120 Paper entitled: "Negretti & Zambra's Pocket Spectroscope for observing the Rain-Band: Prof. Piazzi Smyth's illustrated paper describing the instrument & its use for forecasting the approach of rain"
35 pages and 6 drawings Description of Pumping, Flooding, and Drainage Arrangement of cruiser 'Mildura', and associated drawings
3 items Agreements and Contract between Messrs. Siemens Bros. & Co. Limited and The London and Saint Katharine Docks Coy
595 Assignment of Leasehold premises and Goodwill and Stock in trade of chemist and druggist's business at Bournemouth, Hants.
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
Harold Winterbottom's notebook containing recipes, process information and cloth samples. Harold Winterbottom' Notebook
1 item Photograph printed onto a large board showing cars in operation around a bend on the Never-Stop Railway
Maps show location of Jimbour north of Dalby, around 110 miles west of Queensland, Australia; cutting, from The Brisbane Courier of 9 December 1882, bears article about the transit of Venus. These items were acquired, after 1882, presumably by Grover�s descendants; the copy maps are probably not from contemporary maps. Photocopies of parts of maps (2) and press cutting
Manuscript notebook, compiled after Grover's return to England. He had spent seven weeks at Jimbour, Queensland, �engaged on the telescopic survey of the Southern Hemisphere�. 11 pages used. With transcription (4 pages. typescript.) Notes of Australian Life by C Grover.
250mm x 205mm King Edward's School, Birmingham. Grammar School, Five Ways. Interim Prospectus, October, 1882.
205mm x 130mm Printed note informing students of a lecture on "Effects of Pressure on the Boiling and Freezing Points"
15 pages in 1 item. 216mm x 140mm. Prospectus of the Normal School of Science, and Royal School of Mines, South Kensington and Jermyn Street
260mm x 130mm Printed note informing students of new programmes for Technological Cotton Manufacture.
4 pages in 1 item. 113mm x 181mm. Manuscript letter from F Brennan to S. Leigh-Gregson, 4th February 1882, concerning technical education.
4 pages in 1 item. 111mm x 177mm. Manuscript letter from A. J. Briant, 4th February 1882, concerning technical education.
2 pages in 1 item. 225mm x 180mm. Manuscript letter from F.O. Cresswell to Samuel Leigh-Gregson, 5th February 1882.
10 pages in 1 item. 224mm x 145mm Technical instruction--the express object of the South Kensington Museum