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  • Textiles: a loom for silk weaving, in an interior. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Clocks: a striking mechanism. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after C. Varley.
  • Glass: a wire-drawing machine for producing the lead cames used for glazing windows. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Industry: a hot-air drying apparatus. Coloured process print.
  • Textiles: parts of a loom used for ribbon weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Lucotte.
  • Machinery: a double-action steam hammer. Engraving by J. W. Lowry.
  • Technology: details of a lock mechanism. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: a pair of large presses for block printing calico. Engraving by J. Carter after T. Allom, 1834.
  • Machines: a steel processing furnace at Paris. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Engineering: cross section of the Bramah planing machine. Engraving by Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
  • A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven cutting machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
  • A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front. Coloured pencil drawing by D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.
  • A clockwork (?) machine for engraving metal plates devised by Alexis-Marie Rochon. Engraving by D. Lizars.
  • A rotary lithographic [?] printing machine, tended by workmen, some wearing paper hats. Engraving.
  • 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.
  • Textiles: a loom for ribbon weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after J.-R. Lucotte.
  • Textiles: a lathe used in comb manufacture. Engraving, 1808, by H. Mutlow.
  • 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.
  • A man winding a large cider press. Engraving, late 18th century (?).
  • Machines: a steam-driven crane at Woolwich Arsenal. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Pigments: a mill for grinding colours, and an indigo grinding mill. Engraving by H. Mutlow.
  • Agriculture: two threshing machines. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • Textiles: two types of hand loom, and details of the shuttle. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
  • Engineering: side elevation of the Bramah lifting jib. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: a pile-driving hammer, mounted on existing piles, with two men operating it. Engraving after J. Besson.
  • Machinery: a pile driver, a fire engine, and a steam engine. Engraving by J. W. Lowry after P. Barlow.
  • Textiles: a loom with disembodied hands weaving, the design pinned to the top beam. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Physics: mechanical equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.