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

215

Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'

3 documents

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

0.5 linear metres

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

165

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

330

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

10

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

20

Commonplace book of William Lewin

125

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

150

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

120

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

180

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

265

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

325

Papers relating to the Thames Driftway and Richard Trevithick's involvement in the project

6 parts

Collection of documents relating to the Portsmouth-to-Admiralty semaphore line designed by Sir Home Riggs Popham

3 items

Letter from Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester, to an unnamed correspondent

110

Certificate admitting John Harrison as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London

355

Extracts from correspondence relating to the installation of a steam engine at the Royal Foundry, Woolwich Arsenal

2 items

Drawing of furnace for melting iron

405

Letter from Sir John Barton to "Commissioners appointed to consider the means of preventing the Forgeries of the Notes of the Bank of England"

205

Advertising broadsheet for Blackmore and Co.

210

Letter from Robert Bakewell to Knight Spencer at the Surrey Institution

230

Letter from William Wollaston to Saml. Parkes

225

Letter from Joshua Dixon to Reverend T Greenwood

190

Letter from George Cartwright to John Cartwright

240

Notes by William Hyde Wollaston on the experimental technique of wire drawing

200

Drawings of gun boring machinery

2 sheets

Table of dimensions of tubes required for Woolwich Dockyard

190

Collection of letters from James Watt to Mr John Morley

17 items

An economical plan for examining the merits of the Velocipede, or Swift Walker, and a chance of obtaining one for five shillings

280

Transit document for Italian Mail Service

435

Collection of letters by James Cobb describing tours taken to north Wales, Scotland, Paris, north west France and Belgium

2 volumes

Correspondence concerning the Ordnance Survey from Joseph Banks and others

320

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

255

Letter from Sir H Holland to Mrs H Greg

185

Letter from Sir George Steuart Mackenzie to an unnamed correspondent

190

Correspondence between Thomas Tatlock and H. Maudslay and Company

8 items

Letter from John Heaviside to G Short

180

Certificate of attendance on a dentistry course for J Harrison

210

Mr Chandler's specification for interior work of a steam packet, London Engineer

325

Patent granted to Peter Cox, civil engineer, of Fairford, Gloucestershire, for 'Improvements upon the Thrashing Machine'

610

Copy of letter sent by Dameral (H. Maudslay and Company) to Mr Tatlock

203

Letter from Saxe Bannister to John Mendham, Messrs. Maudslay and Field, Lambeth

230

Collection of advertisements for horse drawn transport services

4 sheets

Documents relating to sulphuric acid industry

9 documents

Specification respecting ships and vessels by Charles Earl Stanhope, 1753-1829.

145

Copy of an agreement between Richard Trevithick and William Sims the younger

335

Drawing of engine house, cross section

255

Letter from Henry Maudslay to an unknown correspondent

185

H. Maudslay and Company specification for wind operated pumps

320