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A man exercising his arm muscles on a pulley system with weights attached. Lithograph by W. Hunter.
Reference: 34465i- Books
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The pulley method for advancing the rectus : with indications for its employment / by A. E. Prince.
Prince, A. E.Date: [1887]- Pictures
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An old man rests his head on his hand; cherubs play in a room filled with mechanical instruments; representing mechanical philosophy (or 18th century physics). Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1816.
Date: 13 April 1816Reference: 25677i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
Date: 20 January 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/15/3Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Two men using a pulley drawn by oxen to draw water from a well. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 576242i- Pictures
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A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
Reference: 23184i- Pictures
A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.
Date: 1894Reference: 16761i- Archives and manuscripts
‘The last inch is the important inch. Encouraging the patient to make a final effort in using his hip joint’ using pulley apparatus, c.1950s
Date: c.1950sReference: SA/CSP/Q.1/127Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy- Pictures
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The Holy Family in a stable; a man operates a well outside. Engraving by A. Durer, 1504.
Date: 1504Reference: 21821i- Pictures
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Sir Gerald Graham directing the hoisting of patients on board a hospital ship, Sudan. Wood engraving by J. Nash after C.E. Fripp, 1885.
Fripp, Charles Edwin, 1854-1906.Date: 1885Reference: 20910i- Pictures
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Boer War: a busy field hospital storeroom with baskets of Red Cross medical supplies. Charcoal drawing by P.F.S. Spence.
Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton), 1868-1933.Reference: 23291i- Pictures
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A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving (?) after H. Soltau.
Soltau, Hermann Wilhelm, 1812-1861.Reference: 43416i- Pictures
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A torture chamber of the Spanish Inquisition with suspected heretics having their feet burned or being suspended with a rope from a pulley while scribes note down confessions. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1722Reference: 43213i- Pictures
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A torture chamber where one victim is tied up and suspended from a pulley while being interrogated by two scribes, while another victim is suspended from the ceiling and lowered onto a spike with his rectum. Etching by L.M. after V.V.
Reference: 43396i- Books
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A treatise of the mechanical powers. I. Of the lever, II. The wheel and axle, III. The pulley, IV. The screw, V. The wedge, and, VI. The inclined plane. To which are added, several useful improvements in mill work, bevel, geer, friction. The best shape for teeth in wheels, &c. By John Imison.
Imison, John, -1788.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A treatise of the mechanical powers. I. Of the lever, II. The wheel and axle, III. The pulley, IV. The screw, V. The wedge, and, VI. The inclined plane. To which are added, several useful improvements in mill work, bevel geer, friction, the best shape for teeth in wheels, &c. By John Imison.
Imison, John, -1788.Date: [1787]- Pictures
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Boer War: wounded soldiers being lifted off a hospital ship and carried away on stretchers. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. de Haenen after J. Bruton.
Bruton, J. E., active 1900.Date: 1900Reference: 23551i- Pictures
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The ship Agamemnon at anchor off Greenwich before setting off to lay the telegraph cable across the Atlantic from Ireland to Canada. Wood engraving by F.J. Smyth, 1857, after E. Weedon.
Weedon, Edwin, 1819-1873.Date: [1857]Reference: 37526i- Archives and manuscripts
Fireworks, France, 18th century
Date: 1766Reference: MS.9282- Books
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The modern husbandman: Or, The practice of farming: as it is now carried on by the most accurate farmers in several counties of England. For the month of June. Containing the following particulars, viz. I. A description of, and the uses of the excellent three-wheel and pulley drill ploughs, several sorts of horse-breaks, and hand instruments, as they are now employed by common farmers, for improving their crops of wheat, barley, pease, beans, rapes, weld, coriander, carraway, canary, seeds of trees, turneps, hops, and other vegetables, in the cheapest and most profitable manner. ... IV. Of proper plowings, necessary to be done in this month, in high or low, wet or dry lands. V. A large account of making natural hay, and its preservation from firing, and other damage. VI. Of sheering sheep. The nature and value of the several sorts of wooll of Great Britain; and how it is run to France. ... X. The improvement of corn, hops, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, and bees. XI. Eighteen ways of keeping off and destroying rats and mice; and the case of an horse, who was near being killed by rats poisoned with mercury: with many other curious cases, and serviceable matters. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,XLIII. [1743]- Digital Images
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Qigong exercise for pain in the back, shoulders and arms
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The builder's complete assistant; or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial, and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. VII. Mechanick powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Porticos, &c. Proportioned by Modules and Minutes, according to Andrea Palladio; and by Equal Parts. Likewise Great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, obelisks, Vases, Pedestals for Bustos, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axes in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. Wherein the Properties, and Pressure of the Air on Water, &c. are explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large Quarto Copper-Plates. By Batty Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1775?]- Books
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The builders compleat assistant, or a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. Vii. Mechanick Powers. Viii. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. Proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by Equal Parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. Wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates. By B. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1738]- Books
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The Builders compleat assistant, or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. VII. Mechanick Powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by equal parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large Quarto Copper-Plates. By B. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1750]- Film
Compilation of ophthalmological films.
Date: 1964-66