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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'

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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'

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

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

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

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

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey

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

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"

Engineering drawing: Coffe Machinery

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Iron Duke'

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

Letter from Richard Proctor

The History of Aircraft and Flying

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

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

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

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

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

Letter from Edwin Lankester to an unnamed correspondent