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Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

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

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

5 documents

Drawings of Robert Stephenson's steam engine Rocket by John Dobson Wardale

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

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"

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Notes on Civil Engineering

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

A bound volume written in clerk's hand, presented by Henry Minchin Noad to Museum of Economic Geology

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

Volume entitled: "Some Account of Lewis Paul and his Invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by Rollers and his claim to such Invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt"

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

158 daguerreotypes in original cabinet, 1 box containing Ellis's photography notes, 1 box containing copy negatives, 1 box containing conservation materials

The Ellis Collection of Daguerreotypes of Italy

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

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

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

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

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

Diary of Alfred Kitching

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

Side elevation of the Rocket locomotive engine

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Social diary of Charles Babbage for the year 1844

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

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

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

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'

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