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Clocks: faces (top), and mechanisms (below) of a Ferguson (right), and a Smeaton-Franklin clock (left). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

Engineering: cross-sections of the hammer designed by John Smeaton for use in iron manufacture. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey the younger.

Machinery designed by Smeaton for extracting coal from the pits. Etching by W. Lowry after J. Farey.

Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock face (left), and mechanism (right). Engraving by A. Bell, ca. 1798.

An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea / [John Smeaton].

An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion / [John Smeaton].

A description of a new pyrometer : with a table of experiments made therewith / [John Smeaton].

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Smeaton, John, 1724-1792

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An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea / [John Smeaton].

An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills, and other machines, depending on a circular motion / [John Smeaton].

A description of a new pyrometer : with a table of experiments made therewith / [John Smeaton].