A bound volume written in clerk's hand, presented by Henry Minchin Noad to Museum of Economic Geology
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')"
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"
Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports
The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale
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"
4 sheets French educational sheets relating to aspects of carpentry, mechanical engineering and water wheels and turbines
Scale 2ch. : 1". To the south of workings shown are 'Brancepeth pit workings'. Verso bore label 'Oakenshaw Brockwell 1859?' Plan of the workings of Oakenshaw Colliery belonging to Messrs. Strakers & Love
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
This collection consists of the internal records of the museums that constitute the Science Museum Group and documents their corporate functions and activities. Science Museum Group Corporate Archive
Perigal was an eccentric who had strongly-held unorthodox views regarding the rotation of the Moon. He used a geometric chuck, the most sophisticated piece of machinery available to ornamental turners, to create complex curves, and was the first to classify the results mathematically. This material shows the relatively simple results of rolling circles around other circles to produce epicycloids. Perigal ordered his results carefully. Three sheets are of bicircloids, one is of centric bicircloids, one is of orthoidal bicircloids and one is of cuspidate bicircloids. Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics