The view of builders at work, taken from a fifteenth century manuscript, sufficiently explains some of the mechanical appliances then in use. (p. 174) We see builders using a winch and pulley to raise [...]
Slave labour! The men working in this illustration are scantily clad: they wear shorts or loin-cloths, and have bare backs and bare feet. An ox-driver leans with his stick against two oxen; he has a [...]
When this book was published in 1841, the Houses of Parliament building was not finished; the engraving here shows them partly built. “We should have been glad to have furnished our readers with a vie [...]
