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Assembly-line methods

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Images referencing Assembly-line methods

3 images from works
  • A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.
  • A shaving machine enabling many people to be shaved at the same time. Coloured etching.
  • A shaving machine enabling many people to be shaved at the same time. Coloured etching.

Works from the collections

5 works

    • Books

    The man on the assembly line / by Charles R. Walker and Robert H. Guest.

    Walker, Charles R. (Charles Rumford), 1893-1974. | Date: 1952
    • Pictures

    Bottles on a conveyor belt being filled with pasteurized milk. Colour lithograph, 1954.

    National Dairy Council. | Date: 1954 | Reference: 679671i
    • Pictures

    A shaving machine enabling many people to be shaved at the same time. Coloured etching.

    | Date: [between 1780 and 1789?] | Reference: 30944i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Reference: 30953i
    • Books

    Auto work and its discontents / edited by B. J. Widick ; foreword by Eli Ginzberg.

    | Date: [1976]

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