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Textile mill safety notice

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1900-1940

Scale drawing of Nottingham Water Works Engine House, England, 1851-1860

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1850-1859

Printout of the Daisyworld programme

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1981

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

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1826

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

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1880-1890

Oil painting, portrait of Richard Johnson, of Richard Johnson and Nephew

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Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

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1850-1859
[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. Whole views and component details. Black ink or pencil on both sides of sheet. No scale]

[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. W

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ca.1909-1910
Photographic print showing the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919. From an expedition to Sobral, Brazil, which confirmed predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Archive reference code: EVER/A/3/E251.

Photograph of solar eclipse, 1919

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about 1919
Jean Elizabeth Gregson’s competition entry for the Royal College of Art Competition of Industrial Designs, Manchester, around 1929-1936.

Competition textile design

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1929-1936
Poster produced by Greenpeace with the text 'It’s deadly serious Mr Reagan / Nuclear Weapons Testing must Stop', and a graphic portrait of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, about 1985. This forms part of the Walt Patterson archive, and is autographed to Patterson from Greenpeace in silver pen in the top right-hand corner.

Anti-nuclear Greenpeace poster: 'It’s deadly serious Mr Reagan'

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about 1985

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

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1859
Textile sample book, around 1835, containing samples of printed cotton fabric.

Textile sample book

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1835-1860
Goods invoice for cotton yarn transported on the London & North Western Railway through Liverpool Road Station on 16 June 1882.

London and North Western Railway goods invoice

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1882-06-16

Handwritten pocket diary for 1919

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1919
[Letter] 1910 Jan 6, North Road Works, St. Helens [to] S.F. Cody, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool / Fred Brown, builder & contractor [&] timber merchant.

[Letter] 1910 Jan 6, North Road Works, St. Helens

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1910

Concorde Fact Sheet

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1977-1978
[Copy bills, 2 on 1 leaf, to] Messrs. Lloyds, Gosport / Sam'l Jallicoe [Jellicoe, and] Thos. Lewis, [re machinery supplied Jul-Sept]

invoice

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1805

Handwritten pocket diary for 1916

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1916
[One of 34 printed advertisements (34)] Henry Maudslay & Co. Engineers, London. [See Pt1]

advertisement

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1812-1813
[Letter] 1910 Jan 28, North Road Works, St. Helens [to] S.F. Cody, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool / Fred Brown, builder & contractor [&] timber merchant.

[Letter] 1910 Jan 28, North Road Works, St. Helens

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1910

Handwritten pocket diary for 1915

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1915-1919

Handwritten pocket diary for 1918

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1918
The Gurney Cash Book: Ledger of The London Warming Co. for period 1856 Aug to 1868 Jul. [Includes information on associated Museum object 1959-10, a Gurney stove from Gloucester Cathedral. 1 vol., 176 (i.e. 352)p.]

The Gurney Cash Book: Ledger of The London Warming Co.

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1856-1868
[One of 820 civil and engineering drawings, chiefly of Bramah & Robinson. Drawing no. 1/23: 'Plan and Sections of a Tread Mill, by J. Bramah & Sons, Engineers, Pimlico, proposed for the Gaol at Norwich'. ca.1820. Line drawing with wash. Scale 1" : 4']

Plans and Sections of a Tread Mill ...

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c. 1820
[Ms. letter] 1802 Apr 19 [to] Brigadier General Bentham, Plymouth Dock / Mc. Brunel. [2p. on 1 leaf, holograph signed. He will call on Mr Poole and ask him 'to delay the further progress of the patent'. He has 'not yet compleated the little Machine' for he has been making 'a small instrument to assist me in cutting the Screws'. Re Bentham's letter to the Admiralty Brunel adds 'I feel particularly gratefull for the favourable manner in which you express yourself respecting my Block Machines']

[Ms. letter] 1802 Apr 19 [to] Brigadier General Be

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1802

Bolt ends featuring giraffe design

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1880-1940

Business Records from Langworthy Brothers & Co Ltd

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1832-1835
A New [printed] List of .... Bevil, Spur, and Mitre Gear .... At Peel and Williams' Iron and Brass Foundry, Shudehill-pitts and at Soho Foundry, Manchester. 1814 Mar 25. [Bears engraved illustrations of scenes at the foundry]

list of manufactured products

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1814
[Edition of the Daily Express (of 5 Oct 1936) reporting riots in the East End of London]

Daily Express

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1936
[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. Whole views and component details. Black ink or pencil on both sides of sheet. No scale]

[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. W

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ca.1909-1910

Handwritten pocket diary for 1917

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1917
William Fairnbairn's notebook of experiments in the use of various coals on boiler efficiency.

William Fairbairn Notebook

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1840-1870
Six gramophone record postcards in printed envelope made by Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, London.

Gramophone Record Postcards

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1940-1950
2 paper wraps containing 21 fabric bolt ends from various companies, including Spruce & Co. and Jacobs.

Collection of cotton bolt ends

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1880-1940
Handkerchief depicting the Sankey viaduct, commemorating the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, c1830.

Liverpool & Manchester Railway handkerchief

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c1830
Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' pulling carriages, entitled 'Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,' by Isaac Shaw, 1831.

Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

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1831
A collection of archival materials including photographs, case studies and design drawings which contextualise the Dextralog objects. The archive consists of the following items: 1 x black folder – Nova 3/12 operating manual; 1 x manual on other versions of the Nova computer; 1 x design drawing showing circuit diagram of a remote multiplexer; 1 x design drawing for the selector box donated; 2 x cards that went into the selector box to show the operator which programme she/he was choosing.

Archive material relating to Dextralog

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1973-1983
Framed watercolour painting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, George St., c1850-1899

Painting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

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c 1850-1899
Framed advertisement for a self-acting grinding machine manufactured by William Muir & Co. Ltd. The advert is taken from William Muir's catalogue, 1903.

William Muir & Co. Ltd advertisement

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1903
3 watercolour paintings of mills by Frank Wightman, with notes on the history and management of each, 1974-1975

Watercolour paintings of mills by Frank Wightman

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1974-1975
Two watercolour paintings of the Beyer, Peacock works by Andrew Garnley. c1960-1969

2 watercolour paintings of the Beyer, Peacock works by Andrew Garnley

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c1960-1969
Textile sample printed with rural scenes in red dyes, maker unknown.

Textile sample printed with rural scenes in red dyes.

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Framed drawing of the Original Garrett Patent Specification drawn by S. Jackson, 1907

Framed drawing of the Original Garrett Patent Specification drawn by S. Jackson.

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1907; 1907
Engineering drawing for a Proposed Cradle Type Locomotive. Technical drawing in 3 elevations. Beyer Peacock Ltd., Oct 9th 1907.

Beyer, Peacock engineering drawing

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1907
Engineering drawing showing a steam locomotive in cross-section, c 1900.

Engineering drawing showing a steam locomotive in cross-section.

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c 1900
Proposal drawing for New South Wales Government Railway cradle type locomotive (Garratt's system). Drawing number 71411. Draughtsman: S. Jackson, Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd, 1907.

Proposal drawing for cradle type locomotive

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1907
Broadsheet newspaper advertising washing machines, wringers and mangles manufactured by Thomas Bradford & Co. With invoice. c.1885-1903

Newspaper advertising products by Thomas Bradford & Co.

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c 1885-1903
The Examiner 12-9-1813 [MS/1931]

The Examiner 12-9-1813

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Function and circuit diagrams of each separate unit in LEO II. Including logic flow diagrams for each function and timing charts, 1957-60.

Function and circuit diagrams for LEO II

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1957-60