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Carriage axis, head and tail of product. Sheet 13.

Circular mill. Various plans. Sheet 16.

Stereotype frames for Analytical and Difference engines. Plan, end view and elevation. Tracing of BAB A/147.

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

Carriage. Sheet 14.

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

Small Universal Machine.

Small Experimental Machine. Sheet 2.

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

Counting digits, end elevation and printing side elevation.

Selectors for division and multiplication.

Generation of terms of a series by recurrence relations based on quadratic and linear functions

Calculation of the numerical value of a formula

Algebraic notation

Reduction of four simultaneous equations in four variables to three simultaneous equations in three variables

179

The Examiner

8 documents

Letters from Robert Stephenson to his parents

3 volumes

Manuscript notes from a mathematical course

2 items

Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron

185

Letter from Henry Maudslay to an unknown correspondent

225

Letter from Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich to Mrs. Spencer Stanhope, Holkham

3 pages on 1 sheet

Letter from Michael Faraday to Frederick Pollock

130

Engraving of the Patent Steam Carriage of Julius Griffith Esqr, scale 1":4'.

390

Newpaper - St. James's Chronicle and General Evening Post

17 items

Collection of letters from James Watt to Mr John Morley

150

Notice of gas consumption from the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company

203

Copy of letter sent by Dameral (H. Maudslay and Company) to Mr Tatlock

235

Certificate of Merit from the Alford Agricultural Labourers' Society ... for the encouragement of deserving labourers and servants.

250

Sir J. Barton's scheme for preventing forgery of Bank of England notes

2 sheets

Engravings entitled: 'Messrs. Telford & Douglass's Design of a Cast Iron Bridge of a Single Arch proposed to be erected across the River Thames from near St. Saviour's Church and in a Line with the Royal Exchange as shewn in their General Plan Plate IX. Span of the Arch 600 feet'

17 items

Documents relating to the design of William Congreve's hydro-pneumatic locks on the Regent's Canal

340

Draft letter from John Barton to Samuel Willis

580

Poster: Rules and Regulations for Geo. Wailes & Co.

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

225

Letters from Charles Tulley to John Lecky

210

Notice by the Commissioners and Trustees of Newhaven Harbour

2 sheets

Arrangement drawings of 'S.S. Albatross'

1 page

Page from The Kaleidoscope Periodical which includes an article on Charles Green's "late aerial ascent at Cheltenham"

4 sheets

Directions for erecting Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers. - Class W.I.F.

320

Newspaper issue "The Star"

100

Note from Jonathan Stokes to Mrs M. Stovin

1020

Volume of drawings: Main Drainage Metropolis - Abbey Mills Pumping Station

2 sheets

Drawings of gun boring machinery

120

Letterpress notice for the Regent's (or London) Canal

330

Directions for using a machine for making the tangent sight scales for brass ordnance made by H. Maudslay and Co. for the Honourable East India Company

245

Share certificate No. 510 of Brighton Gas Light and Coke Company

125

Manuscript notebook of William Hyde Wollaston relating his work on rhodium and its alloys