views. Line engraving with etching by A. Bell, 1770/1800?.
  • Mechanics: forces, statics and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mathematics: details of a dividing engine for making mathematical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Seven diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Brain and sensory organs: ten figures showing dissections of the brain, eye and ear. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1771/1783.
  • Hydraulics: various water-driven machines. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Skeleton with left arm extended, side view, with eighteen further figures of skull bones and teeth. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1771/1783.
  • Cross-sections of seven different figures of the pregnant uterus. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Pyrotechnics: elevations of machinery with details of various components used in the making of fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A water-wheel, cistern and detail of water-wheel for raising water at Blair Drummond, Perthshire. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock face (left), and mechanism (right). Engraving by A. Bell, ca. 1798.
  • Glass: weighing equipment (above), inside a plate glass factory (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: forces and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.