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Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

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)

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

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

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

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'

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

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'

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

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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"

Notes on Civil Engineering

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

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

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

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

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"

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

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')"

Difference Engine index of parts.

Index of Difference Engine No. 2

Plan of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/164.

Analytical Engine (appears incomplete).

Rough draft of Universal Machine Tool. Designed and employed for obtaining the different motions.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Carriage with tens warning. Sheet 3.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Plan and elevation of rising platform.

A draft drawing labelled 'Sheet 3', showing card adding axis, mill adding axis, figure wheels, warning bar and lever and tens lifting slide.

General plan and detail of the driving of the calculating part of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/161.

Plan of mill and store. First draft of revised store and mill connected.

End view and side elevation of driving and lifting apparatus.

Rising platforms, advancing plate.

Plan and elevation of bolts and advancing plate.

Lifting apparatus by screw. Sheet 9.

Untitled. Shows plans and elevations of store wheels, mill, mill wheel cages, carriages and framing.

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

Elevations and plans of printing apparatus. Experimental sketches for mill and store plans.