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  • Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Engraving, 1861.
  • Machinery: a steam-driven water mill. Coloured drawing, 1854.
  • A water-mill, surrounded by vignettes showing the use of mill machinery. Colour lithograph by C. Bethmont.
  • Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Coloured drawing, 1823 or 1855.
  • Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Engraving by J. S. Virtue, 1862.
  • Items of farm equipment and machinery, including presses, churns and mills. Engraving by J. Hulett.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819, after J. Farey.
  • Mills for grinding, and a Chinese man grinding at a muller, above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1817.
  • A man winding a large cider press. Engraving, late 18th century (?).
  • A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.
  • Two men perhaps milling foodstuffs in a vat with a millwheel driven by two oxen. Gouache drawing, 18--.
  • A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark c. 1640. Engraving by C.
  • Five diagrams of a cider mill, cider press and water-wheel. Engraving, c. 1790 (?).
  • Agriculture: (above) a haymaking machine driven by a horse (five figures); (below) a hand-operated threshing machine. Coloured engraving, 1816.
  • A horse-drawn circular cider mill. Process print after a painting by E. Borough Johnson.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving by Cook.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving, 1737.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving, 1737.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving.
  • Farming: a patented steam-driven threshing machine. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • Engineering: three-quarter views of two milling machines. Engraving, c.1861.
  • A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.
  • Farming: a threshing machine designed by Richard Hornsby mounted on a cart: cutaway side elevation, and details. Wood engraving after R. Hornsby, 1862.
  • A wine press (top) and cider mill (bottom). Engraving, c. 1747.
  • Coinage: machinery used in the Royal Mint. Engraving.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Three men dance in the street as a crowd gathers on Blackfriars Bridge, London, to celebrate the destruction by fire of Albion Mills. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.