LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Reading edition
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1. African Hut12
2. Robinson Crusoe (from a design by Stothard)20
3. Dying lion25
4. Penn's treaty with the Indians33
5. Pine-marten37
6. Treasure-finding45
7. Brindley63
8. The hock-cart66
9. Adam Smith71
10. "Under his own vine"100
11. Centre of gravity113
12. A tool made a machine115
13. Spinning a rope118
14. Analysis of a cable119
15. Mill at Guy's Cliff122
16. Oriental plough126
17. Clod-crusher132
18. Scarifier133
19. Horse-hoe134
20. Moveable steam-engine and thrashing-machine135
21. Thrashing-machine with horse-power136
22. Draining-tile machine137
23. The first iron bridge, Colebrook Dale147
24. Rolling bar-iron149
25. File-cutters152
26. Cupids forging arrows (from Albani)156
27. Telford162
28. Modern Syrian cart165
29. Brindley's aqueduct over the Irwell168
30. Railway locomotive171
31. Reindeer173
32. Beaver174
33. Pyramid and sphinx176
34. Boulton179
35. Carpenters and their tools (from an old German woodcut)181
36. Egyptian labour in the brick-field183
37. Scotch carpet-loom188
38. Sheet-glass making192
39. Potter's wheel of modern Egypt195
40. Moulds for porcelain, and casts196
41. Wedgwood197
42. Ancient shadoof202
43. Conduit in Westcheap206
44. Old water-carrier of London208
45. Plug in a frost209
46. London street-lights, 1760211
47. Cotton; showing a pod bursting214
48. Distaff216
49. A Hindoo woman spinning cotton217
50. Sir Richard Arkwright219
51. Arkwright's original spinning-machine220
52. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning-mule222
53. Hindoo weaver at work in a field228
54. Dr. Cartwright, inventor of the power-loom229
55. Flemish weaver (from a print of 1568)230
56. Mechanism of power-loom242
57. Jacquard cards243
58. Hanks of silk247
59. Egyptian winding-reel247
60. Silk-winding machine248
61. Indigo-harvest In the West Indies252
62. Gloves for the great260
63. Cobbler's stall, about 1760261
64. Men'seg, or Egyptian embroidery frame263
65. Bobbin-net meshes264
66. Essential parts of the bobbin-net machine265
67. Stamping the eye of a needle269
68. Stamping, pressing, and punching buttons.—Elliott's factory271
69. Envelope-making machine275
70. Compositor at work277
71. Machine for fixing tags to laces278
72. Inclined plane for separating shot279
73. Candle-dipping machine281
74. Tiring a wheel281
75. Harrison298
76. Greenwich Observatory299
77. Linnæus in his Lapland dress302
78. Elæis Guineensis, and Cocoa butyracea, yielding palm-oil306
79. Franklin medal310
80. Newton313
81. Ambrose Paré314
82. Sir Walter Scott (from Sir F. Chantrey's bust)319
83. Statue of Bacon322
84. Old hand-gunner330
85. Carrier-pigeon332
86. Cowper's printing-machine335
87. The 'Times' printing-machine338
88. Papyrus343
89. Medal to Locke380
90. Vision of Henry I381
91. Irish mud cabin393
92. "Feed the hungry" (from Flaxman)401
93. Costermonger407
94. "Pots to mend"411
95. Statue of Watt424
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 Man99
Making ropes by machinery119
Steam-boiler making145
Shear and tilt-hammers—Steel Manufacture151
Ancient lead-mine in Derbyshire154
Coal-railway157
Locomotive-engine factory170
Stone quarry, Portland177
Timber rafts of the Tyrol178
Glass-cutting191
Plate-glass factory192
The English potter194
Mill-room of a pottery196
Cotton mule-spinning222
Power-looms229
Jacquard power-looms241
Interior of Marshall's flax-mill, Leeds250
Calico-printing by cylinder252
Bleaching-ground at Glasgow254
Electro-gilding311
Pianoforte manufactory320
Bas-relief on Gutenberg's monument323
Paper-making by hand341
Processes of bookbinding342