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![Coldbath Fields Prison - House of Correction in London - the treadmill - Coldbath Fields - London Engraving 1868 Coldbath Fields Prison - House of Correction in London - the treadmill - Coldbath Fields - London Engraving 1868](https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/kunstwerke/1260px/Unknown_Artist_-_Coldbath_Fields_Prison_-_House_of_Correction_in_London_-_the_treadmill_-_Coldbat_-_%28MeisterDrucke-932650%29.jpg)
Coldbath Fields Prison - House of Correction in London - the treadmill - Coldbath Fields - London Engraving 1868
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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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TIL one of the first mass produced Treadmills were by Sir William Cubitt in 1818, who used it to torture inmates in jails of England. It consisted of 24 inmates side by
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![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
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I tried the Victorian treadmill prisoner punishment and it was the worst New Year's Eve ever' - MyLondon
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