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  • A coachman with a whip and a woman with a kettle: the man mistrusts anything using steam (implying steam trains). Pencil and ink wash by S. Jenner, ca. 1830.
  • Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.
  • 4-4-2T, No. 41 built at Melton Constable 1904 : Orisulf : safe and effective in bronchitis and a wide range of infections.
  • 4-4-2T, No. 41 built at Melton Constable 1904 : Orisulf : safe and effective in bronchitis and a wide range of infections.
  • 4-4-2T, No. 41 built at Melton Constable 1904 : Orisulf : safe and effective in bronchitis and a wide range of infections.
  • 4-4-2T, No. 41 built at Melton Constable 1904 : Orisulf : safe and effective in bronchitis and a wide range of infections.
  • Ship-building: long and short sections (top), and plan and side elevation (below) of a paddle-steamer. Engraving by J. Pass, 1827.
  • Fairbairn's six H.P high pressure column engine / W. J. Lindsey.
  • Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Engraving by J. S. Virtue, 1862.
  • Three men dance in the street as a crowd gathers on Blackfriars Bridge, London, to celebrate the destruction by fire of Albion Mills. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.
  • Five labelled sections through parts of a porter brewery. Engraving by W. Lowry, c. 1816, after J. Farey.
  • A labelled section through a porter brewery. Engraving by Mutlow, c. 1812, after J. Farey.
  • Salomon de Caus incarcerated in the mental asylum of Bicêtre. Lithograph by Lafosse after J.J. Lecurieux, 1845.