<i>Mechanic Powers, with their Application in Cranes, Mills & other / Compound Engines</i>
date: label: date made
content: ca 1790
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving illustrated the “System of Mechanics” article in the second volume of William Henry Hall, <i>The New Royal Encyclopaedia, or Complete Modern Dictionary of Arts and Sciences</i> (London, 1788). The text at bottom reads “Engraved for Hall’s Encyclopaedia, & Printed for C. Cooke, Paternoster Row.” The “Lodge sculp.” signature in the lower right is probably that of John Lodge, a London engraver.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Mechanics
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330438
label: catalog number
content: 330438
label: accession number
content: 290940
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 9 in; 38.1 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 8 13/16 in; 38.1 cm x 22.38375 cm