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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"

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

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

[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]

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

Articles of agreement between John Claxton, Jacob Harrison and Thomas Raisbeck

Torn note referring to a payment of £5.0.0

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

Legal agreement between Anne Meeke and Thomas Raisbeck

185

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

200

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

220

Letter from Robert Newton to Miss Offley

230

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

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

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

4 archive folders

Collection of papers relating to the work of Stephen Hales, mainly on ventilators

185

Certificate from Joseph Warner to Samuel Hilles

4 sheets

Architectural drawings: Military buildings at St. Venant in north-east France

2 pages on 1 sheet

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

12 items

Folder of photos entitled '12 Wembley Snapshots'

215

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."

155

Letter from Smart Lethieullier to an unnamed correspondent

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

3p on 1 leaf

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

166p + plates

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

1265

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

1 item

Drawing of Cape Government Railway 3'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of Rohilkund & Kumaon Railway 3'3 3/8" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of South Eastern and Chatham Railway 6 Wheel 3300G Water Capacity 4.5T Fuel Capacity 4'8 1/2 " Gauge Tender

1 item

Drawing of 6 Wheel 2350G Water Capacity 250 Cubic Feet 3'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

1 item

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

1 item

Drawing of 8 Wheel 300G Water Capacity 170 Cubic Feet 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

1 item

Drawing of 3'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of 4-4-0 4'8 1/2" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

1 item

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

1 item

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of 5'5 13/16" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of 6 Wheel 200G Water Capacity 200 Cubic Feet 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

1 item

Drawing of 2'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of 2'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of South Eastern & Chatham Railway 4'8 1/2" Gauge Locomotive Photocopy

Overall, 760mm x 1016mm

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

1 item

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

Contact sheet and negatives NASH A4 14 USN

Nashville, c. 1971

19p

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'

1p

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

5 issues

Public Affairs Digest - Prepared by the Public Affairs Department for executives closely concerned with Laporte's corporate policies

1 sheet

Description of effect of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake on lakes in the south of England