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  • Pulleys of electric motor and milking pump
  • Pulleys for use in lifting marble. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Mechanics: levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Engraving.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials. Engraving.
  • Mechanics: forces and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: forces and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: illustrations of levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Coloured engraving.
  • Mechanics: forces, statics and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: forces, gears, axles and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials, for measuring force. Engraving, after 1861.
  • A man performing exercises in a frame with weights and pulleys. Lithograph by E. Parry & Co.
  • Stonehenge, England: straightening a leaning stone: pulleys, ropes and a wooden frame attached to the stone. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and pulleys: partly raised. Photograph, 1901.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials, for measuring force; and diagrams of weights and paths of descent. Engraving, after 1861.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and pulleys: north west view. Photograph, 1901.
  • A surgeon and two assistants using pulleys and ropes to aid traction for manipulating the body of a male patient. Woodcut, 1575.
  • Stonehenge, England: Professor William Gowland (centre) watching the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and pulleys. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • The inside of a jail of the Inquisition, with a priest supervising his scribe while men and women are suspended from pulleys, tortured on the rack or burnt with torches. Etching.
  • The inside of a jail of the Spanish Inquisition, with a priest supervising his scribe while men and women are suspended from pulleys, tortured on the rack or burnt with torches. Etching.
  • Milking machine: checking pulley alignment
  • A pulley system in a mine. Woodcut by Hans Rudolph Manuel, 1557.
  • A mine: cross-sections of a pulley and tunnels in the mine. Etching by W. Lowry.
  • A man is using a heavy weight on a pulley system to stamp out buttons. Wood engraving.
  • A man exercising his arm muscles on a pulley system with weights attached. Lithograph by W. Hunter.
  • Two men using a pulley drawn by oxen to draw water from a well. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.