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Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

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"

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Temporary staging

A letter from Brunel to Lord Duke regarding test borings next to the River Thames

Printed article extracted from the Durham County Advertiser

Printed article extracted from the Durham Chronicle

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Handwritten copy of Stockton & Darlington Railway Company annual report

Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck

Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

Pages 16 and 17 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 20 and 21 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 18 and 19 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 26 and 27 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Stepping No. 1 on or in central wheels. Figure 1. Figure 2. Various unnumbered elevations, plans and details.

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

Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Gearing et cetera of Sketch dated July 31 1835. Plan, once part of Drawing 22.

Grouping arrangement. Abandoned end April 1835.

Method of grouping for the large machine.

Carriage by vertical chain. Plan, elevation.

Sketches of mill used for arranging operations on the engine of four wheels in each cage from April 1836 - August 1837.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Elevation of arrangement 13 with some of the driving and directive. Elevation includes section of a barrel '65 bands 80 verticals'.

Intended for engraving. Shows six barrels with reducing apparatus.

Plan of the left half to middle group for General Plan 28.

Plan of consecutive mill counting apparatus for General Plan 28. Plan, note.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Sketch of an apparatus for advancing stereotype frames of the Difference Engine by cranks and backing them by weights. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

Long pinions in the position for stepping. Adding wheels and short pinions behind long wheels.

First sketch of all the parts in plan of the right half to middle group of General Plan 28. Plan, elevation.

Lifting apparatus by screw. Sheet 9.

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

Side and end elevation of feed motion with shade. Second revision.

Parts of the slide for Planing machine. Plan, elevation.

Sections of framing and racks. Sheet 6.

Anticipating whole and half zero digit counting carriage. Plan, elevation and details.

Elevation of parts of the card counting apparatus for operation and variable cards.

Side and end elevation of feed motions. Showing the bands in different colours.

Reverse motion for cross planing.

Back and end elevation of cross slide.

Motions of the printing apparatus