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Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Brewer's Journal (production record of the Stag Brewery, Wooburn Green, Bucks.)

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

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

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

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

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Drawing entitled 'Sheer Drawing for a Steel Protected Crusier for Colonial Defence to be named'

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 5 no. 50

Notes on castings of copper, steel and other iron alloys made in Sheffield

Detailed notes on experimental steel production and characteristics made at John Brown and Co. Sheffield

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

My Machine 1888 II Plan of driving cams, levers, etc. in initial position.

Half zero anticipating carriage with three plates in each cage.

Scribbling Book Volume XII. Drawing Office.

Receipt of rent for Stanhope Castle

Sketch of mould for adding column collars.

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Details of carriage.

Untitled plan and elevation. Incomplete.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

Plans for figure wheels, area for reducing to neutral position, carriage axes and locking arms.

Locking motions for carriage column.

Plan and elevation of bolts for each axis in the mill and motion for raising platform.

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Sketch of driving.

Whole zero anticipating carriage with one plate in each cage.

Letter from Alfred Jobson to Henry Pease

Plans for the moulds for anticipating carriage.

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Mould for warning pinion.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

Sketch of framing for support cross driving axis and framing axis.

Mould for wheel of eighty teeth. Adding column.

Untitled cardboard model.

'A.Parkes, Iron and other alloys, 1870, antimony, copper, tin, zinc'

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

Arrangement drawings of no. 136 barque 'Girvan'

Two letters from Sir Henry Bessemer to J. C. Bayley

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

Letters relating to South Kensington Museum

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey

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

Documents and plans regarding engines for the Scinde Railway Company