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Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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"

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Invoice from Peel, Williams and Peel for a steam engine supplied to Messrs Coates and Wright

Engraving of 'Lake Thirlmere or Wythburn Water, Cumberland'

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Scribbling Book Volume II

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.

See designs dated 1834 November 27 and 1834 December 29.

Visitors pass

Addition No. 4. Carriage No 6. Elevation and plan.

Pages 77 and 78 of the manuscript section of Robert Stephenson's diary

Difference Engine index of parts.

Plan of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/164.

On putting letters to drawings, in draft.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Adding axis and wheels without framing

Plan of the figure wheels for one method of adding numbers.

Solution of two simultaneous equations

Index to drawings

Notation for the coefficients of the powers of x Computation of the coefficients of a polynomial from those of another divided by a linear term.

Frame of adding wheels

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Section of adding wheels and framing.

A draft drawing labelled 'Sheet 3', showing card adding axis, mill adding axis, figure wheels, warning bar and lever and tens lifting slide.

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

General plan and detail of the driving of the calculating part of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/161.

End view and side elevation of driving and lifting apparatus.

Lifting apparatus by screw. Sheet 9.

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

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