Gun-boring machinery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1813.

Inauguration ceremony, Crystal Palace, London, 1851.

Technical drawing of a Watt steam engine, 1787.

Brunel's mortising machine, 1820.

Walrus being shot during one of Captain Cook's three Pacific voyages, 1770s.

Waterwheel, Egypt, c 1798.

Nottingham Water Works, 1856.

Advertisement for Fry's chocolate, c 1890.

'The Tunnel!!! or another Bubble Burst!', 1827.

Trade card showing the premises of George Spill & Co, c 1855.

'By Fertilizing the Soil, One Cultivates Plenty', poster, Italian, c 1900.

Britannia Tubular Bridge, Menai Straits, Wales, 1850.