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  • William Harvey. Metal bas relief by J.H.
  • Ecuadorian metal object with three holes, from Huigra
  • Nachet collection: microscope, brass with metal stand. Boulange, Paris.
  • For a genuine boost Dianavit : precious metal...Colliron.
  • For a genuine boost Dianavit : precious metal...Colliron.
  • Rebels impaled on wooden blocks with sharp metal spikes. Etching.
  • The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Calf Lymph in metal tubes.
  • A Montenegrin woman wearing national dress with a large metal belt.
  • Artificial left hand, wood with metal wrist plate and leather glove.
  • Artificial left hand, wood with metal wrist plate and leather glove.
  • Artificial left hand, wood with metal wrist plate and leather glove.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Tempera painting with metal cover (oklad).
  • Artificial left hand, wood with metal wrist plate and leather glove.
  • Machinery: metal plating presses. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.
  • An elaborate metal mortar, German, 1545. Etching by W.W. McCarty.
  • Workmen fitting metal casings to form an underground tunnel. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Workmen fitting the metal casings for an underground tunnel. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Eye-glasses. Horn-rims, bridge metal wrapped, with horn or leather, probably French.
  • A man is hammering at a metal container on an anvil. Wood engraving.
  • A workman lifting a metal bar and placing strain on his body. Colour lithograph.
  • A man is hammering metal strips onto a trunk he is making. Wood engraving.
  • 4 groups of heart and pear shaped stones, mounted in metal. Amulets. Mortillet collection, Paris.
  • Makers of scythes and sickels hammering a metal blade on an anvil. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: a metal bar. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Two soldiers stand arm-in-arm outside a building of corrugated metal (barracks?). Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A man is sitting at a work bench beating on metal with a hammer. Wood engraving.
  • Two soldiers stand arm-in-arm outside a building of corrugated metal (barracks?). Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A clockwork (?) machine for engraving metal plates devised by Alexis-Marie Rochon. Engraving by D. Lizars.