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Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

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

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

5 documents

Drawings of Robert Stephenson's steam engine Rocket by John Dobson Wardale

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

Union Patriotic Envelope No. 2 Cotton Is King!

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

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

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"

A bound volume written in clerk's hand, presented by Henry Minchin Noad to Museum of Economic Geology

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

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'

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"

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

Side elevation of the Rocket locomotive engine

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

1 volume

Recollections of Edward Bury by his widow

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

Essay by Robert Stephenson on the construction of the Rocket locomotive

Side elevation of the Rocket locomotive engine

Side Elevation of the Rocket locomotive engine

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

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

200

Letter from the War Department to Mrs Wilsdon

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

Sectional drawing of the engine boiler

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'

Analytical Engine (appears incomplete).

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

Letter from Thomas MacNay to Henry Pease

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