![Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald. | Wellcome Collection Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald. | Wellcome Collection](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0041192/full/300,/0/default.jpg)
Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald. | Wellcome Collection
![Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-. | Wellcome Collection Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-. | Wellcome Collection](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0031241/full/760%2C/0/default.jpg)
Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-. | Wellcome Collection
Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum - Talking of mills......the treadmill, as an instrument of prison discipline, was invented by William Cubitt, an inhabitant of Ipswich, Suffolk William Cubitt (1785-1861) was born at Dilham
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