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  • Sticky wires for catching flies at the meat and fish market, prepared in Zanzibar, held up by a local man. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • An opened electric plug, an electric flex with exposed wires, and a newspaper article about death caused by a wrongly wired plug. Colour lithograph after Robin Day.
  • The National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London: a nurse attaches electrocardiograph wires to a patient in bed to record her heartbeat. Photograph, ca. 1922.
  • Angels drawn by children fly across red wires joined to syringes; advertising a family Christmas charity event in support of AIDS-affected children and their parents in Berlin. Colour lithograph for Kinder-AIDS-Forum e.V., 1993.
  • Radiograph by W.K. Roentgen: wire coil; 1895
  • A wire-drawer working at his bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Machinery: card wire maker. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.
  • Crown fitted to a tooth with the use of a twisted wire
  • Manufacture of iron wire and machinery used. Etching by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Nettuno, Italy: a thatched hut surrounded by wire and wood fencing. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.
  • Glass: a wire-drawing machine for making lead cames. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • "Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.
  • A wire-haired and a straight-haired greyhound resting on a forest clearing. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A wire wound around a wooden spool, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.
  • Glass: a wire-drawing machine for producing the lead cames used for glazing windows. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Side elevation (top) and plan (bottom) of a wire mill: both lettered for a key. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after Farey the younger.
  • Jeder hat so sein Ding : Wir wissen nicht, was der Gesundheitsminister empfiehlt. Wir raten, Dildos und Peitschen nur mit einem Partner zu benutzen / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Jörg Mang ; Gestaltung trashline.