Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

MechanicsReset filters
23 results
  • An introduction to natural philosophy. Or, Philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford anno Dom. 1700. To which are added the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion / By John Keill ... Translated from the last edition of the Latin.
  • The Mechanics' Institute and School of Science and Art, Keighley, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after Lockwood and Mawson.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry. In two books. Concerning mechanicall powers [and] motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks. Not before treated of in this language / By I[ohn] W[ilkins] M.A.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials. Engraving.
  • Mechanics: mills using water-power in various ways. Coloured engraving, 1816, by J. Pass.
  • A man is handing out issues of the Mechanic's magazine to engineers, and Archimedes moving the Earth using a plank as a lever. Colour engraving, 1824.
  • Sir Isaac Newtonʼs Principia / reprinted for Sir William Thomson ... and Hugh Blackburn.
  • Mechanics: forces, gears, axles and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Water-tower and engine-house, Worthing, Sussex. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after Rawlinson.
  • Mechanics: forces and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: illustrations of levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Coloured engraving.
  • Mechanics: levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Engraving.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials, for measuring force; and diagrams of weights and paths of descent. Engraving, after 1861.
  • A bearded old man and a young woman representing Philosophy and Art respectively: he points to a book about mechanics and science, while she points to a painting of the Nativity of Christ. Engraving by W. Ridgway after D. Huntington.
  • Burnley mechanics institution. Process print after J. Green.
  • Inventions: various things beginning with "A". Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry in two books, concerning mechanical powers [and] motions : being one of the most easie, pleasant, useful, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks ... / By J. Wilkins.
  • Mechanics: forces, statics and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: diagrams of forces, statics and dynamics. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Mechanics: forces and dynamics, pulleys. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mechanics: men using a dynamometer to measure forces. Coloured engraving, 1803, by J. Pass.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials, for measuring force. Engraving, after 1861.