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"Fosdike Windmill, 1604"

RHSC-04-029
Item
1604

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Hayward's map showing location of mill.

"Brueghel - view of a post mill"

RHSC-01-01-010
Item
1614

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

Fen Drainage Mill - drawing

RHSC-01-01-171
Item
1652 (copy)

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Drawing of a fen drainage mill taken from 'The English Improver Improved' 1652.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Hydraulique, Moulin à Vent de Meudon"

MCFC-ENG-012
Item
18th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Benard, Robert (1734-1777), engraver

"Hydraulique, Moulin à Eau"

MCFC-ENG-041
Item
18th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Benard, Robert (1734-1777), engraver

"Hydraulique, Moulin à Eau"

MCFC-ENG-040
Item
18th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Benard, Robert (1734-1777), engraver

"Pneumatics"

MCFC-ENG-042
Item
18th century

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Taylor, Isaac (1730-1807), engraver

Photo of a 1710 map of Clerkenwell, London showing a windmill at the New River Pool

REXW-IMG-05-270
Item
1710 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

"From Crace [?]. A later edition of Morgan's Map c 1710".

Unknown photographer

Detail from an oil painting, post mill, Richmond

KGFC-GPN-E-077
Item
No date (copy of painting from c 1730)

Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection

Farries, Kenneth G, author

"The Windmill fixed on Newgate to work the Ventilators erected there April 17: 1752"

MCFC-ENG-011
Item
April 1752

Part of Mildred Cookson Foundation Collection

Gentleman's Magazine, The

Engraving of a windmill (3/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-262
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed the parts which are lettered L, M, N and O on the drawing as "les ailes". RW notes that these originals can be copied.

Prévost, Benoît-Louis (1747-1804), engraver

Structural drawing of a windmill interior (5/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-264
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Original title reads, "OEconomie Rustique, Moulin a exprimer l'Huile des Graines". Rex Wailes' note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1762" and then lists the labelled parts A to H in French, " A. & B. l'arbre fournant, C. le rouet. D. rouet horizontal, D./F. l'arbre vertical, E. la lanterne, G. un rouet, H. le gross arbre horizontal".

Unknown artist

Structural drawing of a windmill interior (6/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-265
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

A second/cleaner copy of REXW-IMG-03-263, title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". Rex Wailes' note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopedia, original can be copied".

Unknown artist

Structural drawing of a windmill interior (7/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-266
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

A third version of REXW-IMG-03-263, title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent".

Unknown artist

Structural drawing of a windmill (1/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-260
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed various English technical terms and given their meaning in French, "Teeth = aluchon, Neck irons = allumelles de fer, bearings = collets, wedges = clés, pins [(....)] = juseaux, [.....], bedstone = gissante".

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Structural drawing of a windmill (2/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-261
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed the 87 parts enumerated on the drawing and applied the French terms to several of them. For example, "65. le frein, 73. l'auget".

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Structural drawing of machinery for a windmill interior (8/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-267
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Rex Wailes' note on the reverse reads, "from Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Original can be copied".

Unknown artist

Structural drawing of a windmill interior (4/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-263
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1762".

Unknown artist

Saw mill engraving

SMDN-2021-0024
Item
1769

Part of Small Donations

Depicting the wind-powered saw mill constructed by Charles Dingley at Limehouse in 1767. It was opposed by local sawyers who believed it was undercutting their work and it was badly damaged by rioters on 10 May 1768. A copy of article "Charles DIngley, projector, and his Limehouse sawmill" by John H Appleby also included.

The Oxford Magazine

Hull - Humber Bank tower mill

ROYG-IMG-01-205
Item
1770

Part of Roy Gregory Collection

Drawing of Humber Bank Mill with the town and church in the background.

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