Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'
Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites
Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'
Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar
Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"
Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway
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"
330 Description of a Maudslay, Sons and Field sliding-rudder fitted to the Honourable East India Company's steam vessel Pluto
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