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Hydraulics: a hydro-pneumatic workbench. Engraving by A. W. Warren after R. Cocking.

Hydraulics: a hydro-pneumatic workbench, details. Engraving by A. W. Warren after R. Cocking.

Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.

A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.

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Hydraulics: a hydro-pneumatic workbench, details. Engraving by A. W. Warren after R. Cocking.

A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.

Hydraulics: a hydro-pneumatic workbench. Engraving by A. W. Warren after R. Cocking.

Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.