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'
Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine
Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"
Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"
Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works
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'
Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway
Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire
Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"
The volumes contain daily meteorological observations, vol. 1 covering from 1 Apr 1803 to 20 Mar 1816, vol. 2 from 21 Mar 1816 to 31 Aug 1827. Meteorological Registers
245 Advertisement by the Thames Tunnel Company headed: 'Open to the public every day (Sundays excepted) from Seven in the Morning, until Six in the Evening'
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