Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Zoological studies of a 'Calandra'

Zoological studies of a 'Calandra' from North America [possibly the female Horned lark Eremophila alpestris] posed on a turf divot

inscribed in ink 'Caprifolium non perfoliatum flore interius albo rubro externe Boerh

An 18th century illustration of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Transverse section of St John's Chapel in the White Tower

Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Zoological studies of a 'Calandra'Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1814. From Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker, 1814. Mining engineer and inventor John Blenkinsop (1783 1831) designed the first practicable steam locomotive, the 'Salamanca', in 1812. It operated by means of a rack and pinion system. Richard Trevithick had built a steam locomotive in 1805 for Wylam colliery, but it had been too heavy for the cast iron rails it was meant