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  • Engineering: a patent furnace with continuous solid-fuel feed. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man is cutting wood for fuel and binding it into bundles to carry. Engraving.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a furnace (top), fuel wood on a barrow or handcart (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A man chopping twigs on a wooden block, perhaps as fuel (?) for an oven used in processing harvested tea. Gouache by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Carbs: fuel for life : Don't fall for the myth that all carbs are bad for you : They're an important part of a healthy diet.
  • Carbs: fuel for life : Don't fall for the myth that all carbs are bad for you : They're an important part of a healthy diet.
  • Four slaves in East Africa chained at the neck carrying brushwood fuel; other slaves chained at the neck working in rice fields. Wood engraving or process print after J.B. Zwecker after J.A. Grant.
  • Shake up your wake up... by changing one thing : It's fuel for the brain and gets your metabolism motoring - so raise a toast to the first dish of the day and change one thing to make your morning meal a healthier one.
  • Shake up your wake up... by changing one thing : It's fuel for the brain and gets your metabolism motoring - so raise a toast to the first dish of the day and change one thing to make your morning meal a healthier one.
  • Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
  • A woman lagging a hot-water tank. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman lagging a hot-water tank. Colour lithograph.
  • A two-bar electric fire with the upper bar crossed out and only the lower bar switched on, to save power. Colour lithograph.
  • A two-bar electric fire with the upper bar crossed out and only the lower bar switched on, to save power. Colour lithograph.
  • Soap bubble
  • Hupeh province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Hupeh province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Hupeh province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Hupeh province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: rising smoke as two West Indian men burn grass away from the side of a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica (L.) C.Martius): fruiting stem and fruit segments. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743.
  • Doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica (L.) C.Martius): leaf, sectioned stem, leaf stalk and whole plant. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.
  • The bathing house (hammam), the Bab Sidra mosque, Alexandria, Egypt: during a typhus epidemic. Photograph, 1915/1925 (?).
  • Everybody should read these facts concerning cookery and health / British Home Utilities Co. Ltd.
  • Everybody should read these facts concerning cookery and health / British Home Utilities Co. Ltd.
  • Everybody should read these facts concerning cookery and health / British Home Utilities Co. Ltd.
  • Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • G20 leaders : to end AIDS, treat all people! : 15 million by 2015 / HealthGAP.org.