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  • Various unlabelled items of brewing apparatus in horizontal and vertical section. Engraving by J. Moffat, c. 1830, after J. Farey.
  • A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.
  • Clocks: mechanism of a pocket watch. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • Textiles: a spinning jenny. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
  • Mechanics: a type of clamp. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Printing: a three-quarter view of a Bacon & Donkins press, with a detail of the eccentric gearing. Coloured engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey, 1819.
  • Textiles: a type of Jacquard card for silk weaving. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • George Adams demonstrates his electrotherapy machine to a woman and her daughter. Line engraving by J. Lodge, 1799, after T. Milne.
  • Textiles: a beating machine for flax and hemp. Engraving.
  • Glass: a wire-drawing machine for making lead cames. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Agriculture: a plough and other implements. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Agriculture: a plough and other implements. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • Paper making machine: a schematic side elevation (top), and a bird's-eye view (below), both lettered for a key. Engraving.
  • Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.
  • A labelled section through a brewhouse showing brewing utensils and machinery. Wood-engraving, c. 1847.
  • Francis Lowndes, an electrotherapist, treating a woman on an electrotherapy machine. Etching.
  • Textiles: a spinning machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. D. Herbert.
  • A timber bending machine (below), various pincers, vices, and bits [?] (above). Engraving by J. Rapkin.
  • Engineering: a machine for sifting coffee, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1845, by Simpson.
  • Clocks: an escapement mechanism (top), and a pendulum (below). Engraving by E. Kennion after C. Varley.
  • Engineering: Joseph Clement's constant-speed facing lathe, elevation, plan, and details. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.
  • Francis Lowndes, an electrotherapist, treating a woman on an electrotherapy machine. Etching.
  • A printing press, rolling press, cider press and potash kiln with constituent parts. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: a version of Crompton's mule. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • Clocks: a striking mechanism. Engraving by S. Porter after C. Varley.
  • Machinery: metal plating presses. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.
  • Textiles: a mechanical carding device. Engraving.
  • Agriculture: a plough, and various other implements. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • Clocks: side elevation of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Electrical machines: four figures showing various machines, with an illustration of George Adams demonstrating his medical electrical machine on a girl. Line engraving by J. Lodge and W. Grainger, after T. Milne and F. Blake, 1789.