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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"

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

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

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

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

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

Solution of two simultaneous equations

Figure 1. Plan, elevation and detail.

Working drawing for Nos 114, 115, 116

Arrangement and rack of Plan 25

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

Engraving of 'Lake Thirlmere or Wythburn Water, Cumberland'

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)

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

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

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

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

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

Sketch elevation of the driving and directive of the Analytical Engine.

Visitors pass

Working Drawing for Nos 273, 274

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

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

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

Plan 27. Linear arrangement with letter notations.

Multiplication. Sheet 1 of 3.

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

Difference Engine index of parts.

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

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

Notation of the Analytical Engine

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

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.

Verticals of the counting apparatus barrel number 1. Sheet 8 of 9.

Motions of the stereotype frames

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.