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

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

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

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

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

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)

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

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

Visitors pass

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

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

Verticals for approximative division. Sheet 2 of 4.

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

Motions of the stereotype frames

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

Sketches of the printing and stereotyping apparatus of the Analytical and Difference Engines. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

Plan of picking-up sectors and a booklet of related notes

Plan 27. This was superseded by Drawing 93. Linear arrangement.

Parts of the slide for the Planing machine.

Drawing of Tender for the Magnet Loco Engine, No. 108 Two end sections showing wheels, axle boxes and brake arrangement, [presumably for new tender-patent drawing]

Plan of mill, table wheels and carriage. Sheet 31.

Platform raising apparatus. Sheet 33.

Untitled. A model of six cages was made from this drawing. Incomplete.

Used while discussing the selecting apparatus.

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