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The fore wheels of a coach: two figures. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey Jnr.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1818Reference: 36842i- Pictures
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Men are working at benches with a box with wheels on a chain and a large wheel. Engraving.
Reference: 30966i- Books
The wheels of commerce / Fernand Braudel ; translation from the French by Siân Reynolds.
Braudel, Fernand.Date: 1982- Archives and manuscripts
Biological engines (`Spring pushes the wheels round), pp 5-12 only of longer piece
Date: (post-1939)Reference: SA/PHC/D.2/11/3Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)- Books
The wheels of commerce / Fernand Braudel ; translation from the French by Siân Reynolds.
Braudel, Fernand.Date: 1983- Pictures
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A floating Chinese temple, including an altar, musicians and prayer wheels. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 567870i- Pictures
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A wagoner making wheels, axles and other parts for carriages and wagons. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34939i- Pictures
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Textiles: two spinning wheels, for wool (top) and silk (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 43883i- Pictures
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Martyrdom of four male saints, their bodies bound to spiked wheels. Woodcut by Cr.P. (?).
Reference: 11028iPart of: Cruciatus sanctorum martyrum- Pictures
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A vehicle with two large and two small wheels and a man sitting between the two larger ones; there are two horses below him and people are travelling in a box situated between the two smaller wheels. Wood engraving.
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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Ephemera
Interior of Charles Darwin's study, showing mantelpiece, corner and Darwin's chair on wheels / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.
Date: 2009- Pictures
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Engineering: driving wheels of a railway locomotive, and section of piston. Coloured lithograph, 1905, by Stanislas petit.
Date: 1905Reference: 46089i- Pictures
Studies of locomotives with details of wheels, axles and other working parts. Drawing by R. Hampshire, 1960.
Hampshire, Ronald, active approximately 1960-1961.Date: 25.11.60. [25 November 1960]Reference: 2977803iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Venus on wheels : two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America / Gelya Frank.
Frank, Gelya, 1948-Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
The roof of Africa on wheels / narrated by Derek Groves, commentary by Jon Amos. Forweword by Chris Bonington.
Groves, DerekDate: 1999- Pictures
A monstrous yellow creature with one eye, moving on wheels and emitting rays. Drawing by P. Davidson, 1967.
Davidson, Paul, active approximately 1967.Date: 11.9.67 [11 September 1967]Reference: 2922537iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The queen's famous progress, or; Her Majesty's royal journey to the Bath, and happy return. With the most remarkable particulars of her royal entertainment at Oxford, and Glorious and Triumphant Reception at the Bath, and all other places going and coming thence; Her liberal Bounty to the Poor, and touching many of the Evil: As also how 200 Virgins cloathed in white met the Queen, with Bows and Arrows by their Sides; with the Number of Shepherds that met her Majesty in her return, with their Croks and Tarboxes, Singing and Playing on Pipes of Reeds &c. As also a great Number of Spinners with their Country Wheels, Dancing and Singing by Her Majesty's Coach; and how the Queen was graciously pleas'd to Reward them with her Charitable Bounty. To which is added, Several Ingenious Poems and Verses, spoken to Her Majesty at Oxford, &c. by Persons of great Quality; with Her Majesty's Gracious Speech to the University.
Date: 1702- Pictures
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The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: wheels displayed in the American Car and Foundry Company exhibit. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 572687iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.- Books
Meals for the elderly : a report on meals on wheels and luncheon clubs in two North London suburbs.
Stanton, B. R.Date: 1971- Books
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Some observations on the use of broad wheels; with a proposal for a more general amendment of the roads.
A. B.Date: Printed in the Year 1765- Pictures
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A man sitting inside a large wooden frame holding on to straps as the wheels turn. Engraving by J. Walker.
Date: Jany.1.1798Reference: 34442i- Pictures
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A vehicle with wooden wheels pulled by two oxen in India. Etching by T. Wageman after M.-R. de Montalembert.
Montalembert, Marc-René, marquis de, 1777-1831.Date: June 1st 1812Reference: 36812i- Pictures
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Engineering: a lathe with two wheels (front elevation and side elevation). Lithograph by Martin and Hood, 1852, after C.J. Light.
Light, Charles Julian, approximately 1833-1911.Date: February 28th 1852Reference: 46118i- Pictures
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A bicycle with two green condoms instead of wheels; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.
Bundeszentrale für Gesundheitliche Aufklärung (Germany)Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 665552i