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  • A busy street scene with the baths and pump room, Bath. Lithograph by W. Gauci after A. Woodroffe.
  • Machinery: various inventions, including a pile-driving hammer, a fountain pen, and several kinds of pump. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • 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 paddle-driven beam-engine suction pump for raising water, used at London Bridge. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after J. Farey.
  • 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.
  • A group of drinkers are disrupted by a water pump telling them to take only "the pledge". Etching, c. 1844, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics. Etching by C.L. de Lingée after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.
  • Engineering: a steam-driven pump in use on a building site in Spring Gardens, Charing Cross. Coloured lithograph by Maclure and Macdonald, 1879.
  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics or 'natural philosophy'. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.
  • Boys are being told off for breaking a window, two more boys are hiding behind the pump. Engraving by H. Lemon after W.H. Knight.
  • A boy is accused of breaking a shop window while the real culprits hide behind a water pump. Engraving by H. Lemon after W.H.Knight.
  • John Bull being force-fed via a stomach pump, by a queue of people; representing Britain's numerous political problems. Colour photomechanical reproduction after S. Pritchard, 1913.
  • Mobile disinfection service, Cuba: Men are shown unloading a pump and hose from a small horse-drawn van, in readiness to disinfect a building. Photograph, 1902.
  • A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
  • Broad Street (latterly Broadwick Street), Soho, with a white silhouette replica of the Broad Street pump identifed by John Snow as a source of cholera-infected water. Photograph.
  • The Queen's levée and society figures drinking the waters in the pump room with a key to important society figures, Bath. Line engraving by J. Alais, 1817, after Mr. Marsh.
  • Bath, Somerset: bathers and onlookers in the courtyard containing the royal baths and great pump room, with a statue of King Bladud, founder of the baths. Engraving by W. Elliott after T. Robins.
  • Bath, Somerset: bathers and onlookers in the courtyard containing the royal baths and great pump room, with a statue of King Bladud, founder of the baths. Engraving by W. Elliott after T. Robins.
  • Model of the pump room at the Kissingen Baths, Germany: men and women are shown drinking the waters, while beneath them the mechanics of the water supply is shown in cross-section. Photograph, 1936.
  • 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.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • Example of the first type of Boyle's air-pump, made on the continent. Marked with a French lily and a little vase. Perhaps made in France. In the Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natur weten schappen at Leyden.
  • Hydraulics: two human-driven [?] pumps. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Hydraulics: pipes, pumps, fountains, etc. Engraving c.1861.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.