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Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

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

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

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

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')"

This collection consists of the internal records of the museums that constitute the Science Museum Group and documents their corporate functions and activities.

Science Museum Group Corporate Archive

Notes and observations on ores and compounds

Letter from Hardwick to unknown regarding screening of counter in Great Hall Euston due to cold drafts experienced by staff

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles

Cross-written letter from Prudence Hackworth, Albion House to Thomas Greener

Envelope from an unknown sender in Darlington to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Soho Cottage, Shildon

Cross-written letter from Timothy Hackworth (Jn) to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Cross-written letter and envelope from Hannah Smith, Albion House, Penrith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter and envelope from Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Albion House, Penrith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter from Eliza Greenhalgh and Cecile Margin, Vilvorde, Belgium to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Cross-written letter from Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Penrith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Fragment of cross-written letter and envelope from Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth) to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Cross-written letter and envelope from Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Albion House, Penrith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter from Eliza Greenhalgh and Cecile Margin, Vilvorde to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Cross-written letter from Miss Smith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter and envelope from Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Penrith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Pages 68 and 69 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Part of the end view of the Difference Engine

Locking motions for carriage column.

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

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

Untitled pencil layout, includes mill racks.

Number of parts and working points.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing general ground of the station showing its location in the surrounding area, annotations regarding 'Estimates for ... alterations and additions...', signed by Robert B. Dochray

Temporary staging

Untitled. [Operations for the Analytical Engine]

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

Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, Volume II

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.