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  • A multiple-way joint of timber and iron for barrack building. Engraving by G. Aikman after W. Ferrier.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great and surrounding area; iron gates leading to Westmorland Buildings, looking west. Photograph by G.W. Miller, 28 November 1909.
  • Joyfull newes out of the new-found worlde. Wherein are declared, the rare and singuler vertues of divers herbs, trees, plantes, oyles and stones, with their applications, as well to the use of phisicke, as of chirurgery ... Also the portrature of the said hearbs / ... Englished by John Frampton ... Newley corrected ... Whereunto are added three other bookes treating of the bezaar stone, the herb escuerconera, the properties of iron and steele, in medicine, and the benefit of snow.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
  • Engineering: diagrams of loading for simple and composite wooden beams. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.
  • Building: floor joists, simple and composite wooden beams. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.
  • The Palace of Art and Industry, exhibition of 1862: the interior, at the crossing, looking west. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin, 1862.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Civil engineering: the Wearmouth Iron Bridge at Sunderland, with ships sailing beneath, and details (above). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
  • South Kensington Museum: the interior of the north court, with exhibits and visitors. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin, 1862.
  • Architecture: a lock and key with gothic ornament. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing.
  • 'Anorvit' : an advance in iron therapy.
  • 'Anorvit' : an advance in iron therapy.
  • 'Anorvit' : an advance in iron therapy.
  • 'Anorvit' : an advance in iron therapy.
  • The forge of Vulcan: he sits by the forge as his assistants work on iron at the anvil. Engraving by Georges Reverdy.
  • Surrey Institution, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London: the interior of the rotunda, F. Accum lecturing. Coloured aquatint by J. C. Stadler, 1809, after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin.
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (4)
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery (8)
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.
  • Nurses in the laundry of a hospital. Photograph, 191-.
  • An iron-founder's forge. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1773, after J. Wright, 1772.
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).
  • Travels to distant parts of the world performed by Willam Hamilton, represented by an airship piloted by him that is acclaimed by people of different races. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China: three men examining a gun at the arsenal. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.