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Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

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

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico-Printing

A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico-Printing

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

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

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

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

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Scribbling Book Volume XII. Drawing Office.

Scribbling Book Volume XII. Drawing Office.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Details of carriage.

Details of carriage.

Receipt of rent for Stanhope Castle

Receipt of rent for Stanhope Castle

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

Locking motions for carriage column.

Locking motions for carriage column.

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

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

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

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

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

Sketch of driving.

Sketch of driving.

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

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

550.00

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

180.00

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

255.00

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

180.00

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey

Despite Darwin's description pencilled on the back of /1, the projection is not onto a tetrahedron. /2 bears title 'Map of the World projected gnomonically on the faces of a regular eikosihedron'. Originally items 3218 and 3219 in the catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the S. Kensington Museum, 1876.

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

1/Letter from Sir Edward Frankland (1825-1899) of 14 Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park to Colonel Scott Requests 'two separate orders to see the new Laboratories ... for Dr. Bence Jones the Secretary & Mr Harwood the Architect to the Royal Institution'. Annotated on back by Scott asking a Mr Dillon to reply. Frankland was professor of chemistry at the Royal School of Mines, having been professor at the Royal Institution; Scott was Director of Works at the South Kensington Museum. 2/Response to above. Letter from Chas. Rowe Dillon, Works Department, Council on Education, Kensington Museum to Dr E Frankland, 14 Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park responding to Frankland's letter of 29 Apr and confirming he has instructions to show Dr. Bence Jones and Mr Harwood over the works.

Letters relating to South Kensington Museum

185.00

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

Scale 1/4" : 1'. Comprises plan of upper deck; plan of poop and forecastle; plan of lower deck; plan of hold (and sections); profile. Each bears numerous signatures.

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

185.00

Letter from Richard Proctor

180.00

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

Scale 1":4'. Plans of hold (and sections), upper deck, profile, bridge over battery and forecastle, lower deck and main deck. Each bears numerous signatures.

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Iron Duke'

Scale 1/4":1'

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

Prepared for the Science and Art Department, King's College, London.

Diagrams of building construction of a Gate Lodge

140.00

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

Scale 1":4'. Roll comprises specification (12p); plans of poop and forecastle; upper deck; main deck; platforms of hold and sections; profile of inboard works.

Specification and arrangement drawings of single-screw, iron-clad frigate 'Shannon'

365.00

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