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

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

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"

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'

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')"

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

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

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"

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

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

Drawing of Egyptian Railway Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

175

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

190

Nursing certificate for Charlotte Wilsdon

12 items

Folder of photos entitled '12 Wembley Snapshots'

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Edward Watkins Regarding Richard Trevithick and John Gerrard

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]

2 items

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

1025

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

158

Portrait photograph of William Henry Perkin

120

John Dickinson's silk-thread envelope

565

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

The contract is for 'Machinery and Apparatus .. for the application of Hydraulic Power to the Cranage in or about the Saint Katharine Docks'.

Contract of between The Saint Katharine Dock Company, and William George Armstrong, George Cruddas and Richard Lambert of the Elswick Engine Works, Newcastle upon Tyne

180

Letter from James Sowerby to Mrs Pratten

500

Drawing of escapements for clocks

1 item

Map of the Horsham Petworth and Midhurst Railway

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Lifting apparatus by screw. Sheet 9.

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

Side and end elevation of feed motion with shade. Second revision.

Sections of framing and racks. Sheet 6.

Side and end elevation of feed motions. Showing the bands in different colours.

Reverse motion for cross planing.

Back and end elevation of cross slide.

Side and end elevations of feed and driving apparatus

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.