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Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
Date: 1834Reference: 45500i- Books
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Specification of John Cash & Joseph Cash, junior : winding surgical bandages.
Cash, John.Date: 1867- Books
Pharmacopoeia Bartleiana, or, Bartlet's gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses / in two books, containing, I. the surgical; II. the medical part of practical farriery : also, directions for the proper treatment of post chaise and other horses after violent exercise ... To which are now added, Mr. Clover's elegant and useful machine for securing the broken legs of horses without slinging; also, Mr. Goodall's pneumatic engine, for fumigating horses with broken wind, or bad coughs.
Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772.Date: 1773- Books
An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion / [John Smeaton].
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: [1760]- Books
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An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion. By J. Smeaton, F.R.S.
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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Experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of wind and water to turn mills and other machines depending on a circular motion. And an experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest. Also new fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies. With five plates of machines. By the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: 1796- Books
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Experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of wind and water to turn mills and other machines depending on a circular motion. And an experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest. Also new fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies. With five plates of machines. By the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: 1794- Books
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A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm. For which, His Majesty has granted letters patent, for the sole benefit of the author, for the space of fourteen years. By Jonathan Hulls.
Hulls, Jonathan, 1699-Date: 1737- Pictures
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A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 35499i- Books
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A short historical account of the invention, theory, and practice, of fire-machinery; or introduction to the art of making machines, vulgarly called steam-engines. In order to extract Water from Mines, convey it to Towns, and Jets D'Eaux in Gardens. To procure Water-Falls for Fulling, Hammering, Stamping, Rolling, and Corn, Mills, &c. To give Motion to all sorts of Machinery worked by Men or Horses, and bring in and out of Port Vessels in Calms, and against the Wind in moderate Weather. With Two Letters, by the Author, which give an Account how Nature and bad Engineering tend to the Destruction of the Port of Amsterdam; and how the extracting the stagnated and stinking Waters, and bringing fresh to circulate in the Canals of that City, was opposed. By Mr. Blakey.
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: Printed in the Year 1793- Archives and manuscripts
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Casey, M G
Date: Jan-Mar 1945Reference: HALDANE/5/1/3/13Part of: Haldane Papers- Pictures
Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.Date: Sept. 1762Reference: 38090i- Books
Expertise : practical knowledge and the early modern state / edited by Eric H. Ash.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist / Christof Koch.
Koch, Christof, 1956-Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
Atlas of science : visualizing what we know / Katy Börner.
Börner, Katy.Date: [2010], ©2010- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd