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- 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]
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
INTRODUCTION.
It has been wisely said by a French writer who has scattered abroad sound and foolish opinions with a pretty equal hand, that "it requires a great deal of philosophy to observe once what is seen every day."[1] To no branch of human knowledge can this remark be more fitly applied than to that which relates to the commonest things of the world,—namely, the Wants of Man and the Means of satisfying them.