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  • Engineering: a large pumping station. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Hydraulics: pumps and water-wheels. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie after himself, 1850.
  • Hamburg's floating baths: plans and elevations, and detail of filter machine. Line engraving by Mutlow.
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: irrigation on the Han River. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Examples of hydrostatics: Aldersea's engine for raising water, London Bridge water works, a syringe, Tantalus's cup, and a cross-section of a wave. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Hydraulics: two human-driven [?] pumps. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Hydraulics: a suction pump with an elaborate regulator. Engraving, 1754.
  • Ship-building: a centrifugal bilge-pump. Engraving by R. Erskine after himself, 1765.
  • The large waterwheel at the waterworks on London Bridge. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
  • Machinery: various inventions, including a pile-driving hammer, a fountain pen, and several kinds of pump. Engraving by W. Lowry.
  • Hydraulics: a pump in side elevation and cross-section. Engraving.
  • Engineering: a lighthouse, with a pump clearing a wreck. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Hydraulics: a pump for sanitary use [?]. Engraving by Porter.
  • A Dragor water pump for raising water from a well, and uses of abundant clean water; advertising Dragor water pumps. Colour lithograph by P. Igert, 1935.
  • Hydraulics: designs for pumps. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Farey, ca. 1813.
  • Engineering: a portable pumping engine, used in Egypt. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Engineering: a pump for irrigating fields. Engraving, [post 1861].
  • Hydraulics: pumps, and a steam-engine. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Farey, ca. 1813.
  • Hydraulics: a lobed water-pump mechanism. Engraving by Mutlow after Blunt.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Carpentry: the pump on Notre Dame bridge, plan. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A paddle-driven beam-engine suction pump for raising water, used at London Bridge. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after J. Farey.
  • A man operating waterworks. Engraving.
  • Six men and a woman drink and smoke round a table outside a country tavern, behind them children watch a woman pump water. Engraving.
  • Hydraulics: three fire-engines [?]. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Engineering: a large harbour, with a pumping station. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: irrigation on the Han River. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Hydraulics: hydraulic equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Hydraulics: various designs for pumps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Engineering: a steam-driven pump in use on a building site in Spring Gardens, Charing Cross. Coloured lithograph by Maclure and Macdonald, 1879.