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  • Civil engineering: the Conway box girder bridge, viewed from entrance level. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after himself.
  • Bridges: a double drawbridge for ships to pass through. Engraving.
  • Civil engineering: construction drawings for the Thames Embankment. Coloured drawing, 1865.
  • Civil engineering: sections of various dock walls. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Civil engineering: construction drawings for the Thames Embankment. Coloured drawing, 1865, after Sir J. Bazalgette.
  • Civil engineering: the Menai box girder bridge. Lithograph by Day & son, 1849, after E. Clark.
  • Workmen installing prefabricated steel sections of a canal. Process print.
  • Civil engineering: three types of wooden bridge. Engraving by R. Roffe, 1848.
  • Civil engineering: a steam-powered dredger in side elevation and plan, with details of the scoop. Engraving by Gray & son after G. Whitelaw.
  • Civil engineering: the Menai suspension bridge. Engraving by E. Turrell after W. A. Provis.
  • Civil engineering: canals (below), and a photometer (above). Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Building: a way of raising rotten floors. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after S. Staples.
  • Civil engineering: a canal passing through hilly terrain (above), and diagrams of canal locks and pressure-regulating mechanisms (below). Engraving.
  • Civil engineering: plan and elevation of the Kowno railway bridge, Russia. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins.
  • An underground tunnel with a truck on the track. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Civil engineering: one section of the Menai box girder bridge. Lithograph by Day & son, 1849, after M. Foster.
  • Civil engineering: the supporting masonry for the Menai box girder bridge. Lithograph by Day & son, 1849, after E. Clark.
  • Carpentry: the foundations for a bridge, laid on piles inside a caisson. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Civil engineering: plan and elevation of the Coblenz railway bridge, Germany. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins.
  • Carpentry: a caisson for driving piles. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Civil engineering: railway bridges at Kaunas. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins after F. H. Horne.
  • Carpentry: a dredger. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.
  • Civil engineering: the Menai box girder bridge. Engraving by S. Bradshaw after G. Dodgson.
  • Civil engineering: the Wearmouth Iron Bridge at Sunderland, with ships sailing beneath, and details (above). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
  • Civil engineering: various bridges in Britain and Europe. Engraving by Gray and son.
  • Civil engineering: various bridges, ancient and modern, around Europe, the Ponte Vecchio, Venice, in the centre. Engraving by A. Krausse.
  • The controlled explosion of an underwater mine to clear rocks in the East River between Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Wood engraving.
  • Carpentry: the foundations for a bridge, laid on piles without a caisson. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Civil engineering: the Kiefe suspension bridge. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.