Treadmill Collection

Collieries, c1805. Pithead scene at a coal mine. At the bottom a horse whim is raising coal from the pit and a man is breaking coal with a pick

Brixton purgatory, 1822. Prisoners Theodore Hook, William Cobbett, Henry Hunt and Thomas Wooler on the treadmill at Brixton Prison

The Show-man, 1799. Creator: Monogrammist J.A
The Show-man, 1799. Keep your eye close to the Glass - and you will see a large / vide place full of Death and Destruction - where more / plagues await de frequenters den contained in de famous Box

Samson and the Philistines, 1863. Creator: Carl Bloch
Samson and the Philistines, 1863

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro... 1556
I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia, 1556

The Giant Wheel, from Carceri d invenzioni (Imaginary Prisons), ca. 1749-50

Prisoners Working on the Treadmill, c1934. Illustration showing the 19th century method of forcing idle prisoners to take exercise

The Discipline Mill at Brixton Prison, Lambeth, London, 1821
View of the discipline-mill, erected at the house of correction at Brixton, Lambeth, London, 1821. Brixton Prison was opened in 1820; the treadmill was installed the following year

Scene from slave life, 1965. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965

British prison life, 1907. Treadmill for hard labour, and punishment with the cat-o-nine-tails. France was suffering from gangs of thugs called the Apaches at this time

Prisoners at Clerkenwell House of Correction, London, 1874. Prisoners, in prison uniform, take their turn on the treadmill while the men who have just done their stint wait in silence until it is

Prison discipline, 1888. Prisoners at hard labour on the treadwheel in an English local jail. The prisoner had 15 minutes on, 5 minutes off the wheel, until his time was finished for the day

Crushing gold bearing ores in mills similar in principle to flour mills, 1556. At bottom left goats in a treadmill produce horizontal power which is transferred to a mill (A)

Huntingdon County Gaol and House of Correction, England, built c1828 to design by William Wilkins. Radiating principle Treadmills for grinding corn and raising water worked by prisoners. Woodcut

Treadmill at Brixton prison, London, 1827. Artist: Rudolph Ackermann
Treadmill at Brixton prison, London, 1827. Introduced for prison discipline by William Cubitt of Ipswich. Print published by Ackermann, London, 1827. Hand-coloured engraving

Raising a slab of stone using a block-and-tackle mechanism, 1620. Copperplate engraving of a treadmill powered by men lifting a slab of stone using a block and tackle

Pump powered by men in a treadmill, 1556. Woodcut showing a rag-and-chain pump for draining a mine, powered by men walking a treadmill

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