LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
- 1. African Hut[12]
- 2. Robinson Crusoe (from a design by Stothard)[20]
- 3. Dying lion[25]
- 4. Penn's treaty with the Indians[33]
- 5. Pine-marten[37]
- 6. Treasure-finding[45]
- 7. Brindley[63]
- 8. The hock-cart[66]
- 9. Adam Smith[71]
- 10. "Under his own vine"[100]
- 11. Centre of gravity[113]
- 12. A tool made a machine[115]
- 13. Spinning a rope[118]
- 14. Analysis of a cable[119]
- 15. Mill at Guy's Cliff[122]
- 16. Oriental plough[126]
- 17. Clod-crusher[132]
- 18. Scarifier[133]
- 19. Horse-hoe[134]
- 20. Moveable steam-engine and thrashing-machine[135]
- 21. Thrashing-machine with horse-power[136]
- 22. Draining-tile machine[137]
- 23. The first iron bridge, Colebrook Dale[147]
- 24. Rolling bar-iron[149]
- 25. File-cutters[152]
- 26. Cupids forging arrows (from Albani)[156]
- 27. Telford[162]
- 28. Modern Syrian cart[165]
- 29. Brindley's aqueduct over the Irwell[168]
- 30. Railway locomotive[171]
- 31. Reindeer[173]
- 32. Beaver[174]
- 33. Pyramid and sphinx[176]
- 34. Boulton[179]
- 35. Carpenters and their tools (from an old German woodcut)[181]
- 36. Egyptian labour in the brick-field[183]
- 37. Scotch carpet-loom[188]
- 38. Sheet-glass making[192]
- 39. Potter's wheel of modern Egypt[195]
- 40. Moulds for porcelain, and casts[196]
- 41. Wedgwood[197]
- 42. Ancient shadoof[202]
- 43. Conduit in Westcheap[206]
- 44. Old water-carrier of London[208]
- 45. Plug in a frost[209]
- 46. London street-lights, 1760[211]
- 47. Cotton; showing a pod bursting[214]
- 48. Distaff[216]
- 49. A Hindoo woman spinning cotton[217]
- 50. Sir Richard Arkwright[219]
- 51. Arkwright's original spinning-machine[220]
- 52. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning-mule[222]
- 53. Hindoo weaver at work in a field[228]
- 54. Dr. Cartwright, inventor of the power-loom[229]
- 55. Flemish weaver (from a print of 1568)[230]
- 56. Mechanism of power-loom[242]
- 57. Jacquard cards[243]
- 58. Hanks of silk[247]
- 59. Egyptian winding-reel[247]
- 60. Silk-winding machine[248]
- 61. Indigo-harvest In the West Indies[252]
- 62. Gloves for the great[260]
- 63. Cobbler's stall, about 1760[261]
- 64. Men'seg, or Egyptian embroidery frame[263]
- 65. Bobbin-net meshes[264]
- 66. Essential parts of the bobbin-net machine[265]
- 67. Stamping the eye of a needle[269]
- 68. Stamping, pressing, and punching buttons.—Elliott's factory[271]
- 69. Envelope-making machine[275]
- 70. Compositor at work[277]
- 71. Machine for fixing tags to laces[278]
- 72. Inclined plane for separating shot[279]
- 73. Candle-dipping machine[281]
- 74. Tiring a wheel[281]
- 75. Harrison[298]
- 76. Greenwich Observatory[299]
- 77. Linnæus in his Lapland dress[302]
- 78. Elæis Guineensis, and Cocoa butyracea, yielding palm-oil[306]
- 79. Franklin medal[310]
- 80. Newton[313]
- 81. Ambrose Paré[314]
- 82. Sir Walter Scott (from Sir F. Chantrey's bust)[319]
- 83. Statue of Bacon[322]
- 84. Old hand-gunner[330]
- 85. Carrier-pigeon[332]
- 86. Cowper's printing-machine[335]
- 87. The 'Times' printing-machine[338]
- 88. Papyrus[343]
- 89. Medal to Locke[380]
- 90. Vision of Henry I[381]
- 91. Irish mud cabin[393]
- 92. "Feed the hungry" (from Flaxman)[401]
- 93. Costermonger[407]
- 94. "Pots to mend"[411]
- 95. Statue of Watt[424]
The Present Edition is Illustrated with Twenty-four additional Cuts, on separate pages, of Manufacturing Processes, &c., which are to be placed as follows:—
- Bursting of Dykes. The forces of Nature overcoming the industry of Man[99]
- Making ropes by machinery[119]
- Steam-boiler making[145]
- Shear and tilt-hammers—Steel Manufacture[151]
- Ancient lead-mine in Derbyshire[154]
- Coal-railway[157]
- Locomotive-engine factory[170]
- Stone quarry, Portland[177]
- Timber rafts of the Tyrol[178]
- Glass-cutting[191]
- Plate-glass factory[192]
- The English potter[194]
- Mill-room of a pottery[196]
- Cotton mule-spinning[222]
- Power-looms[229]
- Jacquard power-looms[241]
- Interior of Marshall's flax-mill, Leeds[250]
- Calico-printing by cylinder[252]
- Bleaching-ground at Glasgow[254]
- Electro-gilding[311]
- Pianoforte manufactory[320]
- Bas-relief on Gutenberg's monument[323]
- Paper-making by hand[341]
- Processes of bookbinding[342]