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  • Hydraulics: a hydro-pneumatic workbench. Engraving by A. W. Warren after R. Cocking.
  • Hydraulics: a hydro-pneumatic workbench, details. Engraving by A. W. Warren after R. Cocking.
  • Ship-building: plan and elevations showing a way of emptying holds. Etching by Mutlow.
  • Taps and dies for cutting screw threads, and a water-tight window: cross-sections, and details. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after C. Varley.
  • Mechanics: a type of clamp. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Hydraulics: a pressure equalizing device. Engraving by Eastgate.
  • Engineering: a moving mangle and washboard, plan, elevations, and details. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.
  • Engineering: a patent furnace with continuous solid-fuel feed. Coloured lithograph.
  • Textiles: three patent diagrams of apparatus for treating fabric. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1856.
  • Agriculture: kilns, plans and vertical sections. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.
  • Hydraulics: a lever-operated pump. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after C. Varley.
  • Textiles: a mechanical carding device. Engraving.
  • Hydraulics: section and details of the Smeaton pump. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: a lever-operated forge hammer and anvil, in plan and three-quarter view. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Building: a way of raising rotten floors. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after S. Staples.
  • Engineering: a centring chuck mechanism for a lathe: elevations, cross-section, and details. Engraving by J. Davis after J. Clement.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819, after J. Farey.
  • Engineering: a centring chuck mechanism for a lathe, elevations, cross-section, and details. Engraving by E. Turrell after J. Clement.
  • Textiles: a type of Jacquard card for silk weaving. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Textiles: a specialized loom for embroidery. Engraving by G. Gladwin.
  • Textiles: elevations and details of a power loom. Engraving.
  • Machinery: a double-action steam hammer. Engraving by J. W. Lowry.
  • Textiles: a trammeling mechanism for threads. Engraving by W. Kelsall after C. Varley.
  • Two chuck mechanisms for an engineer's lathe: elevations, cross-section, and details. Engraving by J. Bacon after J. Clement.
  • Boer War: collecting the wounded from the battlefield using newly invented ambulance transport. Reproduction after a watercolour by F. Craig.
  • Portraits of Chamberlen family.
  • Ear trumpet, 19th century
  • Popular science, Arthur Mee, 1912.