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Letters patent (no. 1471) granted to Joseph Rothery and Andrew Rothery for 'Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for cutting coal, stone and other minerals'

Letters patent (no.522) granted to William Millard for 'Improvements in Jacquard looms'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

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

Locking motions for carriage column.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Temporary staging

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Details of carriage.

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

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

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Receipt of rent for Stanhope Castle

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

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

The Tower Bridge

Temporary staging

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

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

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

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

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

Sketch of driving.

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

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

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'

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

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

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

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

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

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

Letter from Dr William Withering to Miss Rogers

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

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey

Letters relating to South Kensington Museum

Letter from Sir Norman Lockyer, Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science, to an unnamed correspondent

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

Diagrams of building construction of a Gate Lodge