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Farming: a threshing machine designed by Richard Hornsby mounted on a cart: cutaway side elevation, and details. Wood engraving after R. Hornsby, 1862.
Hornsby, Richard, 1790-1864.Date: 1862Reference: 493850i- Pictures
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Engineering: rolling mill used to produce gun barrels, with different stages in producing the shape shown below. Engraving c.1861.
Reference: 46034i- Pictures
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Dyeing: dyers' and fullers' mills for extracting plant dyes. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
Pass, John, active 1797-1815.Reference: 45419i- Pictures
Farming: a milling machine (above), men threshing corn (below) Engraving.
Reference: 493758i- Pictures
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A workshop for the production of cardboard and papier-mache: workmen variously squeezing sheets in a press, driving a horse which powers the mill, and filling a mould (top), tools (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by B. L. Prevost.
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A description of a machine or invention to work mills, by the power of a fire-engine, but particularly useful and profitable in grinding sugar canes, ... To which is annexed a plan of a fire engine, the said machine, and a sugar mill and a boiling house. With an appendix. ... By the King's patent to John Stewart.
Stewart, John, of London.Date: 1767]- Pictures
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Farming: a milling machine for corn, three-quarter view. Engraving by B. Cole, early eighteenth century, after R. Blackwell.
Blackwell, R.Reference: 493860i- Pictures
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Farming: a milling machine for corn, driven by a water-wheel, three-quarter view. Engraving by Seal, c.1750.
Date: 1750Reference: 493861i- Pictures
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Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843.Date: [Jan?] 1805Reference: 31010i- Pictures
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Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
Pass, John, active 1797-1815.Date: 1824Reference: 44043i- Pictures
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Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Engraving, 1861.
Date: 1861Reference: 46068i- Pictures
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Machinery: a steam-driven water mill. Coloured drawing, 1854.
Date: 1854Reference: 46103i- Books
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A plan and descripti[on] of Mr. John Stewart'[s] fire engine mill, being a machine to apply the power of fire engines to all kinds of mills that require much force, but is most profitable to grind sugar canes; as one of them, with a Cylinder of Thirty Inches Diameter, is proved will do as much as four Cattle Mills, that employ from 160 to 200 Steers; and the Trash of the Canes, that works the Fire Engine, boils the great Coppers at the same Time, without any additional Expence, or Consumption of Fuel. And A Plan and Description of the Application of a Fire Engine to work Saws, that will be next most profitable to saw Timber, as the Slabs, or Branches of the Trees sawed, will supply Fuel without Expence, particularly in North America, as they may be set in the most convenient Situation for Timber and Navigation, &c. Also A Plan and Description of a Reservoir, to be made of Earth, that will be as staunch as Cisterns made of Stone and Lime, and grouted, and a Method of collecting Rain Water to supply them, as is practised in the East-Indies, and other Countries subject to long Drought. Likewise, a Plan and Description of a Sliding Rod, that, by the Fire Engine, which grinds the Canes, will work a Pump at a Distance of 400 Yards or upwards, from the Engine, and raise Water, that may be conveyed in Wooden Gutters, set on Posts or Phlars of Stone, to any higher Ground, that may be convenient to let into Cane Pieces to water Canes. Also a Description of Marles, such as used in most Parts in the North of England, to manure Land which the Patentee hath seen of the same Kinds in Parts in Jamaica, but it is not known to be Marle; or the Value of it, or the Uses and Benefits to be had by it. A further Description of the said Machines &c. is given in the Preface. With an Account of the Opposition and Distress the Patentee met in Jamaica, by Means of a Millwright, who imposed on the greater Part of the principle Gentlemen of the Island, by shewing them a Draught of a Counterfeit of the Patentee's Invention, that had two Wheels less and comparing it with a Draught of the Patentee's that was published, to believe it to be more useful, altho' it will herein appear, that it was an imaginary Invention, and that the said, Millwright used every diabolical Means, he could contrive, to depreciate and hinder the Patentee's Invention from coming into Practice.
Stewart, John, of London.Date: 1776- Pictures
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Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Engraving by J. S. Virtue, 1862.
Date: 1862Reference: 45430i- Pictures
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Three men dance in the street as a crowd gathers on Blackfriars Bridge, London, to celebrate the destruction by fire of Albion Mills. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Date: April 1st 1791Reference: 35962i- Books
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Descriptions of some of the utensils in husbandry, rolling carriages, cart rollers, and divided rollers for land or gardens, mills, weighing engines, &c. &c. made and sold by James Sharp, No 15, Leadenhall-Street, London; Which may be seen at his Manufactory, No 133, Tooley-Street, Southwark.
Sharp, James, -1783.Date: [1780?]- Books
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A comparison of the newly invented corn-mill, with those worked by wind and water, as likewise those worked by Newcomen & Cawley's leaver steam engine: with a short historical account of the invention of fire machinery: and a critical review, or an account of some parts of the leaver engine, which the Imperial Academy of Sciences, at Petersbourg, has crowned for the theory of engines which receive their motion from the force of steam: with the manner to find out an universal measure in solids, as in fluids, and an answer to an ironical conclusion on the English for pirating other peoples' inventions. By Mr. Blakey.
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: M DCC LXXXIX. [1789]- Pictures
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Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1814Reference: 45423i- Pictures
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Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1814, after J. Farey.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1814Reference: 45429i- Pictures
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Machinery: plan and elevation of the Smeaton oil mill. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819, after J. Farey.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1819Reference: 45424i- Books
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Flax mills : their machinery, accidents occurring therein, with suggestions for their prevention / by Thomas H. Babington.
Babington, Thomas H.Date: 1866- Pictures
Heavy erecting shop for rolling mill engineering, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield: men are shown operating heavy machinery. Photograph, 1957.
Date: 1957Reference: 582449i- Pictures
Heavy erecting work for rolling mill engraving, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield: men are shown operating heavy machinery. Photograph, 1957.
Date: 1957Reference: 582452i- Pictures
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Five labelled sections through parts of a porter brewery. Engraving by W. Lowry, c. 1816, after J. Farey.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1816Reference: 25777i- Archives and manuscripts
Phoenix Mills Inventory
Date: 1901- [1904]Reference: WF/CW/11/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd