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A bull fight with mounted riders and a grotesque machine on wheels emitting smoke in the background. Red chalk drawing after Antonio Tempesta.
Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630.Reference: 33696i- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: wooden baths on wheels filled with used medicinal mud bath, being emptied by workmen. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36822i- Books
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Observations on the effects which carriage wheels, with rims of different shapes, have on the roads; respectfully offered to the consideration of the legislature. By Alexander Cumming, F. R. S. Ed. author of the elements of clock and watch-work.
Cumming, Alexander, 1733-1814.Date: 1797- Pictures
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A large cannon pushed forwards by Furies crushes American soldiers under its wheels; representing the American Civil War. Wood engraving after J. Tenniel, 1864.
Tenniel, John, 1820-1914.Date: 1864Reference: 36184i- Pictures
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A man wearing a costume and a mask and holding a sail is riding in a boat with wheels and chains attached to it. Lithograph.
Reference: 36676i- Pictures
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Merlin's mechanical chair for the elderly or infirm: the design incorporates hand-cranks, wheels, gears and an adjustable back and footrest. Coloured etching with aquatint, 1811.
Date: [1811]Reference: 568341i- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: wooden baths on wheels filled with used medicinal mud bath, about to be taken away by workmen. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36820i- Pictures
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St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: boy patients wrapped in blankets, strapped into portable wooden beds on wheels, by nurses. Photograph, c. 1935.
Date: [1935-1937]Reference: 29229i- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: wooden baths on wheels which are filled with turf being mixed with boiling water to make medicinal mud baths. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36817i- Pictures
Votive picture: a carriage comes apart, the horse runs away with the front wheels, the people thrown from the carriage pray to the Virgin and Child. Oil painting.
Reference: 47493i- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: a wooden bath on wheels filled with a medicinal mud bath, waiting at the back entrance of a cabin. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36818i- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: workmen standing by wooden baths on wheels which are to be filled with turf to make medicinal mud baths. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36796i- Pictures
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Hydraulics: a water-wheel with a pressure relieving device, side elevation. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after J. Pinchback.
Pinchback, J.Reference: 45320i- Pictures
The arrival of a plague patient at Grant Road Hospital on an ambulance carriage with large wheels, during the epidemic in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37239iPart of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.- Pictures
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A railway employee (?) wheels away the dismembered body of a man killed in a railway accident; he converses with a physician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17096i- Books
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Observations on the effects which carriage wheels, with rims of different shapes, have on the roads; Respectfully submitted to the approbation of the board of agriculture, and to the consideration of the legislature. By Alexander Cumming, Esq. F.R.S. Edin.
Cumming, Alexander, 1733-1814.Date: 1799- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: wooden baths on wheels which are filled with turf ready to be transported to the bath house for medicinal mud baths. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36813i- Books
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Remarks on the comparative advantages of wheel carriages, of different structure and draught. Illustrated with plates. By Robert Anstice.
Anstice, Robert.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: wooden baths which are filled with turf for medicinal mud baths being dragged on wheels across a courtyard to the bath house. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36814i- Pictures
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Hydraulics: a water-wheel with a pressure relieving device, end elevation and plan. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after J. Pinchback.
Pinchback, J.Reference: 45321i- Pictures
A man with plague found by the Plague Committee is taken to hospital on a stretcher with wheels, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37779iPart of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.- Pictures
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An old man in a top hat sitting in a wooden cart with wheels that resembles a coffin, pointing at a passage in the book he is reading. Etching by J.T. Smith.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Reference: 44046i- Pictures
Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: first stage in the preparation of medicinal mud baths, where turf is cut and taken away in wooden baths with wheels which run along rails. Photograph by Miss Georgievsky, 1935.
Georgievsky.Date: 1935Reference: 36790i- Books
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Hoops into spinning-wheels. A tragi-comedy. Nulla fere causa est in qua non soemina litem moverit. Juv. The slender Thread Minerva spun, The Garland from Arackne won. Ovid. Written by a Gentleman in Gloucestershire.
Blanch, John, 1649 or 1650-Date: 1725- Books
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Reasons against a bill for permitting only carriages with broad wheels, and those drawn by two horses, to pass on turnpike roads, with regard to the countries within twenty-five or thirty miles of London.
Date: 1755?]