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  • Engineering: three-quarter views of two drilling machines, one with multiple heads. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Engineering: three-quarter views of two milling machines. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Engineering: three-quarter view of a large stand drill. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Hydraulics: a suction pump with an elaborate regulator. Engraving, 1754.
  • Rope-making: view of a rope-walk with boys winding ropes (top), details of various weights and a carriage (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Agriculture: a machine for sowing seed. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • 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.
  • Rope-making: details of various parts of a rope-making machine. Engraving by G. Daws.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Agriculture: a plough, and various other implements. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • Industry: a hot-air drying apparatus. Coloured process print.
  • Agriculture: two threshing machines. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • A workshop for the production of cardboard and papier-mache: workmen variously squeezing sheets in a press, driving a horse which powers the mill, and filling a mould (top), tools (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by B. L. Prevost.
  • 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.
  • Engineering: a portable jib and windlass used in moving goods. Engraving by J. Taylor after C. Varley.
  • Mills for grinding, and a Chinese man grinding at a muller, above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1817.
  • A letter-copying machine, and a device for levelling ground. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1813.
  • Agriculture: a plough and other implements. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Agriculture: a plough and other farming implements. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • A hand which has lost two fingers, owing to attempts to clean dangerous machines while they are running. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 1949.
  • Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
  • Five diagrams of a cider mill, cider press and water-wheel. Engraving, c. 1790 (?).
  • Agriculture: (above) a haymaking machine driven by a horse (five figures); (below) a hand-operated threshing machine. Coloured engraving, 1816.
  • Textiles: the use of the bobbin in tapestry weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Hydraulics: pumps and water-wheels. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie after himself, 1850.
  • Printing: a three-quarter view of a press made by Bacon & Donkins, with a detail of the eccentric gearing. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey, 1819.
  • Hydraulics: two human-driven [?] pumps. Woodcut, 1659.