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Documents and plans regarding engines for the Scinde Railway Company

1 volume

Recollections of Edward Bury by his widow

125

Share certificate (unissued) for Clitheroe Gas-Light Company

125

Share certificate No 94512 for the Great Ship Co. Ltd.

235

Certificate of Merit from the Alford Agricultural Labourers' Society ... for the encouragement of deserving labourers and servants.

2 sheets

Engravings entitled: 'Messrs. Telford & Douglass's Design of a Cast Iron Bridge of a Single Arch proposed to be erected across the River Thames from near St. Saviour's Church and in a Line with the Royal Exchange as shewn in their General Plan Plate IX. Span of the Arch 600 feet'

580

Poster: Rules and Regulations for Geo. Wailes & Co.

2 sheets

Plans of No. 145 S.S. 'Glengyle'

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

1010

Street plan entitled: "Metropolitan Street Improvements, General Plan, shewing Improvements proposed by Metropolitan Board of Works"

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of 1200 h.p. iron armour clad frigate 'Hercules'

9 items

Collection of mechanical engineering drawings

4 sheets

Directions for erecting Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers. - Class W.I.F.

3 sheets

Drawings of S.S. 'Trent' and S.S. 'Tiber', numbers 147-149

132

Technical drawing: First Order Lantern and Dioptric Apparatus for the Little Basses Lighthouse, Ceylon: Timber Platform

1020

Volume of drawings: Main Drainage Metropolis - Abbey Mills Pumping Station

180

Letter from P H Gosse to H B Wheatley

365

Lithograph: Archibald D. Dawnay's selection of effective sections of girders

2 sheets

Plans of No. 177 S.S. 'Copeland'

6 sheets

Arrangement drawings of single-screw composite sloops 'Arab' and 'Lily'

5 sheets

Plans of no. 132 ship 'Glenallan'

115

Note from Sir James Clark to the Librarian at the Royal Society

140

Letter from Sir R. I. Murchison to C. Vignoles

2 sheets

Plans of ship no.69, S.S. 'Stella'

210

Deep sea trial of HMS Sirius

3 sheets in folder

Drawings of ship no. 91 'Agamemnon'

5 sheets

Drawings of S.S. 'Minna', No. 99

4 items

Line drawings relating to Weymouth pier

4 sheets

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Redwing', coast guard cruiser

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Falcon'

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

190

Letter from Dr William Withering to Miss Rogers

6 sheets

Arrangement drawings of S.Ss. No. 185 'Branksome Hall', No. 188 'Trentham Hall' and No. 189 'Childwall Hall'

115

Note from John Lindley to the librarian of the Royal Society

4 sheets

French educational sheets relating to aspects of carpentry, mechanical engineering and water wheels and turbines

250

Letter from George Jennings to Captain Fowke R.E.

10 sheets

Engineering drawings of rope-making and associated machinery

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Sapphire'

505

Ordish's patent rigid suspension bridge

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of twin screw steel gun and torpedo vessels 'Curlew' and 'Landrail'

3 images

Photographs sent to 1876 Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus

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

210

Letter from John Penn, Lewisham to Joshua Field

255

Collection of papers relating to early steam cranes and winches made by J. Taylor and Company, Birkenhead

200

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

5 sheets

Drawings of nos. 190, 197 & 201 barques 'Scottish Bard', 'Assel' and 'Doon'

4 items

Photographs of engines of the Orient Steam Navigation Co's. S.S. "Orient"

1 sheet

Calculating and printing notation for the Swedish Difference Engine

2 sheets

Plans of ship no.124, 'P.S. Juno'

180

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey