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  • Inventions: various things beginning with "A". Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Inventions: various types of pistons and plasters. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
  • Inventions: various illustrations taken from mediaeval or later manuscripts. Process print, 1905.
  • Inventions: cross-sections and elevations of various pumps. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
  • Inventions: the pantograph and different kinds of odometer. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1823.
  • Inventions: a rat-trap (top) a bellows (centre) and an electrical capacitor [?] (below). Engraving.
  • Inventions: various items including a fountain-pen, a pendulum, and a pantograph. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
  • Inventions: various items including a fountain-pen, a pendulum, and a pantograph. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
  • Inventions: various items including fountains, a Greek-key fret, and a fourchee. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
  • Inventions: various items including a fountain-pen, a pendulum, and a pantograph. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
  • Engineering: an assortment of inventions. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Engineering: an assortment of inventions. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Engineering: an assortment of inventions. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Engineering: an assortment of inventions. Engraving by J. de Gangotti after F. de Botella.
  • Engineering: an assortment of inventions. Engraving by J. de Gangotti after F. de Botella.
  • Inventions shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1867 or 1878): a set of measuring devices for a meteorological station, a metal dish, and a table clock. Wood engraving.
  • Machinery: various inventions, including a pile-driving hammer, a fountain pen, and several kinds of pump. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Advertisement for the Inventions Exhibition, South Kensington; with groups of elegant men and women in a London street, within a frame decorated with winged boys and flowers. Engraving, 1885, after F. Bartolozzi.
  • Three inventions: a torsion-bar for measuring forces, a drill-bit, and a lens. Engraving by Mutlow, c. 1812, after J. Farey.
  • Two figures, Mr Punch and his cat, with springs on their feet, standing in a museum of modern inventions. Wood engraving after L. Sambourne, 1878.
  • An account of inventions and improvements in surgical instruments / made by John Weiss ... with a selection of cases wherein they have been ... employed.
  • An account of inventions and improvements in surgical instruments / made by John Weiss ... with a selection of cases wherein they have been ... employed.
  • The jewell house of art and nature. Conteining divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation and moulding / [Sir Hugh Plat].
  • Thesaurus chirurgiae : the chirurgical and anatomical works ... Composed according to the doctrine of the circulation of the blood, and other new inventions of the moderns. Together with a treatise of the plague, illustrated with observations / Translated out of Low-Dutch.
  • Thesaurus chirurgiae : the chirurgical and anatomical works ... Composed according to the doctrine of the circulation of the blood, and other new inventions of the moderns. Together with a treatise of the plague, illustrated with observations / Translated out of Low-Dutch.
  • Thesaurus chirurgiae : the chirurgical and anatomical works ... Composed according to the doctrine of the circulation of the blood, and other new inventions of the moderns. Together with a treatise of the plague, illustrated with observations / Translated out of Low-Dutch.
  • The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.
  • The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.
  • The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.
  • The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.