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Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].

Clocks: various pocket watches, and details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.

Clocks: an escapement mechanism. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine. Coloured drawing.

Engineering: a large cogwheel, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1875.

Astronomy: a mechanism for a model of planetary motion. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.

Engineering: large cogs meshing together, and diagrams of epicycloid curves. Colour lithograph by Stanislas Petit, ca. 1905.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.

The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.

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Engineering: a large cogwheel, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1875.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.

The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.