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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

Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

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'

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.

Temporary staging

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Locking motions for carriage column.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Scribbling Book Volume XII. Drawing Office.

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Receipt of rent for Stanhope Castle

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

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.

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

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'

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

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'