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Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Mr. W. Boulton

450

A Plan of the Navigable Canals from Birmingham, to Oxford

3 sheets

French technical drawings relating to Newcomen atmospheric engine erected at Fresnes, near Conde in northern France

275

French technical drawing: Elevation d'une cheminee dans laquelle on a pratique un poele propre a bruler de la houille

415

Plan d'un Marais Salant avec la description des parties qui le composent et la maniere de faire le sel

220

Letter from Robert Newton to Miss Offley

185

Letter from Erasmus Darwin to an unnamed patient

100

Booklet entitled: "The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon"

1130

Map: Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear also Blyth, Bedlington and Hartley; with the Country 11 Miles round Newcastle

2 sheets

Maps relating to Rochdale Canal

275

French technical drawing: Dessein d'un Phare

340

French technical drawing of a pantograph

205

Letter from John and Jane Cox to John Cox

230

Letter from James Watt of Broseley to Mr. Boulton

230

An account of an horizontal top or whirling speculum, invented by Mr Serson

195

French technical drawing: Desseing d'une Bouee

3 sheets

French technical drawings of parts of the workings of mills

2 sheets

French technical drawings of a Newcomen atmospheric engine erected at the York Buildings waterworks on the Thames

7 sheets

French technical drawings relating to mill workings

1630

Map entitled: 'A Plan of the River Thames from Boulter's Lock to Mortlake, Surveyed by order of the City of London in 1770, by James Brindley Engineer'

230

Certificate admitting Robert Yeff, joiner and instrument maker to the Freedom of the City of Bristol

590

French technical drawing of a mechanism to raise water from a well

1500

Map entitled: 'A Plan shewing the line of the proposed navigation from Bishops Stortford, through part of Essex, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, to the Brandon River, on the borders of Norfolk ... '

365

Letter from Charles Stanhope to G Nuttall

560

Agreement for erecting a steam engine at Ravenhead near Prescot in County of Lancaster

255

Letter from James Watt to Mr John Morley

6 sheets

French technical drawings of sluice gates

230

Letter from John Dalton to Peter Crosthwaite

280

Euclid's Elements

600

Deed respecting a Steam Engine to be erected at Ketley Iron Works

105

Prescription for Master Forester Fench

1080

Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear also Blyth, Bedlington and Hartley; with the Country 11 Miles round Newcastle

135

Pamphlet entitled: "Receipt for preparing and compounding the principle medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward"

435

Broadsheet: Sir William Petty's Plan for a system of instruction relative to the business of the Marine Department, in the same words as the original; but with the articles transposed, and marginal titles, supplemental titles, and remarks added

170

Letter from William Toplis to an acquaintance of Lord Bathurst's

175

Share certificate for the Wilts & Berks Canal

115

Note from Nevil Maskelyne to Mr Wingrave

190

Letter from John Flamsteed to Reverend John Smith

220

French technical drawing of a 'niveau a Lunette'

5 sheets

Maps relating to canal system from River Severn to River Thames

220

Manuscript book entitled 'Dr. William Hunter Lectures MSS'

315

Description d'un nouveau genouil de Planchette

2 sheets

Description de la Lunette Achromatique de Poche, avec le Piedestal, comme representee dans la Planche

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

200

'An Explanation of the Pendulum Bucket Engine, invented & executed in a Working Model'

245

Sketches of scientific apparatus in the George III Collection

185

Volume entitled: "A Course of Experimental Philosophy by S Triboudet Demainbray in the year 1755"

215

Volume relating to navigational and related astronomical problems

Volume I (pp.1-469) covers lectures 1 to mid-45; volume II (pp.470-911) covers lectures mid-45 to 86.

Volumes with manuscript transcripts of Joseph Black's chemistry lectures at Edinburgh University

181

The Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligence, or, News both from City and Countrey.