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  • A water-mill, surrounded by vignettes showing the use of mill machinery. Colour lithograph by C. Bethmont.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: machinery manufactured by the Alsace Machine Company, Mülhausen. Photograph, 1904.
  • Steam powered machinery in Po-wu hsin-pien: Part 1: ch'u-chi (textbook on natural sciences)
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: machinery manufactured by the American Well Works company. Photograph, 1904.
  • Treatment of a horse with glanders; examples of ploughing machinery and a flax spinning machine (?). Etching, 1760/1820?.
  • Pyrotechnics: elevations of machinery with details of various components used in the making of fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: electrical machinery in the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, Belfort exhibit. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: electrical machinery in the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, Belfort exhibit. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy: machinery manufactured by the Bethlehem Steel Company. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: hydraulic machinery produced by the Stillwell-Beirce and Smith-Vaile Company of Dayton, Ohio. Photograph, 1904.
  • The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago: a view of the Court of Honour, Peristyle and Agricultural Hall, seen from the Machinery Hall. Chromolithograph with gouache after a painting by J.R. Key, 1894.
  • Extraordinary novelty! : exhibition of the Eccaleobion whereby life in countless thousands of animal beings, from a wren to an eagle, is produced by machinery... : at 121 Pall Mall.
  • A hand which has suffered a bad wound while in contact with machinery owing to a finger ring which has broken and torn the flesh. Colour lithograph by E. Lukács, 1950.
  • A sculpture in a barrow drawn along on a sledge to its intended location in a church; with diagrams below of the machinery for positioning it. Engraving by R. Bénard after P. Falconet and Bourgeois.
  • Luxor, Egypt; blacksmith selling his wares. Shows men, one with a goat, examining metal implements. Trades such as smithing are often performed by landless villagers who are often amongst the poorest groups. In 1990, as much as 40% of the rural population was landless. These people often provide village services including carpentry, machinery maintenance, and livestock herding or cultivate land for absentee landlords as tenants and sharecroppers. Photographed in January 1990.
  • Many types of printing machine, with details of their mechanisms. Engraving by W. H. Lizars after himself, 1830.
  • Textiles: a lathe used in comb manufacture. Engraving, 1808, by H. Mutlow.
  • Building: a stone-crushing machine (left), and plan of the crushing-mill (right). Engraving.
  • A paddle-driven beam-engine suction pump for raising water, used at London Bridge. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after J. Farey.
  • Mechanics: various machines. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Dyeing: dyers' and fullers' mills for extracting plant dyes. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Water-wheel at London Bridge for supplying water from the Thames to the City of London. Engraving, 1749.
  • Bridges: a drawbridge, details of the winding mechanism. Engraving.
  • Dyeing: vats and cauldrons for extracting indigo. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • A man winding a large cider press. Engraving, late 18th century (?).
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Engineering: a portable windlass used in moving goods. Engraving by J. Taylor after C. Varley.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.