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• 1. African Hut12
• 2. Robinson Crusoe (from a design by Stothard)20
• 3. Dying lion25
• 4. Penn's treaty with the Indians33
• 5. Pine-marten37
• 6. Treasure-finding45
• 7. Brindley63
• 8. The hock-cart66
• 9. Adam Smith71
• 10. "Under his own vine"100
• 11. Centre of gravity113
• 12. A tool made a machine115
• 13. Spinning a rope118
• 14. Analysis of a cable119
• 15. Mill at Guy's Cliff122
• 16. Oriental plough126
• 17. Clod-crusher132
• 18. Scarifier133
• 19. Horse-hoe134
• 20. Moveable steam-engine and thrashing-machine135
• 21. Thrashing-machine with horse-power136
• 22. Draining-tile machine137
• 23. The first iron bridge, Colebrook Dale147
• 24. Rolling bar-iron149
• 25. File-cutters152
• 26. Cupids forging arrows (from Albani)156
• 27. Telford162
• 28. Modern Syrian cart165
• 29. Brindley's aqueduct over the Irwell168
• 30. Railway locomotive171
• 31. Reindeer173
• 32. Beaver174
• 33. Pyramid and sphinx176
• 34. Boulton179
• 35. Carpenters and their tools (from an old German woodcut)181
• 36. Egyptian labour in the brick-field183
• 37. Scotch carpet-loom188
• 38. Sheet-glass making192
• 39. Potter's wheel of modern Egypt195
• 40. Moulds for porcelain, and casts196
• 41. Wedgwood197
• 42. Ancient shadoof202
• 43. Conduit in Westcheap206
• 44. Old water-carrier of London208
• 45. Plug in a frost209
• 46. London street-lights, 1760211
• 47. Cotton; showing a pod bursting214
• 48. Distaff216
• 49. A Hindoo woman spinning cotton217
• 50. Sir Richard Arkwright219
• 51. Arkwright's original spinning-machine220
• 52. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning-mule222
• 53. Hindoo weaver at work in a field228
• 54. Dr. Cartwright, inventor of the power-loom229
• 55. Flemish weaver (from a print of 1568)230
• 56. Mechanism of power-loom242
• 57. Jacquard cards243
• 58. Hanks of silk247
• 59. Egyptian winding-reel247
• 60. Silk-winding machine248
• 61. Indigo-harvest In the West Indies252
• 62. Gloves for the great260
• 63. Cobbler's stall, about 1760261
• 64. Men'seg, or Egyptian embroidery frame263
• 65. Bobbin-net meshes264
• 66. Essential parts of the bobbin-net machine265
• 67. Stamping the eye of a needle269
• 68. Stamping, pressing, and punching buttons.—Elliott's factory271
• 69. Envelope-making machine275
• 70. Compositor at work277
• 71. Machine for fixing tags to laces278
• 72. Inclined plane for separating shot279
• 73. Candle-dipping machine281
• 74. Tiring a wheel281
• 75. Harrison298
• 76. Greenwich Observatory299
• 77. LinnÆus in his Lapland dress302
• 78. ElÆis Guineensis, and Cocoa butyracea, yielding palm-oil306
• 79. Franklin medal310
• 80. Newton313
• 81. Ambrose ParÉ314
• 82. Sir Walter Scott (from Sir F. Chantrey's bust)319
• 83. Statue of Bacon322
• 84. Old hand-gunner330
• 85. Carrier-pigeon332
• 86. Cowper's printing-machine335
• 87. The 'Times' printing-machine338
• 88. Papyrus343
• 89. Medal to Locke380
• 90. Vision of Henry I381
• 91. Irish mud cabin393
• 92. "Feed the hungry" (from Flaxman)401
• 93. Costermonger407
• 94. "Pots to mend"411
• 95. Statue of Watt424

The Present Edition is Illustrated with Twenty-four additional Cuts, on separate pages, of Manufacturing Processes, &c., which are to be placed as follows:—

• Bursting of Dykes. The forces of Nature overcoming the industry of Man99
• Making ropes by machinery119
• Steam-boiler making145
• Shear and tilt-hammers—Steel Manufacture151
• Ancient lead-mine in Derbyshire154
• Coal-railway157
• Locomotive-engine factory170
• Stone quarry, Portland177
• Timber rafts of the Tyrol178
• Glass-cutting191
• Plate-glass factory192
• The English potter194
• Mill-room of a pottery196
• Cotton mule-spinning222
• Power-looms229
• Jacquard power-looms241
• Interior of Marshall's flax-mill, Leeds250
• Calico-printing by cylinder252
• Bleaching-ground at Glasgow254
• Electro-gilding311
• Pianoforte manufactory320
• Bas-relief on Gutenberg's monument323
• Paper-making by hand341
• Processes of bookbinding342