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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'

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Temporary staging

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

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

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Locking motions for carriage column.

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

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

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

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

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

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

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

2 items

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

235

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

2 sheets

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'

580

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

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

1010

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

4 sheets

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

5 sheets

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

460

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

180

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey

5 sheets

Plans of no. 162 S.S. 'Flintshire'

2 items

Letters relating to South Kensington Museum

115

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

205

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

650

Engineering drawing: Coffe Machinery

6 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Iron Duke'

105

Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London

185

Letter from Richard Proctor

A collection of glass lantern slides capturing the development of flight from an early set of images from the 1909 aviation meeting held at Reims, France through to images of aircraft from Imperial Airways and flying boats in the late Thirties.

The History of Aircraft and Flying

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

410

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

35 pages and 6 drawings

Description of Pumping, Flooding, and Drainage Arrangement of cruiser 'Mildura', and associated drawings

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

270

Letter from G B Donati R. Osservatorio di Firenze to Secretary of the Royal Society, London

180

Letter from Edwin Lankester to an unnamed correspondent