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Creator:
Published / Created:
[between 1780 and 1788?]
Call Number:
File 69 780 P654+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A man sits on the right of a tracing machine, his head caught in a vice; beside him sits an old woman. On the opposite end, a man in gown works the mechanism
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Prinion
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Inventions, Portrait prints, and Inventors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Limomachia. : By His Majesty's royal letters patent, the new-invented machine for taking likenesses, by which the usual objections to the art, viz. time, trouble, and expence, are entirely removed, by Raphael Pinion, portrait-grinder, at his manufactory, in Liecester square, opposite the aequestrian statue of the King
Published / Created:
[1 October 1811]
Call Number:
Print00997
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
No.34 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts & c. Pub. Octr. 1, 1811, at 101 Strand London
Subject (Name):
Merlin, John Joseph, 1735-1803.
Subject (Topic):
Wheelchairs and Inventions
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Merlin's mechanical chair [graphic].
Published / Created:
[approximately 1770]
Call Number:
770.00.00.23
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical depiction of a machine which shaves six people in a line using a brush and razor which slide along a bar worked by a cogwheel turned by a man. In the lower left, a barber tends to a wig with curling tongs; a pile of hats along the lower d...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gearing, Hair preparations, Hairdressing, Inventions, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Representation of the new shaving machine, whereby a number of persons may be done at the same time with expedition, ease and safety manufactured and sold by D. Merry and Son, Birmingham. [graphic]
Creator:
Published / Created:
1828-30.
Call Number:
File 15 El51 830++
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN 2018 238: Paperbound. Stamp: Bibl. Gvst C. Galletti Flor.
Publisher:
Coi tipi di Giovanni Pirotta
Subject (Topic):
Art, History, Printing, Science, Literature, History and criticism, and Inventions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ricerche storico-critico-scientifiche sulle origini : scoperte, invenzioni e perfezionamenti fatti nelle lettere, nelle arti e nelle scienze
Published / Created:
[1846?]
Call Number:
846.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
William Spooner, 377, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Inventions, Nails & spikes, Umbrellas, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The new patent anti-squeeze body machine whereby a person may pass through the densest crowd without being inconvenienced by the pressure. [graphic]
