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Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

15

Collection relating to the life and work of Daniel Albone

0.87m (5 boxes)

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

2 volumes

Metropolitan Vickers Production Engineers ledgers

18 items

Collection of Plant Record books for B Laporte Ltd.

5 volumes

Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel

12 items

Volume entitled: "Barton's Ruling Engine Manuscript"

10

Volume entitled: "Some Account of Lewis Paul and his Invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by Rollers and his claim to such Invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt"

185

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

9 items

Journal of Weights, Measures, Weighing and Measuring Equipment submitted for Testing and Fees received by the Trading Standards Officer

305

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

1000

Manuscript entitled: "Grundliche Anleitung zur Chemie Part II Section II"

130

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

330

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

120

Albums documenting the laying of submarine cables (Sierra Leone-Ascension, Durban-Mauritius)

3 volumes

Lourdes-Cresswell Collection of Tramway Photographs

189 Photographs

Collection of documents relating to Arthur John Bohringer, automobile engineer and designer

1 box and 1 sleeve

Set of vellum wove envelopes

1 box

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Glazed case (no glass) containing specimens of submarine cables etc:- viz: (a) two specimens of shore end and two specimens of main cable of each of Atlantic cables, 1858, 1865 and 1866; (b) two specimens of grapnel rope used in recovery of 1865 cable; (c) two specimens of 1865 cable recovered; (d) model of grapnel used in recovery of 1865 cable

Earthenware eye bath

Ophthalmology

1801-1900

Earthenware eyebath, with ornamental moulded stem, English

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

Telecommunications

1880-1920

Mechanical telephone, used for communicating between two places a short distance apart, unknown maker, probably British, 1880-1920

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Optical model of a spectrum with inverted colours, maker unknwon, 1752. Once belonged to Stephen Demainbray. A handwritten inscription on the base reads: 'Prism screen & convex lens/Colours inverted '4''.

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Volume entitled: "Hipparchus of Bithynia. Of the Phenomena of Aratus and Eudoxus. The 3rd Exposition out of Book 3 in 3 Expositions"

215

John Bagley archive of historical records on air racing

8 boxes

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

115

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Parchment, with attached (broken) wax seal in can, housed in a wooden/leather box

'James Burrow's Arithmetick MDCCXXXVIII'

160

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Manuscript notebook with handcoloured sketches and a fold out plan at the back. The book is contained in a box.

The Berner collection relating to cable ships

13 boxes

Photographic material about The Exchange Telegraph Co. Ltd.

260

Albums documenting the laying of submarine cables (German Atlantic Telegraph)

3 volumes

Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

Parchment, with attached wax seal in can

Daybook Ledger of James Stephens, Engineer

210

Collection of albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

15 volumes

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

150

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

165

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

220

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

140

"Catalogue of the costly modern Engineers' Tools, Plant & Machinery"

190

Collection of papers of Professor Carus-Wilson relating to electrical and railway engineering and astronomy

2 boxes

Bound manuscript translation entitled: "The Evolution & Future of Large Sailing Ships" by Professor W. Laas; translated by James Hayes

195

Engraving of beam engine of H. Maudslay & Co., Engineers

195

Scrapbook entitled: "Centenary of Sir Joseph Swan. With Description of Swan's Electric Light, as used at the Residence of Sir Wm. G. Armstrong, Cragside"

13

Photograph album presented to Field Marshall Viscount French of Ypres as a memento of His Lordship's visit to Olympia, Leeds

180

An early 18th century manuscript relating to surveying and land use entitled: "Surveying"

275

Glass slides of balances

Glass slides

Volumes of magazine cuttings relating to buses

19 volumes

Correspondence of Thomas Andrews

3 volumes

The Development of the Lathe by Karl Wittmann

215