Machinery used in the making of candles. Engraving by F. Appel.

Machinery used in the comparative testing of gold. Engraving by Mutlow.

Machinery used in the making of gold thread. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.

Machinery and implements used in the manufacture of iron netting. Etching by Defehrt.

Coinage: machinery used in the Royal Mint. Engraving.

Hands holding working implements; representing successful management of AIDS in the workplace in South Africa. Lithograph, ca. 1996 (?).

Eyes watching out for carcinogenic materials in the workplace. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Kankerbestrijding/KWF, ca. 2001.

Machinery used in the cooling and processing of copper. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.

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Titans in the landscape

The smile catchers

From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

How to play in secret

Caught in the machinery : workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth-century Britain / Jamie L. Bronstein.

The machine and the worker / by A. Barratt Brown.

Successful living in this machine age / by Edward A. Filene ; in collaboration with Charles W. Wood.

Thoughts on the use of machines, in the cotton manufacture. Addressed to the working people in that manufacture, and to the poor in general. By a friend of the poor.

The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters / by an Englishman ; also, A voice from the factories, a poem, in serious verse.

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Titans in the landscape

The smile catchers

From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

How to play in secret

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Catalogue

Caught in the machinery : workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth-century Britain / Jamie L. Bronstein.

The machine and the worker / by A. Barratt Brown.

Successful living in this machine age / by Edward A. Filene ; in collaboration with Charles W. Wood.

Thoughts on the use of machines, in the cotton manufacture. Addressed to the working people in that manufacture, and to the poor in general. By a friend of the poor.

The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters / by an Englishman ; also, A voice from the factories, a poem, in serious verse.

Wellcome uses cookies.

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Stories

Titans in the landscape

The smile catchers

From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

How to play in secret

Images

Catalogue

Caught in the machinery : workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth-century Britain / Jamie L. Bronstein.

The machine and the worker / by A. Barratt Brown.

Successful living in this machine age / by Edward A. Filene ; in collaboration with Charles W. Wood.

Thoughts on the use of machines, in the cotton manufacture. Addressed to the working people in that manufacture, and to the poor in general. By a friend of the poor.

The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters / by an Englishman ; also, A voice from the factories, a poem, in serious verse.