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  • Electrical machine designed by John Wesley, 18th c.
  • Apparatus used by Galvani - small plate electrostatic machine
  • Engineering: a pipe-boring machine and details. Engraving, 1754.
  • A machine for the draining and working of mines.
  • Electrical machine, believed to have been used by Galavni.
  • Textiles: a beating machine for flax and hemp. Engraving.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials. Engraving.
  • Blunt's electrotherapeutic machine. Invented by Edward Nairne, 1800-1827.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.
  • Boy working machine for fixing tags to boot-laces.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, plan. Engraving.
  • A hand-powered, crank-driven, milling machine. Engraving, 174-.
  • A machine opperator, Nanking arsenal, Nanking, Jiangsu province, China
  • Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
  • Farming: a patented steam-driven threshing machine. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • Agriculture: a machine for sowing seed. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • The stretching machine under the town hall at Nuremberg. Etching.
  • Electricity: an electro-static machine charging three Leyden Jars. Engraving.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, side elevation. Engraving.
  • Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.
  • Textiles: a roving machine for cotton manufacture. Engraving, c. 1858.
  • Two men are working at a machine for making ice. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven cutting machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
  • A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.
  • Waterpumping machine, manufactured by Kleff & Co., Nuremburg. Photograph, ca. 1936.
  • A hand-powered milling machine, worked by two labourers. Engraving, 174-.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
  • The handles of a machine are being turned by small people as a figure in the machine is flattened and stretched. Coloured etching by G.A. Sasso after himself.
  • A large cylindrical machine with cogs and keys for making music. Engraving.