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1.
The march of intellect : mechanical

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
1829.
Call Number:
829.00.00.122+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire on modern technology, including depictions of steam used for war, amputations, underground travel, and beauty treatments. Also depicted is air travel by way of birds harnessed together, and the pseudoscience of phrenology used to assess a child...
Description:
Title etched above images, at top of plate.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Steam, Machinery, Cannons, Warships, Birds, Phrenology, Children, Travel, and Amputees
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The march of intellect : mechanical

2.
Body fanner, nut-cracker & wine helper, for the heats of summer [graphic].

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jan. 1, 1830.
Call Number:
830.01.01.08+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A stout man reclines on a chaise-longue, a bolster pillow supporting his knees as a small cup meets his lips. Above this, a small tube descends from a bowl labeled 'Barcelonie'. On the wall are two wheels and the mechanism that pours and decants the w...
Alternative Title:
Body fanner, nut-cracker and wine helper, for the heats of summer
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Subject (Topic):
Automation, Couches, Eating & drinking, Machinery, Nuts, and Wine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Body fanner, nut-cracker & wine helper, for the heats of summer [graphic].

3.
Riding apparatus for timid horsemen [graphic].

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jan. 1, 1830.
Call Number:
830.01.01.09+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An older gentleman is on horseback strapped into a contraption that limits the horses movement (as such, it won't move above a trot pace), limits any jolting movements and also provides shade and cover through the attachment of an umbrella. In the lef...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horses, Umbrellas, Machinery, Dandies, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Riding apparatus for timid horsemen [graphic].

4.
The march of intellect [graphic]

Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1829?]
Call Number:
829.00.00.15+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a gian...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
University College, London.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Higher, Avarice, Balloons (Aircraft), Clergy, Demons, Justice, Lawyers, Machinery, Physicians, Rulers, and Steam
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The march of intellect [graphic]

5.
The Mint [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1809]
Call Number:
Quarto 646 808 M58 v.2
Collection Title:
V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior view of the mint in the Tower of London, shortly before it was removed to Tower Hill; men labouring with machinery of mint."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Feby. 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Mint. and Tower of London (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Mints, Interiors, Machinery, Money, and Laborers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Mint [graphic]

6.
Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli ... : nellequali si contengono

Creator:
Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Published / Created:
1588.
Call Number:
Eliz +47
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Diverse et artificiose machine. French & Italian
Description:
BEIN Ujb22 +588r Copy 2: Bookplate: The James Walker Horological Library of Seth Thomas Clock Company, 1932. Stamp: Library of Amer. Clock & Watch Museum.
Publisher:
In casa del'autore, co[n] priuilegio del Re
Subject (Topic):
Machinery, Mechanical engineering, and Hydraulics
Found in:
Elizabethan Club > Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli ... : nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione

7.
Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli ... : nellequali si contengono

Creator:
Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Published / Created:
1588.
Call Number:
Eliz +47
Image Count:
3
Alternative Title:
Diverse et artificiose machine. French & Italian
Description:
BEIN Ujb22 +588r Copy 2: Bookplate: The James Walker Horological Library of Seth Thomas Clock Company, 1932. Stamp: Library of Amer. Clock & Watch Museum.
Publisher:
In casa del'autore, co[n] priuilegio del Re
Subject (Topic):
Machinery, Mechanical engineering, and Hydraulics
Found in:
Elizabethan Club > Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli ... : nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione

9.
Die Atmung des Menschen [graphic]

Creator:
Helbig, G., artist
Published / Created:
[1926]
Call Number:
Poster0466
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
All the functions that encompass a human's breathing depicted as a well-run factory
Alternative Title:
Human breath
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Models, Brain, Electromechanical analogies, Respiration, Factories, Machinery, Control rooms, Body parts, and Diagrams
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Die Atmung des Menschen [graphic]

10.
A perspective view and section of an engine propos'd to be built by subscription, which will shave

Creator:
Booth, Thomas, active 1743-1746, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 November 1749]
Call Number:
749.11.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This engraving represents a circular building, with conical roof of tiles, shown in two sections, and partly in perspective. Within the building is a large wheel turned by a horse and giving motion to a considerable number of spindles, to which are a...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament Novr. [the] 2, 1749, and sold by J. Dubois at [the] Golden Head [the] corner of Burleigh Street near Exeter Chanc[...]
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Shaving, Razor blades, Machinery, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective view and section of an engine propos'd to be built by subscription, which will shave sixty men in a minute, also oyl comb and powder their wigs [graphic]

11.
Apparatus to undress & cover up when sleepy [graphic].

Published / Created:
Jan. 1, 1830.
Call Number:
830.01.01.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A sleeping man on his back in a bed, is attached to a machine that is undressing him, pulling his pants off and his arms out of his sleeves, as other parts of the machine prepare to pull his nightcap and sleeping shirt over his head
Alternative Title:
Apparatus to undress and cover up when sleepy
Description:
Ttitle etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Subject (Topic):
Automation, Beds, Machinery, Sleepwear, and Undressing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Apparatus to undress & cover up when sleepy [graphic].

12.
Avoid fatigue. Eat a lunch that packs a punch. [graphic]

Published / Created:
1945.
Call Number:
Poster0025
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title, publisher, and date from item.
Publisher:
U. S. Department of Agriculture -- War Food Administration and U. S. Government Printing Office
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Prevention, Industrial safety, World War, 1939-1945, Nutrition, Sleeping, Machinery, and Laborers
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Avoid fatigue. Eat a lunch that packs a punch. [graphic]

13.
By royal authority A new way of mounting your horse in spite of the gout!!. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[not after 1830]
Call Number:
Print10158
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
New way of mounting your horse in spite of the gout!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sidebotham 96 Strand
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England)
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Horsemanship, Obesity, Kings, Horses, Servants, Machinery, Ethnic stereotypes, and Pagodas
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > By royal authority A new way of mounting your horse in spite of the gout!!. [graphic]

14.
Der Mensch als Industriepalast [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1931]
Call Number:
Poster0465
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A human's anatomical functions depicted as a well-run factory
Alternative Title:
Man as industrial palace
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Models, Brain, Electromechanical analogies, Factories, Machinery, Control rooms, Body parts, and Diagrams
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Der Mensch als Industriepalast [graphic].

15.
Der Mensch als Industriepalast [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1931]
Call Number:
Poster0464
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A human's anatomical functions depicted as a well-run factory
Alternative Title:
Man as industrial palace
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Models, Brain, Electromechanical analogies, Factories, Machinery, Control rooms, Body parts, and Diagrams
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Der Mensch als Industriepalast [graphic].

16.
[Socialistic development, improvement of women's labor qualifications, ... removes the causes of

Published / Created:
[1928]
Call Number:
Poster0196
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Социалистическое строительство, повышение квалификации женского труда, ... устранят причины проституции
Description:
Title and date from item.
Publisher:
Narkomzdrav, RSFSR
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Prevention, Prostitution, Socialism, Women's rights, Factories, Nursery schools, Classrooms, Beer halls, and Machinery
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Socialistic development, improvement of women's labor qualifications, ... removes the causes of prostitution] [graphic]., Социалистическое строительство, повышение квалификации женского труда, ... устранят причины проституции

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