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

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

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"

The general plan of Mr. Babbage's Great Calculating Engine. Arrangement and rack, details, et cetera.

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Passport

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Lithograph of Lime Street railway station, Liverpool

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

Solution of two simultaneous equations

Engraving of 'Lake Thirlmere or Wythburn Water, Cumberland'

Arrangement and rack of Plan 25

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

Figure 1. Plan, elevation and detail.

Working drawing for Nos 114, 115, 116

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Letter from Timothy Hackworth, Guild Hall Coffee House to Jane Hackworth (nee Golightly), New Shildon

A letter from Brunel to Monsieur D'avannes, commenting on the working conditions, accident and health records of the workforce at the Thames Tunnel

Working Drawing for No 149 (150 deleted)

Carriage and method of setting spiral axes for a machine of 50 cages with two figure wheels in each cage. Plan, elevation, details.

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

Receipts and charges for various accounts and goods plus lists of addresses and of fruit trees planted by A. Parkes

Visitors pass

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

Addition and subtraction. Multiplication by stepping without table (to be done in store). Division by powers of ten (stepping done in store).

Notation of the Analytical Engine

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

Plan of operation and variable card counting apparatus. Suited to Plans 28 and 28a.

Pages 28 and 29 of John Graham's report book 1838-1845

Sketch of central wheel and principal framing. Plan, elevation.

Untitled. [Vertical positions of some of the wheels of Plan 28a. Notation 348 and 331 cycles]. Sheet 12 of 13.

Difference Engine index of parts.

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

Parts of slide for the Planing machine. Plan, elevation

Multiplication, division and addition for verticals. Sheet six of six.

Plan 16. Arrangement, several partial arrangements, numerous notes.

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

Plan and elevation of sundry parts in the upper cages of left half of middle group.

Skeleton of vertical motions for all operations. Right groups. Multiplication and division from 372 Sheet 1. Sheet 1 of 3.

Working Drawing for No 164

Multiplication. Sheet 1 of 4.

Verticals for approximative division. Sheet 2 of 4.

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