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Architecture: tools, derricks, and windlasses. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.

A multiple-way joint of timber and iron for barrack building. Engraving by G. Aikman after W. Ferrier.

Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.

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

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

Civil engineering: the Conway box girder bridge, viewed from entrance level. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after himself.

George Shaw (Builders) Ltd : directors G.R. Shaw, M. Shaw : 3, Wigmore Place, London, W.1...

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

Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.

Architecture: a dog-leg staircase and details. Engraving by A. Bell.

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

Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.

Kahncrete engineering. Reinforced concrete in hospital buildings / [edited by E. Temple Orme].

Civil engineering: a chart of the Menai straits, showing the building of the box girder bridge. Lithograph after E. Clark, 1849.

Architecture: tessellated ceilings, roof timbers, and coffers. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

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

Kahncrete engineering. Reinforced concrete in hospital buildings / [edited by E. Temple Orme].

Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.

Civil engineering: a chart of the Menai straits, showing the building of the box girder bridge. Lithograph after E. Clark, 1849.

Architecture: tessellated ceilings, roof timbers, and coffers. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

Building

Images from the collections

Images about Building

Works from the collections

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

Kahncrete engineering. Reinforced concrete in hospital buildings / [edited by E. Temple Orme].

Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.

Civil engineering: a chart of the Menai straits, showing the building of the box girder bridge. Lithograph after E. Clark, 1849.

Architecture: tessellated ceilings, roof timbers, and coffers. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

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