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Volume entitled: "Apothecary's Memorandum Book"

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Account book of the firm of Thomas Farmer & Co., Kennington Green

Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

Volume entritled: "Elements of Plane Geometry and also The Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids"

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Mines de Fer nommes Normarken dans la Province Wermelandie en Svede"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Volume entitled: "The Description and Use of a Terrestrial Planetarium, including the Orbits of Mercury and Venus commonly called an Orrery"

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

North Redemore Account Book

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

Two manuscripts in French bound in one volume entitled: "Essai sur les fers coules Pour le Roy" and "Memoire sur la fonte et la Moulage des Bombes "

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Letter from Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg to Mattw. Boulton Esq.

Collection of letters signed by scientists, physicians and engineers, generally on scientific or professional matters

Principles of Mechanics by George Adams

'The aerial candidates...', an aeronautical play

Typescript copy of 'Anson's list of H.M. Royal Navy 1747-1750'

Volume entitled: "Some Account, of the Work's done by Captain John Perry"

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

Volume entitled: "Illumni sui Charissimi Josephi Ball calculorum Rationem experimens Libellus Quemq"

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

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

Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to coal trade and coastal shipping in north-east England

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

Journal entitled: "Coal Journal book or Journall Scituation of the Coals of Bogie begun at Sir John Wemyss's death 19th January 1719"

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

'James Burrow's Arithmetick MDCCXXXVIII'

Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion by John Curr

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"

A Description of the Pneumatic Apparatus made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty

Temporary staging

"Notes taken during a course of chemical lectures given at Paris in the Winter of 1802-3 by Monsieur Vauquelin"

Notes written in French from two lectures

Drawing of forcing pump proposed to be fixed in the salt water well in His Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth

Drawing of cast iron pump with wrought iron hoop for wells

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, longitudinal section of foundry

Drawing depicting elevation of the engine and longitudinary section of the engine house for an atmospherical steam engine

Plan for the engine house and boiler for an atmospherical steam engine

Design for slipping wheel and joint to prevent breaking of machinery

Design for an atmospherical engine steam cylinder with air pump, condenser and winding machinery

Plan for an atmospherical engine steam cylinder with air pump, condenser and winding machinery

Elevation and plan of a crane capable of lifting from five to six tons

The rolling-beam of Plan no.1 with a design for providing it with motion

Ground plan and elevation of a building for the machinery used for making block and pullies at Dunsterville Manufactory