A bound volume written in clerk's hand, presented by Henry Minchin Noad to Museum of Economic Geology
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"
Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports
The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale
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"
4 sheets French educational sheets relating to aspects of carpentry, mechanical engineering and water wheels and turbines
Scale 2ch. : 1". To the south of workings shown are 'Brancepeth pit workings'. Verso bore label 'Oakenshaw Brockwell 1859?' Plan of the workings of Oakenshaw Colliery belonging to Messrs. Strakers & Love
A collection of glass lantern slides capturing the development of flight from an early set of images from the 1909 aviation meeting held at Reims, France through to images of aircraft from Imperial Airways and flying boats in the late Thirties. The History of Aircraft and Flying
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
Perigal was an eccentric who had strongly-held unorthodox views regarding the rotation of the Moon. He used a geometric chuck, the most sophisticated piece of machinery available to ornamental turners, to create complex curves, and was the first to classify the results mathematically. This material shows the relatively simple results of rolling circles around other circles to produce epicycloids. Perigal ordered his results carefully. Three sheets are of bicircloids, one is of centric bicircloids, one is of orthoidal bicircloids and one is of cuspidate bicircloids. Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics
The report is addressed to Lord Stanley of Alderley as President of the Board of Trade. The report includes the following sections: The Telescope, Achromatic Microscopes, Stereoscopes, Kaleidoscopes, Photographic Cameras, Optical Apparatus for Physical Researches, Instruments for Scientific Instruction. Draft Report on 'Certain Optical and Other Instruments in the Paris Exhibition' by Sir David Brewster
275 Printed illustrated advertising leaflet relating to the weighing machines of Pooley & Son, as shown at the Exhibition of the Works of All Nations, Dublin, 1853.