Figures & data
FIGURE 1. Robinson’s patent sugar cane mills (Mechanics Magazine, 2 October 1841).
FIGURE 2. Drawings for a tea-making machine by ‘Mr Thomas Waters, Nagasaki’ (Engineering, 3 January 1868).
FIGURE 3. H. O. Robinson, Sugar Mill Patent 1859. This was perhaps the model installed in the Philippines in 1867 (Grace’s Guide).
FIGURE 4. FaÇade of the Osaka Mint designed by T. J. Waters (Author, 2014).
FIGURE 5. The Sempukan, designed by Waters to house the Commissioner of the Osaka Mint and important guests (Author, 2014).
FIGURE 6. A drawing/painting by Tom Waters of the proposed Mikado’s Palace Extension(© National Archives of Japan).
FIGURE 7. An example of the circular Hoffmann kilns being constructed in England in the late 1860s and early 1870s (Photographer unknown).
