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Certificate - Freedom of the City of Manchester presented to Sir Bernard Lovell

272

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

7 volumes

Bound manuscript entitled: "Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics etc"

165

Papers of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis

18.00 metres (109 boxes and 10 large format items); 2 plan press drawers (1.44 metres per drawer)

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Housed in a more modern box

Notebook of C.H.B. Reynolds entitled: "Science"

185

Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire

Original: • 171 pages (65 of these pages with diagrams), + 3 sheets (different sizes) laid in loosely Digital copy: • 206 TIFF files for digital preservation (9.35 GB) • 206 JPEG files for general use (751.5 MB)

Album of photographs of Renard Road Trains

330

Volume entitled: "The length of all the Mastes and yards of his Ma[jesty's] ships and Pinnaces; A proportion of cables and anchors to furnish them to sea; All their standing roapes; Dimentions of their boates; Breadth and depth of their sayles; their burthen, number of men and ordnance."

155

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

1 item

Meteorological Registers

Manuscript

PhD theses entitled: "Design of Superconducting Machines"

210

Notes on Civil Engineering

220

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

110

Books of signatures of visitors to the works of Sharp, Roberts & Co.

3 volumes

Volume of working drawings of scientific instruments, mainly electrical, by James White et al

245

Volume entitled: "The English Farm wagon"

18

Bestemmelse af afledningen i en lang sporisolation ved hjaelp af emperemeter og voltmeter

3 pages

Collection of Geoffrey C. Berry relating to history of water supply in the London area

85 volumes

Various contracts and agreements relating to London Docks

18 items in one box

Volume entitled: "Die Gipsbrennerei im Kleinen oder Praktische Anweisung, den roh gemahlenen Gips in jeder beliebigen Quantitat ohne Brennofen und Kostspielige Apparate in einer Stunde so zu brennen, das derselbe der Bindekraft des englischen Cements gleich und uberdies noch billiger im Preise, als der auf den gewohnlichem Wege gebrannte Gips, zu stehen kommt"

220

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

130

Material relating to the work of T.J. Biggs on early cars, motorcycles and bicycles

0.38 m [1 box and 1 album], 1 plan press drawer [1.11 m]

Photographic albums relating to Charles Rolls

325

Collection of Engineering Blueprints Relating to Bolton Back O' Th' Bank Power Station

3 bundles containing 81 drawings

Album of photographs, mainly of cyclists, cycling clubs and bicycles

Album of photographs, mainly of cyclists, cycling clubs and bicycles

Collection of textile design drawings and notes by Jacob Dimoldenberg.

4 linear metres

Collection of laboratory notebooks: "Catalogue of Spectra"

4 volumes

Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.

4 items

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

2 notebooks

Manuscript entitled: "Charcoal Burning in the Forest of Dean by Herbert Curwen"

205

Volume entitled: "A brief history of the origin and progress of the royal harbour of Ramsgate"

225

Kompleks kompensator, system Gall. Fabrikat H. Tinsley & Co., London. Betjeningsforskrift og beskrivelse

4 pages and 3 technical drawings

Certificate admitting Samuel Argall to the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Padua

25

Account book of the firm of Thomas Farmer & Co., Kennington Green

205

Archibald Guillan's book on mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation

215

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

2 items

Sviluppo di alcuni corpi Stereometrico Mineralogici secondo i celebri Autori Dufrenoy, Hauy, Mohs, Rose, Neumann

240

Collection of lantern slides and 35mm slides mainly relating to power presses and metal stamping

2 boxes (114 lantern slides and 36 35mm slides)

Survey data for the area of Hodbarrow Mine, Cumberland

Survey data for the area of Hodbarrow Mine, Cumberland

Scripts and recording of the BBC Radio 3 musical entertainment programme ‘Mischief-Making Moon’, presented by Patrick Moore

3 items

Notebook used when instructing in Radio Communication at 151 OCTU

125

Volume entitled: "Nachbildung der ersten Rotations Dampfmaschine mit Kondensation aus dem Jahre 1788 von James Watt by Eugen Loher"

220

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

15

Set of 20 interviews on audio cassettes 'Pioneers of Computing'

20 items

Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

6 volumes

Volume of patents and folded drawings of Joseph Maudslay (two with Joshua Field)

195

Volume entitled: "Electronics Engineering Department - Report of year's work for 1945"

205

Volume entitled; "Note sur les moteurs a petrole pour sous-marins"

10

Lantern slides showing a variety of balances

Glass lantern slides in a wooden box