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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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

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

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

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

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

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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')"

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Notation of units

Part of the end view of the Difference Engine

Notation of units

Locking motions for carriage column.

Sign apparatus for Plan 28a. Plan, elevation.

Plan and elevation for the calculating part of the Difference Engine. Figure 1. Superseded. Consecutive carriage.

Sketch of an apparatus for advancing stereotype frames of the Difference Engine by cranks and backing them by weights. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

Speculations on the driving and directive for the Difference Engine. Superseded. Arrangements.

Difference Engine wheels for driving the cranks which move the matrix frames. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

Untitled. Plan of locking plates for locking axis circularly and vertically.

Speculations on the driving and directive of the Difference Engine. Superseded. Arrangement.

Plan and elevation of a platform for giving circular motion to axes applied as an experiment to the Difference Engine No. 2. Drawing 163.

Motions of the printing apparatus

Motions of the stereotype frames

Circular motions of the calculating axes

Part of the Planing machine.

Motions of the stereotype frames

Sketch of an apparatus for lifting the axes of the Analytical Engine. Plan, elevation.

Untitled pencil layout, includes mill racks.

Duties of the mill counting apparatus which require the cycle of a(=12) units for Plan 28a. Sheet 2 of 2.

Trains and vertical motions of the wheels and axes ordered by barrel no. 2 of the mill counting apparatus of Plans 28 and 28a for division, as performed in working Notation 290. Sheet 2 of 2.

Trains and vertical motions of the wheels and axes of the table group of Plan 28a for division, as performed in working Notation 290 and for ascertaining if a variable has a + or - sign.

Trains and vertical motions of the wheels and axes of the table group of Plan 28a for multiplication, as performed in working Notation 268 and for stepping up or down.

Centre group. Sheet 3 of 5

Trains and vertical motions of the wheels and axes ordered by barrel no. 1 of the mill counting apparatus of Plans 28 and 28a for multiplication, as performed in the working Notation 268. Sheet 1 of 2.

Notation of periods for the centre group.

Notation of units. Circular motions of the calculating axes. Odd difference warnings and figure wheels.

Notation of periods for mill counting apparatus.