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  • Hydrostatics: scientific equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Engineering: hydrostatics, illustrations of pressure gradients. Engraving.
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Engineering: hydrostatics, illustrations of pressure gradients. Engraving.
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Sketches of hydrostatics after L. da Vinci
  • Engineering: hydrostatics, illustrations of pressure gradients. Engraving.
  • Hydraulics: the principles of hydrostatics. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850.
  • Examples of hydrostatics: Aldersea's engine for raising water, London Bridge water works, a syringe, Tantalus's cup, and a cross-section of a wave. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Hydraulics: section and details of the Bramah hydrostatic press. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Hydraulics: section and details of the Bramah hydrostatic press. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Medicina hydrostatica: or, hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica. Shewing, how by the weight that divers bodies, us'd in physick, have in water; one may discover whether they be genuine or adulterate. To which is subjoyn'd, a previous hydrostatical way of estimating ores / [Robert Boyle].
  • Medicina hydrostatica: or, hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica. Shewing, how by the weight that divers bodies, us'd in physick, have in water; one may discover whether they be genuine or adulterate. To which is subjoyn'd, a previous hydrostatical way of estimating ores / [Robert Boyle].
  • Medicina hydrostatica: or, hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica. Shewing, how by the weight that divers bodies, us'd in physick, have in water; one may discover whether they be genuine or adulterate. To which is subjoyn'd, a previous hydrostatical way of estimating ores / [Robert Boyle].
  • Medicina hydrostatica: or, hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica. Shewing, how by the weight that divers bodies, us'd in physick, have in water; one may discover whether they be genuine or adulterate. To which is subjoyn'd, a previous hydrostatical way of estimating ores / [Robert Boyle].
  • Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.
  • Hydraulics: diagrams of water pressure and force action. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Hydraulics: diagrams of water pressure and capillary action. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1806.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.
  • Hydraulics: section and details of the Smeaton pump. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • Science: a machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
  • Science: a complex machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances, an observer in early eighteenth-century dress looks on. Engraving.
  • Two gentlemen inspect the water from the new Artesian well in Grenelle, just outside Paris. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.
  • Statical essays: containing vegetable statics; or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables ... Also a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air / [Stephen Hales].