A penal treadmill (penal treadwheel or everlasting staircase) was a treadwheel or treadmill with steps set into two cast iron wheels. These drove a shaft...

Omnidirectional treadmill, a device that allows a person to perform locomotive motion in any direction Penal treadmill, a treadmill that was used to...

measure of inflation. It is possible that Dando spent time on the penal treadmill; the magistrate at his next trial made reference to the possibility...

crank machines in use, but by 1901 there were only 5. Penal treadmill Britannica on the treadmill. 13th edition: Encyclopædia Britannica. 1926. Retrieved...

change her name to protect the children. Prison life is grueling; the penal treadmill permanently wrecks Wilde's health. Bosie tells Robbie he will look...

Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard...

famously by Brunelleschi during the construction of Florence cathedral. Penal treadmills were used in prisons during the early Victorian period in the UK as...

the first prisons to introduce penal treadmills in 1821). There is an illustration of prisoners on the 1821 treadmill used to mill corn in Surrey House...

meaningless labour intended to be physically exhausting, such as the penal treadmill. By the mid-1930s, most servitude was of the latter type, being in...

for up to three days. It has one of the last working penal treadmills in Britain. The treadmill at Beaumaris is unusual in that it pumped water to the...