Wheels / by Oliver Hill and Hans Tisdall

Oliver Hill

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/1723

Author

Imprint

London: Pleiades Books Ltd., 1946

Physical Description

49 pages : illustrations ; 26 x 21 cm.

General Note

`First published in Great Britain 1946 by Pleiades Books Ltd, 11 Fitzroy Square, London, W1. Printed by McLagan & Cumming Ltd., Edinburgh and London.’ [Rear pastedown].

Contents

The potter's wheel -- Disc wheels -- Assyrian and Egyptian chariot wheels -- A wooden Egyptian wheel -- Types of primitive wheels -- Cochios and whirlicotes -- Windlass and the toothed wheel -- Water-wheels -- Windmills -- The spinning wheels -- Clocks and watches -- Caroaches and coaches -- Stage and mail coaches -- The wheelwright -- Types of waggon wheels -- James Watt -- George Stephenson -- Bicycles -- Paddle-wheels -- Omnibus and handsom cab -- Wheels on the farm -- St. Catherine's wheel.

Binding Note

Original grey cloth backed yellow pictorial boards.

Subject

Illustrated books
Colour lithographs

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