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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'

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

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

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'

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.

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)

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

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

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Letter from Thomas Spencer Cobbold to E Walford

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'