Article: Description of the treadmill invented by Mr William Cubitt of Ipswich

ARTICLE: Description of the treadmill invented by Mr. William Cubitt of Ipswich for the employment of prisoners, and recommended by the Society for the improvement of prison discipline.

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A penal treadmill was a treadmill with interior steps set into two cast iron wheels. These drove a shaft that could be used to mill corn, pump water or connect to a large fan for resistance. They were used in prisons in the early Victorian period in Britain as a method of exerting hard labour, a form of punishment prescribed in the prisoner's sentence. The treadwheel was introduced to prisons in 1818 by the British engineer Sir William Cubitt (1785 - 1861) as a means of usefully occupying convicts in the prisons at Bury St Edmunds and Brixton.

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