A collection of glass lantern slides capturing the development of flight from an early set of images from the 1909 aviation meeting held at Reims, France through to images of aircraft from Imperial Airways and flying boats in the late Thirties. The History of Aircraft and Flying
670 Map of England and Wales with part of Scotland shewing distinctly the Navigable Canals & Rivers Now Completed or under Execution
2 items Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron
2 items Extracts from correspondence relating to the installation of a steam engine at the Royal Foundry, Woolwich Arsenal
565 Engineering drawing: International Exhibition 1862; Machinery Department; Chimney for Boiler House
240 Certificates from Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, and the Captains of His Majesty's ships Dragon, Superb etc.
"Notes taken during a course of chemical lectures given at Paris in the Winter of 1802-3 by Monsieur Vauquelin"
Stepping No. 1 on or in central wheels. Figure 1. Figure 2. Various unnumbered elevations, plans and details.
Elevation of arrangement 13 with some of the driving and directive. Elevation includes section of a barrel '65 bands 80 verticals'.
Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report, on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’
Sketch of an apparatus for advancing stereotype frames of the Difference Engine by cranks and backing them by weights. Superseded. Plan, elevation.
Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing full scale elevation of the cornice over the entrance door of the Offices of Goods, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto
Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing section of principal building showing pilasters and columns along with a plan of the same area on first floor, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto
Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of roofs and gutters at Birmingham Station with sectional drawings showing truss over stables and the truss over harness room
Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing section of the base of the principal building's columns, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto
Ground plan and elevation of a building for the machinery used for making block and pullies at Dunsterville Manufactory
Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing elevation of the Offices for Goods from the road, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto .