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Engineering drawing: Gates Rock and Ore Breaker

2 items

Photographs of vehicles produced by the London General Omnibus Company

4 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Frolic'

5 items

Patent documents relating to gas burners and gas taps of Henry Cox

1045

Specifications and drawings relating to improvements to the foreshore at Criccieth

5 items

Advertising literature relating to water filters etc. made by Frederick Lipscombe & Co

4 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Decoy'

180

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

595

Assignment of Leasehold premises and Goodwill and Stock in trade of chemist and druggist's business at Bournemouth, Hants.

1305

Working drawing of model of Italian ore-crushing mill

575

Advertising poster: 'Patent steam-pipe drawplate and peel ovens'

14 sheets

Specification and arrangement drawings of twin-screw, iron-clad frigate 'Superb' renamed 'Alexandra'

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of no. 300 S.S. 'Lakonia'

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Flamingo'

680

Enlarged photograph of spark section

Relates to Sayers's patent no. 111 of 1881 'Improved apparatus to be attached to ships to prevent them sinking'.

Drawing of 'air log' device for preventing ships from sinking

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Diamond'

180

Letter from George Bentham to W Wheatley

12 items

Manuscript papers, unpublished and published, of German physicist Heinrich Hertz

3 lists (5 items)

Lists of ships with engines built by Maudslay Sons and Field

265

Drawing books of RMP

1 volume

Drawings and notes relating to a proposed coach for the Prince of Wales, Great Northern Railway

205

Log book of the 'S. Y. Anthracite' 1880

220

Trade catalogue of Steuart & Co., carriage builders, Calcutta

Comprises: Vol. I Consecutive Loops 1...10; vol.II Consecutive Loops 11...50; vol. III Circulating Loops 1...4; vol. IV Circulating Loops 5...7; vol.V Circulating Loops 7...11; vol.VI Circulating Loops 11...28; vol.VII Circulating Loops 29...75. Vol.I contains index to all seven volumes.

Volumes of drawings entitled: "Helical Epicycloids"

Comprises desing drawing of yachts Jullanar (26), Gulnare (16), and others (46). In 1885 Bentall launched 'Jullanar' which he had designed and had built at Heybridge Basin. All its metal fittings were made in his Heybridge Works and she was fitted out in nearby Wivenhoe. Its keel set a fashion that was in vogue for many years.

Collection of yacht design drawings by E.H. Bentall

145

Compendium volume entitled 'The Thorneycroft's Patents & Inventions, with Tours, Flights, Trips, Sports, Pastimes and biographical sketch'

14 items

Collection of engineering plans for Tower Bridge from Wolfe Barry's office

2 boxes

Patent documents relating to Frederick Henry Smith and Ernest Harmer Smith

10 item

Collection of patents and agreements relating to cable insulation developed by Edwin Truman and its use by George Crosland Taylor

0.06 linear metres

Pamphlets and Plan of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition

1 file containing 16 items

Newspaper Cuttings Concerning the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

3 drawers

Collection of Engineering Drawings from John Musgrave & Co

5 volumes

Ledgers Entitled Clearing, Gassing and Reeling

5 items

Correspondence relating to electrical plant installation

6 items

Engineering drawings of Gresham & Craven's Vacuum Automatic Brake

0.56 linear metres

Glass slides associated with a lantern projector made by Aubrey Franks.

0.25 linear metres

Cartes de Visite

2 items

Pamphlets relating to the Thirlmere Water Scheme

4 items

Collection of Leaflets for the "Eclipse" Gas Governor

559 boxes (824 rolls), 458 folders

Drawings

304

An x-ray of a joint bone

2 volumes

Books of early radiographs

203

An x-ray of Lord Rayleigh's hand

253

An x-ray of Lord Salisbury's hand

204

A. J. Balfour's hand x-ray

204

Lord Kelvin's hand x-ray

Printed line drawings showing general arrangement and detailed working for James Nasmyths steam hammer and pile driver.

James Nasmyth's Patented Steam Hammer and Pile Driver

1 item

Drawing of 0-4-0 Engine General Arrangement