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  • Clocks: Richard Greene's museum at Lichfield, showing the "Lichfield" clock, two men discussing it. Engraving, 1748, after H. White.
  • Clocks: fusee-engine, or taper-cutting lathe. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland?].
  • Clocks: details of clock mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Measurement: a scholar making observations of a pendulum, with two servants, one writing at a table. Engraving by J. Basire, 1822, after J. Goldingham, 1821.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Aquatint by R.B. Peake after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Clocks: composite pendulum, side and front view with details. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Eton College, Berkshire: a couple with their dog walking through the school courtyard by the chapel. Etching by G. Gabrielli, 1875.
  • Corpus Christi College and St. Botolph's Church, Oxford. Line engraving by J. & H.S. Storer after W. Wilkins.
  • Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh: figures strolling in the grounds. Line engraving by Parr after J. Elphinstone.
  • A wealthy patient falls over having a tooth extracted with vigour by a fashionable dentist. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Clocks: the mechanism of a large clock. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Clocks: a watch factory at Waltham, Massachusetts. Wood engraving by A J H.
  • Inventions shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1867 or 1878): a set of measuring devices for a meteorological station, a metal dish, and a table clock. Wood engraving.
  • Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock face (left), and mechanism (right). Engraving by A. Bell, ca. 1798.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Clocks: a repeater clock mechanism, exploded view. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
  • Clocks: diagrams for setting-out the dial of a sextant [?]. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, [1809].
  • Richard Greene's museum at Lichfield, the "Lichfield clock" standing among cabinets of curiosities. Engraving by Cook.
  • The Lying-in Hospital and Rotunda, Dublin, Ireland. Etching, 1821, after G. Petrie.
  • Crossley Orphan Home and School, Halifax, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1865, after W.G. Smith after Paull & Ayliffe.
  • Clocks: the mechanism of an alarm clock. Engraving after J. Farey.
  • Clocks: the astronomical clock in Strasbourg Cathedral, with onlookers. Lithograph, 18--.
  • Clocks: the mechanism of a chiming clock (top), and the notation of the chimes (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • Clocks: a clock face (top), and mechanism (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock (top), and a Ferguson clock (below). Engraving by J. Taylor.
  • The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen. Engraving, 1656.
  • Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.
  • St James's Hospital, Doncaster. Line engraving by T.H. King after G. Haughton, 1852.
  • Clocks: a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].