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210

Letter from John Penn, Lewisham to Joshua Field

200

Invoice for a 'Patent Dry Gas Meter Manufactory' to The Boston Gas Light Company

1 sheet

Calculating and printing notation for the Swedish Difference Engine

16 sheets

Copy drawings of details for engines, paddles and screw propeller of 'S.S. Great Eastern'

115

Letter from Sir Joseph Whitworth to George Wallis

175

Four bound issues of 'The Leisure Hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation'

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.

205

Publicity brochure entitled: "David Kirkaldy, Testing and Experimenting Works"

3 sheets

Plans of no. 63 S.S. 'Henriette'

130

Note by Alexander von Humboldt

635

Drawing of Messrs Shand Mason & Co's Patent Steam Fire Engine

135

Pamphlet: 'Observations on the Structure of Nerve-Fibres'

205

Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter to Edward Wedlake Brayley Esq.

1305

Drawing of A. Shanks's Patent Manifold Drilling Machine

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Royal Oak' and 'Royal Alfred'

16 pages

Telegraph supplement: Harper's Weekly

320

Report by A Campbell on the copper ore mines of Darjeeling

105

Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London

2 sheets

Drawings of Godrevy Island Lighthouse

2 sheets

Drawing of Swedish Difference Engine

22 pages

Tender for making & repairing Roads etc. in Westminster District

115

Draft letter from Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke to G. Wallis

190

Nursing certificate for Charlotte Wilsdon

155

Autograph of Johann Franz Encke

190

Letter from Captain Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock to Mr C Reed

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

2 items

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

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

410

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

120

John Dickinson's silk-thread envelope

136

Diagram showing the variation in insulation under different temperatures of the (D) Cable at Morden Wharf (Greenwich)

255

Comparative Scales, Compiled from Tables of eminent authorities published by Henry Baker

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of frigates 'Warrior' and 'Black Prince'

320

Drawing of S. W. Prong Lighthouse

115

Note from Sir James South to White

200

Letter from the War Department to Mrs Wilsdon

155

Letter from Thomas Southwood Smith to an unnamed correspondent

250

Letter from Thomas Henry Maudslay to Joshua Field

180

Letter from Michael Faraday to an unnamed correspondent

175

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

115

Letter fragment from Sir David Brewster to Hamilton Gray

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

260

Letter from C W Lundy of the The Atlantic Telegraph Company

5 items

Drawings relating to the construction of Weymouth Pier

180

Letter from William Whewell to J W Parker

200

Share certificate for the The Mediterranean Electric Telegraph

285

Drawing of construction lines of 32ft Cutter Barge for Admiral Dundas

135

Letter from William Whewell to George Macilwain

4 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Royal Sovereign'