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  • Hydraulics: a water-wheel with a pressure relieving device, side elevation. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after J. Pinchback.
  • A water-wheel, cistern and detail of water-wheel for raising water at Blair Drummond, Perthshire. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Five diagrams of a cider mill, cider press and water-wheel. Engraving, c. 1790 (?).
  • A Japanese fisherman on a lake shore pulling in his nets. Watercolour, c.1860.
  • Hydraulics: a water-wheel with a pressure relieving device, end elevation and plan. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after J. Pinchback.
  • Hydraulics: different kinds of waterwheel. Engraving by Lowry, 1819, after J. Farey.
  • Hydraulics: a pressure equalizing device. Engraving by Eastgate.
  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • 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.
  • A man raising water with a water-wheel during a famine in India. Wood engraving after J. Calvert, 1877.
  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • A water-wheel, cistern and detail of water-wheel for raising water at Blair Drummond, Perthshire. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hydraulics: different kinds of waterwheel. Lithograph by Mackay & Kirkwood, 1860.
  • A waterfall in Amalfi, driving a wheel outside an iron-works or iron mine. Drawing by J.Ph. Hackert, 1790.
  • Hydraulics: different kinds of waterwheel. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1817, after J. Farey.