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Civil engineering: building the Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal. Coloured lithograph by the Kell brothers, 1860.

Architecture: two composite roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

Architecture: diagrammatic roof trusses. Engraving [after S. H. Brooks?], 1850.

Civil engineering: three types of wooden bridge. Engraving by R. Roffe, 1848.

Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, short section and plan of the water-wheel mechanism. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

Building: three trusses from specific London buildings. Etching by W. A. Beever after C. S. Duncan.

Ship-building: detail showing various types of ship, Brig, Billander, Dogger, Galley, Galliot, Schooner, Sloop, Xebec. Engraving by J. Taylor.

Two men sawing a baulk of timber in a woodyard, in Korea.

Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, on the left, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground, on the right the Royal Dockyard on the Isle of Dogs. Engraving.

Civil engineering: bridge over the river Clyde, Glasgow. Engraving by H. Adlard, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.

Building: iron supports for rotten timber. Engraving by W. Kelsall after A. Ainger.

Building: section through a theatre, half cutaway, showing timber roofing and interior fittings. Etching by H. Adlard, 1849, after S. H. Brooks.

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Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, on the left, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground, on the right the Royal Dockyard on the Isle of Dogs. Engraving.

Civil engineering: bridge over the river Clyde, Glasgow. Engraving by H. Adlard, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.

Building: iron supports for rotten timber. Engraving by W. Kelsall after A. Ainger.

Building: section through a theatre, half cutaway, showing timber roofing and interior fittings. Etching by H. Adlard, 1849, after S. H. Brooks.