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Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

5 sheets

Drawings of the Midland Railway Extension to London (St Pancras)

33 drawings

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

175

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

190

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

290

Volume of reports by British science teachers on the 1867 Paris exhibition

270

Collection of letters to Charles Babbage

19 items

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

0.02 linear metres

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

105

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

110

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

130

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

110

Diary of Jeremiah Head, railway engineer for Robert Stephenson and Co, part founder of Fox, Head and Co

1 item

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Manuscript notebook with handcoloured sketches and a fold out plan at the back. The book is contained in a box.

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

2 items

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

2 volumes

Printed booklets of Special Rules and Regulations to be observed at specific collieries in England and Wales, made pursuant to the Coal Mines Regulations Act, 1872

19 booklets

Letters patent (no. 2871) granted to Henry Woodcroft Hammond for 'An Improved Compound Blower'

1 item

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

2 items

Sviluppo di alcuni corpi Stereometrico Mineralogici secondo i celebri Autori Dufrenoy, Hauy, Mohs, Rose, Neumann

240

Letters patent (no. 992) granted to Captain William Henry Cutler for 'Improvements in Turbines'

2 parts

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

0.5 linear metres

Letters from William Crookes to his laboratory assistant, Charles Henry Gimingham

10

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

205

Letter from the War Department to Mrs Wilsdon

200

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

215

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

1 item

Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

Parchment, with attached wax seal in can

Letters patent (no.522) granted to William Millard for 'Improvements in Jacquard looms'

1 item

Photograph album entitled: 'Products of the Gutta Percha Company'

260

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

20

Elementary Chemistry: Lecture Notes of Prof. A. W. Hofmann, Berlin, Germany

180

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

1000

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

220

Letters patent (no. 1471) granted to Joseph Rothery and Andrew Rothery for 'Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for cutting coal, stone and other minerals'

220

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

15

Brewer's Journal (production record of the Stag Brewery, Wooburn Green, Bucks.)

10

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

10

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

260

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

On parchment, with attached wax seal in can

A bound volume written in clerk's hand, presented by Henry Minchin Noad to Museum of Economic Geology

265

Volume entitled: "Some Account of Lewis Paul and his Invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by Rollers and his claim to such Invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt"

185

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

0.01 linear metres

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

130

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

On parchment, with attached wax seal (broken) in can

Laboratory Book of Sir Oliver Lodge

200

Notes on Civil Engineering

220

Union Patriotic Envelope No. 2 Cotton Is King!

141

Drawings of Robert Stephenson's steam engine Rocket by John Dobson Wardale

5 documents

Parts of plan, elevation and section of rising platforms for store. Superseded in following sheet.

Dimensions: 65 cm x 97 cm