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

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

'James Burrow's Arithmetick MDCCXXXVIII'

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

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

[Letter] London [to] Mr Goodrich, Portsea or at Mr Peake's Dockyard, Portsmouth/ Sam[ue]l Rehe. [He has received, for Goodrich, the Society of Arts' premium of £65]

Torn note referring to a payment of £5.0.0

Legal agreement between Thomas Meeke and Katherine Turner

Legal document entitled 'Article and Schedule of Deeds relating to my Dwelling House'

Legal document entitled 'Abstract and Schedule of Deeds relating to T S Raisbeck's Dwelling house being Copyhold'

Legal agreement between Anne Meeke and Thomas Raisbeck

Pages 14 and 15 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

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

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

Letter from John and Jane Cox to John Cox

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

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

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Broadsheet: Some Considerations showing that the Importation of Iron from America will sooner put a stop to the making of Iron in England than to the Importation of Iron from Sweden and Russia

Letterpress handbill entitled: "Proposals for Erecting (By Subscription) an Engine, To be Work't by a Horse which will be Capable to Shave Sixty Men a Minuet, also Oyl, Comb and Powder their Wigs."

Letter from Smart Lethieullier to an unnamed correspondent

Architectural design drawing: A Design of a Stone bridge, adapted to the Stone Piers which are to support Westminster Bridge

The Art of Smelting Copper Ores; To Refine Copper. [Headed: 'Neath. (Ch.Champion)'. Watermarked 1801]

Second Report from the Select Committee upon the Improvement of the Port of London

Architectural design drawing: The Geometrical Elevation of the North Front of Westminster Bridge

Photograph printed onto a large board showing cars in operation around a bend on the Never-Stop Railway

Drawing of 6 Wheel 3000G Water Capacity 7T Fuel Capacity 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

Drawing of 6 Wheel 2470G Water Capacity 260 Cubic Feet Fuel Capacity 3'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

Drawing of 5'5 13/16" Gauge Locomotive

Drawing of 2'6" Gauge Locomotive

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

Cinema advertising poster for "The Doctor in the Nude" and "Mama's Dirty Girls"

Drawing of Mr Thomas Savin 2-4-0 4'5 1/2" Between Wheels 4' 8 1/2" Gauge Locomotive General Arrangement

Drawing of 3'3 3/8" Gauge Locomotive

Drawing of 8 Wheel 1300G Water Capacity 220 Cubic Feet Fuel Capacity 3'3 3/8" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

Drawing of 3'6" Gauge Locomotive

Drawing of 6 Wheel 3000G Water Capacity 7T Fuel Capacity 5'6" Gauge Tender

Drawing of 6 Wheel 3500G Water Capacity 7T Fuel Capacity 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

Copy of the Report made by the Commissioners of the Customs to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury on The Subject of the several Plans referred to them 'for providing sufficient Accommodation for the enreased Trade and Shipping of the Port of London'

Estimate of Engines for Mr Goodridge, London/Messrs B[oulton] & W[att], Soho

Letter from Stephen Hales discussing his ventilators and his proposals for bladder stones