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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

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

A handwritten letter from Harry Evershed to 'Home' in response to received letters

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

Three editions of 'Berliner Beitung'

London and North Western Railway goods invoice

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

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

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

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

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

Draft letter from William Whewell to W T Brande?

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

Arrangement drawings of twin screw torpedo cruiser 'Scout'

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

Arrangement drawings of twin screw protected corvette 'Mersey'

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

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

Letter from Frederick Gustavus Burnaby to Mr. Tupper

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

Letter from E R Lankester to an unnamed correspondent

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

Arrangement drawings of composite gunboat 'Cockchafer'

Letter from Sir John Wolfe Barry to Dr. Turner

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Hyacinth'

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Frolic'

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

A contract between the East and West India Dock Company and Messrs Hunter & English for the construction of a central ladder dredger, dated 10th May 1883. There is also a specification for the dredger and instructions that it should be supplied for the dock company's extension at Tilbury. In addition to this there is a drawing giving a general arrangement of the vessel. There is a handwritten note on the front stating that this referrers to the dredger Tilbury.

Contract between Messrs Hunter & English and The East and West India Dock Company for a central ladder dredger

1 Folder Containing 11 Drawings and 1 Manuscript

Other Docks, Wharves and Drainage Schemes

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

Nominal File: Patent Office Museum - 1882 to 1883

'The Southern Cross. Notes of a voyage to, and Sojourn in, Australia. With the results of Observatories of the Southern Celestial Objects' by Cuthbert E Peek.

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.

King Edward's School, Birmingham. Grammar School, Five Ways. Interim Prospectus, October, 1882.

11 pages in 1 item. 212mm x 138mm.

List of students rewarded at the national competition, 1882.

4 pages in 1 item. 113mm x 181mm.

Manuscript letter from F Brennan to S. Leigh-Gregson, 4th February 1882, concerning technical education.

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