EditorialScene of torture. Praxis Criminis persequendi elegantibus aliquot fi. Apud S. Colin?um: Parisiis, 1541. A prisoner being stretched by a rope and pulley. Image taken from Praxis Criminis persequendi elegantibus aliquot figuris illustrata. L.P. Few MS....
Editorial(Whole folio) Pen-and-ink drawings of ladders and a grappling pulley. Della providentia della chuera. Early 16th century. Source: Add. 34113, f.192. Language: Italian.
Editorial(Whole folio) Pen-and-ink drawing of a cliff-top pulley and rope attached to the boat on the previous page (f. 50v), with a small boat on a wheeled support alongside. Della providentia della chuera. Early 16th century. . Source: Add. 34113, f.51. La...
EditorialThe nobleman and master mason inspecting the building. The house is covered in scaffolding, with ladder and pulley system; and one of the workman mixing the lime in a bucket. Behind, a walled garden with countryside in distance. Text beginning with dec...
EditorialJapanese Samurai using a pulley system to enter a fortress. . Contes pour les bibliophiles ... Nombreuses illustrations, etc. Paris, 1895. Source: 12513.m.22 opposite page 60.
EditorialThe parables of the husbandmen. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. [Lower drawing] Two parables are illustrated. On left; the stone rejected by the builders. Three masons are shown with pulley, basket of stones, plumb-bob, hammer, ma...
Editorial(Whole folio) Boat with an oar and paddles, towing a smaller vessel and attached by a rope to a cliff-top pulley, shown on the next page (f. 51). Della providentia della chuera. Early 16th century. Source: Add. 34113, f.50v. Language: Italian.
EditorialPulley, 3rd?5th century, Made in Byzantine Egypt, Coptic, Wood, Overall: 2 7/8 x 1 7/16 x 11/16 in. (7.3 x 3.7 x 1.7 cm), Woodwork-Miscellany.
EditorialPulley, 3rd?5th century, Made in Byzantine Egypt, Coptic, Wood, Overall: 3 7/8 x 2 5/16 x 1 5/16 in. (9.9 x 5.9 x 3.3 cm), Woodwork-Miscellany.
EditorialDaniel Masere's original suspension pulley and fire escape machine simplified by Mr. Forster, painter's easel and indigo mills. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of A...
EditorialArcher with two-pulley winch crossbow, and details of the pulley mechanisms of the crossbow, late 15th century. Winding mechanism B/C, roller D/E, pulley system F, and foot stirrup G/H. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Ap...
EditorialGarden bed plan 1, forcing frame 2, pulley 3, perpendicular pulley 4, transplanting instrument 5, handglass 6, rose 7, and watering pot 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from James Maddock's "The Florist's Directory," London, John Harding, 1810. Ne...
EditorialTravelling Steam Lokomobile Maschinenfabrik Rudolf Wolf, Magdeburg-Buckau, 1862. This first locomobile of the Wolf company was used to drive threshing machines. It was in use from 1862 to 1887 on a farm near Strassfurt. Horses drew the machine to its p...
EditorialThe saltmines of Wieliczka near Cracow produced roughly one third of the Polish kings' income. With its enormous machinery made of huge timbers, the mine was an early tourist attraction-even poet Goethe went down the shafts. Rope-and pulley system.