This book is a reproduction of a Bailey catalogue (seventeenth edition) circa 1880. There are 350 pages that contain a wide variety of engineering items both large and small. An advertising section of 60 pages provides more information.Those who are interested in Heritage Technology will find the contents of this catalogue absorbing, it depicts numerous devices. Those who study social history will see the many different aspects of technology from watchman’s clocks to cotton mill speed recorders.Items listed in the catalogue include…absolute vacuum gauge, acid pumps, air compressors, alphabetical telegraph, American strap fasteners, automatic horse feeder, balloon escape valve, band sawing machine, bar gauge, barometers, beer engines, bellows, bells, belt glue, belts, bench cropper, bench dog, billiard marking board, biscuit machine, blast forge, blast gauge, blowing machine, boiler alarms, bone crusher, bottling machines, bread makers, brushes, buckets, burglar detectors, carbons, card tables, centrifugal pumps, chartometer, chucks, circular saw, clitograph, cocks of all types, collier equipment, compound magnets, cone tubes, copying press, corking machines, cotter pins, cotton mill speed clocks, cotton mill speed recorder, cotton press, dies, differential pulleys , dining room clock, disintegrator, donkey engines, donkey pumps, double lip safety valves, drilling machines, egg boilers, ejectors, electric bells, electric bells, engine counter, engine house clock, engine indicators, epicyclodial pulley blocks, equilibrium valves, escape valve, exhausters, expansion joints, files, filters, fire engines, fire escapes, fire hoses, fire pumps, fog bell, friction crane, fuel economisers, furnace bars, fusible plug, gas and water meters, gas fittings, gas fixtures, gas gauge, gas machine, gas meter indexes, gas valves, gauge glasses, governor for steam engines, grindstones, gun metal packing, gyrometer, gyrometric governors, hammers, hop presses, hoses, hot hearth, hydrants, hydraulic gauges, hydraulic motors, hydraulic organ blower, hydraulic rams, hydro extractor, injectors, junction valve, kegs, lard and tallow press, lathes, lead rope, Leclanche battery, lightning conductors, locomotive balance, locomotive whistles, low water alarms, lubricators, magneting machine, managers’ clocks, mild steel, mitre machine, musical boxes, musical boxes, nail puller, oil cans, oil syringe, oil tester, oil testers, oxide piant, oxygen regulator, paint mills, pedometers, peet valves, peg clock, pipe wrenches, piston rings, plunger pumps, pressure gauges, pulley blocks, pyrometer, railway tools, rain water goods, Ramsbottom valve, ratchet drill, reducing valves, regulators, reservoir recorder, rigging screws, rotary blowers, safety belt shipper, safety valves, saw bench, screwing machine, screws, scroll saw, scumming apparatus, seaming machine, sediment separator, shears, signal bells, sluice valves, smoke preventor, speaking tubes, speed indicators, spindle indicator, spiral springs, spirit fountains, spirit levels, springs, starting valve, steam boiler fittings, steam boilers, steam dryer, steam jet pumps, steam joint cement, steam kettle, steam packing, steam pans, steam pumps, steam roarer, stench traps, stop cocks, stop valves, stoves, suet cups, sweep saw, sympathetic dials, tallow cups, taps, taps, telegraph equipment, telegraph instruments, tell-tale clock, terminals, test cocks, testing machines, thermometers, Thurston’s testing machine, tobacco cutter, tools, tube ferrule extractor, turnstiles, turret clocks, unions, universal disintegrator, vacuum gauges, valves for air escape, ventilators, vices, wagon oiling machine, washer cutter, watchman’s clock, watchman’s recorder, water filter, water gauge, water gauges, water recorders, well pumps, winding indicators, wire netting