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Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

5 documents

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

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"

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Photograph album entitled: 'Products of the Gutta Percha Company'

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

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

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

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Volume of reports by British science teachers on the 1867 Paris exhibition

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

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

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

General arrangement drawing no 11322

Hoarding and anticipating carriages.

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

Business names and addresses, with some notes on metal alloys

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

Sectional drawing of the engine boiler

3 sheets

Arrangement drawings of no. 136 barque 'Girvan'

175

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

201

Letter from John Dixon discussing steam tests and experiments on the Stockton and Darlington Railway

190

Nursing certificate for Charlotte Wilsdon

495

Ship plan: General arrangement of paddle steamer 'Ranger'

12 items

Folder of photos entitled '12 Wembley Snapshots'

115

Letter from August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Royal College of Chemistry, to W. Crookes Esq.