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Farming: a threshing machine designed by Richard Hornsby mounted on a cart: cutaway side elevation, and details. Wood engraving after R. Hornsby, 1862.

Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Coloured drawing, 1823 or 1855.

Five diagrams of a cider mill, cider press and water-wheel. Engraving, c. 1790 (?).

Two men perhaps milling foodstuffs in a vat with a millwheel driven by two oxen. Gouache drawing, 18--.

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

A man winding a large cider press. Engraving, late 18th century (?).

Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving by Cook.

Items of farm equipment and machinery, including presses, churns and mills. Engraving by J. Hulett.

Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving, 1737.

A horse-drawn circular cider mill. Process print after a painting by E. Borough Johnson.

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark c. 1640. Engraving by C.

A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.

Farming: six threshing machines, in side elevation. Engraving.

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Milling machinery

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Works from the collections

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.

A horse-drawn circular cider mill. Process print after a painting by E. Borough Johnson.

A man winding a large cider press. Engraving, late 18th century (?).

Farming: six threshing machines, in side elevation. Engraving.

Milling machinery

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Images referencing Milling machinery

Works from the collections

A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.

A horse-drawn circular cider mill. Process print after a painting by E. Borough Johnson.

A man winding a large cider press. Engraving, late 18th century (?).

Farming: six threshing machines, in side elevation. Engraving.

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