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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 (no. 2871) granted to Henry Woodcroft Hammond for 'An Improved Compound Blower'

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

Temporary staging

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

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

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.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

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

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

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

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

Temporary staging

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

The Tower Bridge

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

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

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

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Drawing of 2-4-0 3'6" Gauge Locomotive General Arrangement

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'

2 items

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

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.

365

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

5 sheets

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

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

6 sheets

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

175

Letter from Thomas Spencer Cobbold to E Walford

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

460

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'