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Paddle-wheel arrangement drawing showing front and side elevations

4 sheets

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

1020

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

120

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

225

Note from Sir Astley Cooper

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of twin screw steel gun and torpedo vessels 'Curlew' and 'Landrail'

245

Advertisement by the Thames Tunnel Company headed: 'Open to the public every day (Sundays excepted) from Seven in the Morning, until Six in the Evening'

185

'New Method of Constructing Wharf Walls without the aid of Coffre Dams' by Robert Sibley

330

'Record of a Meeting' concerning steam ships made by W Laxton

250

Notice signed by J Borton Esq, Committee Secretary, to Dawson Turner Esq.

190

Letter from Professor John Stevens Henslow to Mrs Stovin

175

Letter fragment from Sir John Franklin

205

Publicity brochure entitled: "David Kirkaldy, Testing and Experimenting Works"

300

Engraved diploma awarding honorary membership of the Institution to the Hon. Mrs. Ferguson

635

Drawing of Messrs Shand Mason & Co's Patent Steam Fire Engine

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Royal Oak' and 'Royal Alfred'

225

Letter from John Kidd to D Gilbert

105

Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London

230

Letter from Dr W. H. Wollaston to Charles Macintosh

115

Autograph of James Finlay Weir

190

Letter from M Heathorn to Maudslay

250

Letter from Richard Trevithick to R Edmonds

235

Deed of transfer no 562 for annuity no 512 for £84 in the Waterloo Bridge

250

Letter from Sir Marc Isambard Brunel to J Bandinel

330

Letter from Edmond Leonard Snee, Secretary, Regent's Canal Office to Dawson Turner Esq., Care of Messrs Barclays

110

Catalogue entitled: "No.2. Catalogue of the latest and most approved charts, pilots, books on navigation, naval science, and commerce: originally published by Steel & Co. and now republished and sold, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation by J. W. Norie and Company."

6 pages

Pages from The Kaleidoscope Periodical, "being a Biographical Sketch of that celebrated Aeronaut, [William Wyndham Sadler] and a narrative of the events which led to the melancholy catastrophe of his death"

2 items

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

8 documents

Letters from Robert Stephenson to his parents

130

Letter from Johann Spurzheim

150

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

2 sheets

Drawing of Swedish Difference Engine

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'

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

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

410

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

235

Letter from Sir W C Trevelyan to Professor Buckland

320

Drawing of S. W. Prong Lighthouse

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of frigates 'Warrior' and 'Black Prince'

235

Letter from Sir Edward James Smith to Mrs [?] Woodville

110

Note from Robert Kaye Greville to Miss Tathwell

175

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

130

Note from W. Parry to Nichs. Garny

200

A list compiled by Maudslay, Sons and Field of the steam vessels built in America and a list of the steam vessels built in England with their dimensions, power of the engines, destinations etc. to the year 1823 with some additions since that period.

110

Printed booklet entitled: "A few observations upon naval architecture or construction, for the purpose of proving that the present system of admeasuring British vessels and the duty on tonnage, are injurious to the British Navy and in every way hurtful to the encouragement of ship building for the purposes of navigation and commerce. By a Naval Officer."

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

115

Printed booklet entitled: "Improvements in Naval Architecture"

285

Drawing of construction lines of 32ft Cutter Barge for Admiral Dundas

3 items

Engravings of machinery of Jacob Perkins

4 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Royal Sovereign'