'Figures de l'examen theorique du nouveau systeme de charpente' [a new structural system] stole William Cooke and others

William Cooke and others

Cheapside by Bow Church

it relates to a major railway incident when the express from London to Scotland ran into another train at Kirtlebridge Station on 2nd October 1872

Gordon Durie

which looks like a butterfly

'Figures de l'examen theorique du nouveau systeme de charpente' [a new structural system] stole William Cooke and othersPlate 6 from the paper "De la structure des vaisseaux Anglais, consideree dans ses derniers perfectionnements" by Charles Dupin, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 86 135. Figure 3 has been corrected, a new version overlaying the original an attached by sealing wax. Original: ink on paper. 1816