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A mine: cross-sections of a pulley and tunnels in the mine. Etching by W. Lowry.
Date: 2 January 1802Reference: 29264i- Pictures
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A man is using a heavy weight on a pulley system to stamp out buttons. Wood engraving.
Reference: 30669i- Books
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The pulley method of advancing the rectus : with indications for its employment / by A.E. Prince.
Prince, A. E. (Arthur E.)Date: [1888]- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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Sir Gerald Graham directing the hoisting of patients on board a hospital ship, Sudan. Wood engraving by J.N., 1885.
Reference: 20910i- 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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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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Boer War: a busy field hospital storeroom with baskets of Red Cross medical supplies. Charcoal drawing by P. Spence.
Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton), 1868-1933.Reference: 23291i- 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- 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- 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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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
A biography of Paul Berg : the recombinant DNA controversy revisited / Errol C Friedberg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA ; with a foreword by Sydney Brenner.
Friedberg, Errol C.Date: [2014]- Digital Images
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Qigong exercise for pain in the back, shoulders and arms
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The three different stages of the torture of John Coustos. Etching with engraving by S.J. Neele, 1810.
Date: 2 April 1810Reference: 43401i