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  • Mechanics: mills using water-power in various ways. Coloured engraving, 1816, by J. Pass.
  • Rolling-mills powered by water: cross-section and various components. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.
  • A water-mill, surrounded by vignettes showing the use of mill machinery. Colour lithograph by C. Bethmont.
  • Machinery: a steam-driven water mill. Coloured drawing, 1854.
  • Leaflet advertising Bromo paper toilet tissue manufactured by Diamond Mills Paper Company of 44 Murray Street, New York, probably about 1878 or early 1880s. The paper contained the "disinfectants and curatives" Bromo chloralum and carbolic acid "as to render its use not only a positive preventive of that most distressing and almost universal complaint, the Piles, but also a thorough deodorizer and disinfectant of the water closet." The paper had a watermark "Bromo" in every sheet.
  • Pigments: a water-powered multiple pestle mill for crushing madder plants. Engraving.
  • A grinding mill operated by water power. Engraving, 16--, after J. Besson.
  • Carpentry: a water-mill, mounted on a barge. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Five diagrams of a cider mill, cider press and water-wheel. Engraving, c. 1790 (?).
  • Carpentry: a water-mill, for pulling boats through a lock. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, short section and plan of the water-wheel mechanism. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, long section and plan. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: a water-mill, used for pulling boats through a lock [?]. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • A working slate quarry: a horse-mill for bringing up water for washing slate, and the instruments used. Etching by Bénard.
  • A water-driven paper mill on the left hand side: with workmen on the right hand side making sheets of paper, and laying them in a press, all parts lettered for a key. Engraving, 1752.
  • Farming: a milling machine for corn, driven by a water-wheel, three-quarter view. Engraving by Seal, c.1750.
  • A young man working in a watermill holds a large flat basket of bran and gazes adoringly at a young woman as she measures out bran into a drum. Lithograph after Jules David.
  • A mill in Northern Ireland in which flax is processed to make linen: (right) the flax is broken between rotating rollers, then (left) scutched by blades on a rotating wheel; a woman with a child carries away bundles of flax. Coloured stipple engraving by W. Hincks, 1791.
  • Fair Mount water works, Philadelphia: with the Race Bridge. Coloured engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after C. Burton.
  • Schuylkill Water Works, Philadelphia: panoramic view with the river. Coloured engraving by J.C. Armytage after W.H. Bartlett.
  • Friar Bacon's Study, Oxford: by the river. Etching by B. Green.
  • Fairmount Waterworks, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia. Coloured engraving by Ch. de Lalaisse after J. Noël.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Coloured line engraving.
  • Panorama of the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Engraving by S. and N. Buck, 1749.
  • The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Kate Mills, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Physics: effects of weight, sound, heat, light, electricity and magnetism on solids, liquids and gases. Colour lithograph by C. Bethmont.
  • Merry Christmas / Paul.
  • Merry Christmas / Paul.