Images Dated 22nd June 2004

Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from Shipwr

Engraving showing Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom) a whip-block and tally-board; a hawser-cutter; a heaving-cane and line; a rocket machine; a fuse-box; a rocket; whip, hawser and breeches-buoy; a light; Board of Trade wagon; a cliff ladder in use; a triangle; a rocket-line box; a portfire; the rocket-line box from above; an anchor; a cliff-helmet

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Mental patient strapped into a restraining chair

Restraining chair. Engraving of a mentalpatient strapped into a restraining chair whichprevents movement. The patient has a device on hishead to restrict that part of his body. The chairhas a bucket attached to the underside to catchthe patient's excreta. Image of the "tranquilizingchair" of 1811 which was designed by Americandoctor Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). An influentialphysician, Rush tried to establish humaneconditions for the treatment of the insane and isknown as the "father of American psychiatry".However, he also believed that insanity could becured by bleeding and purging the patient

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The Sea Messenger, 1870

Engraving of the Sea Messenger, a lifeboat designed for ships letters and papers, invented by J.A.R. Vandenbergh. As many ships carried mail and state papers, there was always a chance that vitally important paperwork could be lost in a shipwreck. Vandenbergh intended this rugged little vessel to be carried aboard mail ships, ready to save the paperwork in the event of its parent vessel being wrecked

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