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A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.

Crimean War, England: receiving lint to be sent to Scutari. Wood engraving by LEA. W.

Palais de L'Industrie, Paris. Etching.

Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.

Crimean War, England: women manufacturing lint for the army. Wood engraving by W. Sheeres, 1855.

Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.

Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

Textiles: a belt-driven cutting machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.

Textiles: a roving machine for cotton manufacture. Engraving, c. 1858.

Technology incubators : nurturing small firms / OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy.

Industrielle Psychotechnik : der Mensch. Eignung, Leistung, Charakter, Verhalten.

Good practice in industry-science relations : benchmarking papers no. 5/2002 / European Communities Commission.

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Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

Technology incubators : nurturing small firms / OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy.

Industrielle Psychotechnik : der Mensch. Eignung, Leistung, Charakter, Verhalten.

Good practice in industry-science relations : benchmarking papers no. 5/2002 / European Communities Commission.