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  • A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.
  • A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.