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Machinery: a pile-driving hammer, mounted on existing piles, with two men operating it. Engraving after J. Besson.
Wellcome Collection

Machinery: a pile-driving hammer, mounted on existing piles, with two men operating it. Engraving after J. Besson.

Jacques Besson

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Nova machinae structura non vulgaris, ad palos oblique defigendos in aquam, ut recta defixi priores pali, plus virium obtineant, ad eaquae superstruenda venient

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