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

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"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

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

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

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

Diary of Alfred Kitching

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

355

Social diary of Charles Babbage for the year 1844

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

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"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

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

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

Notes and observations on ores and compounds

175

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

A letter from Brunel regarding his drawings

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Letter from Thomas Christy to Henry Pease

12 items

Folder of photos entitled '12 Wembley Snapshots'

Difference Engine index of parts.

A letter from Brunel recommending "practical men"

A letter from Brunel to G Dollond saying the entrance to the tunnel will be at Wapping

Pages 67 and 68 of Alfred Kitching's diary

Pages 53 and 54 of Alfred Kitching's diary

Pages 305 and 306 of Alfred Kitching's diary

Index of Difference Engine No. 2.

Notation of the Analytical Engine

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]

Vertical positions of the wheels of Plan 28. Sheet 13 of 23.

History.

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

2 items

Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron

110

Letter from George Hudson to an unnamed correspondent

115

Letter from William Parsons to Warburton

1025

Maps of land and ports in Mexico, being surveys re Tehuantepec Railroad

158

Portrait photograph of William Henry Perkin

210

Letter from Thomas Brown, 1st Engineer of HMS Bee, to J Field

565

Engineering drawing: International Exhibition 1862; Machinery Department; Chimney for Boiler House

185

Letter from Thomas Joyce to Margaret Stovin[?]