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Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

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

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

A miniature portrait of A. E. Anthony

Temporary staging

Agreements between Ernest Harmer Smith and Frederick Henry Smith

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

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

A handwritten letter from Harry Evershed to 'Mother'

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

Three editions of 'Berliner Beitung'

London and North Western Railway goods invoice

13 sheets

Plans of no. 230 S.S. 'Kirby Hall'

10 items

Specification and plans of single screw gun boats 'Albacore', 'Mistletoe' and 'Watchful'

235

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

580

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

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

4 sheets

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

205

Letter from Lewis Wright to John Barton

5 sheets

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

2 sheets

Drawings of S.S. 'St. George' and S.S. 'St. Andrew'

105

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

205

Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter to Dr. A. Wilson

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

2 sheets

Liverpool Corporation Waterworks drawings of Vyrnwy Supply - Elevation of Masonry Embankment

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

410

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

180

Letter from Frederick Gustavus Burnaby to Mr. Tupper

7 sheets

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

175

Letter from E R Lankester to an unnamed correspondent

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

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

1 volume

Post Office Telegraphs - Diagrams of Telegraph Apparatus and Connections

140

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

680

Enlarged photograph of spark section

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

5 sheets

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

1 Folder Containing 11 Drawings and 1 Manuscript

Other Docks, Wharves and Drainage Schemes

1 item

Specification relating to insulating telegraph conductors

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

1045

Drawing of watertight compartments, watertight doors, sluice valves of ship 'Nelson'

1 item

Licence to use patents

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.