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  • A man represented as a mop; a woman as a broom. Coloured etching after J. Gearing, 1801.
  • Printing: a three-quarter view of a Bacon & Donkins press, with a detail of the eccentric gearing. Coloured engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey, 1819.
  • Printing: a three-quarter view of a press made by Bacon & Donkins, with a detail of the eccentric gearing. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey, 1819.
  • Saltare from the North East of England. Built for the manufacture of Alpaca and Mohair. Opened by Titus Salt in 1853. Planned with admirable arrangement for ensuring the health and comfort of the workpeople, and preventing accidents from the shafting and gearing.
  • Engineering: two intermeshed crown gears. Coloured drawing, 1845.
  • Mechanics: forces, gears, axles and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: diagrams of levers, forces, gears, and weights. Engraving by Fletcher.
  • Engineering: lifting gear with block and tackle. Engraving by T. Bradley.
  • A dead victim of cholera at Sunderland in 1832. Coloured lithograph attributed to J.W. Gear.
  • A dead victim of cholera at Sunderland in 1832. Coloured lithograph attributed to J.W. Gear.
  • Shipping: three views of large propellors, with lifting gear. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Engineering: a worm gear and spur gearwheel, side and end elevations. Coloured drawing, 1845.
  • Kimberley, South Africa: Kimberley mine washing gear and floors. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Malta: view of the Naval dockyard with heavy lifting gear newly installed.. Wood engraving, 1865, after J. Kiddie.
  • Engineering: a sway beam engine and an expansion gear. Lithograph by Martin and Hood, 1852, after C.J. Light.
  • Three members of the Roman Campagne Malaria Commission carrying their gear. Coloured pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca 1900.
  • Two dwarfs with hunting gear; representing the easy life of game hunting. Coloured etching by M. Engelbrecht, after 1715.
  • Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A woman (possibly intended to be African) with pouting lips in elaborate head gear. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776 (?), after himself.
  • Three members of the Roman Campagne Malaria Commission with a lady carrying their gear. Coloured pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca 1900.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.
  • Merlin's mechanical chair for the elderly or infirm: the design incorporates hand-cranks, wheels, gears and an adjustable back and footrest. Coloured etching with aquatint, 1811.
  • A man dressed in bondage gear, dark glasses and cap holding his penis; advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of HIV by the Core Program. Lithograph by Charles R. Moniz.
  • Two men dressed in sadomasochism gear with the letters S/M Safer Sex; part of the Talking Sex Safer S/M Education Project by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Francis M. Patenuade.
  • Two men in sadomasochism gear performing oral sex; advertisement for condoms by AIDES, Numero Vert and the SIDA Info Service and Agence Française de Lutte contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph by Andreas Mahl.
  • Sadomasochism leather gear including a mask, a dildo, handcuffs, nipple piercing chains, a collar and a whip; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by J. Mang and Trash Line Design for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A supermarket freezer counter from which a variety of people shop including a diver in full protective gear with the reassuring message 'Forget frog/diving equipment. Do not be afraid of getting AIDS in a supermarket. So take it cool'; an advertisement for the AIDS-sekretariatet, Sundhedsstyrelsen. Colour lithograph by Freddy Pedersen/Laursen, ca. 1995.
  • A bare-chested man against a brick wall wearing sadomasochism gear including leather trousers, a leather jacket, a leather belt across his chest, a pierced nipple and a belt bearing an eagle logo; with the message in German: ''randy on safer sex'; an advertisement for safer hard sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, sponsored by Loge 70 Schweiz. Colour lithograph by Hans Wilner.
  • A bare-chested man against a brick wall wearing sadomasochism gear including leather trousers, a studded arm strap, a cap and a pierced nipple, pierces his thumb with the sharp end of a knife; with the front cover of a brochure with the title 'Safer Sex Hard'; an advertisement for safer hard sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph by Hans Winer and Loge 70.
  • Engineering: a large cogwheel, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1875.