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

Principles of Mechanics by George Adams

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"

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

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

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty

Instructions to the illustrator of 'A description of an apparatus for explaining the principles of mechanicks made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams'

Torn note referring to a payment of £5.0.0

Petition of John Stapylton Raisbeck

Legal document granting John Stapylton Raisbeck authority to take oaths in various counties in Durham, York, Kingston Upon Hull and Newcastle Upon Tyne

Copies of acquittances

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

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

[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]

Pamphlet entitled ‘The Report of Mess. Brindley and Whitworth, engineers, concerning the practicability and expence [sic] of making a navigable canal, from Stockton by Darlington to Winston in the county of Durham'

Legal agreement between Anne Meeke and Thomas Raisbeck

Legal document granting John Stapylton Raisbeck authority to take oaths in various counties in County Durham, York, Kingston upon Hull and Cumbria

Act for better regulation of attorneys and solicitors

Deed of admittance

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

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

Letter from Robert Newton to Miss Offley

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

Letter from Joseph Priestley to Emanuel da Costa

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

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

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

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

Certificate from Joseph Warner to Samuel Hilles

Letter from Smart Lethieullier to an unnamed correspondent

Boulton and Fothergill letter books

French technical drawings of surveying instrument

Letter from John Dalton to his cousin George Bewley

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

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 Josiah Wedgwood to Matthew Boulton

Instructions to the illustrator of 'A description of the pneumatic apparatus made by George Adams in Fleet Street, London, 1761'

"A description of the Pneumatick Apparatus Made for his Majesty King George III Anno Domini 1761 By George Adams in Fleet Street, London"

Receipted bill, in sum of £5-15-6, for 'A Martin new Universal Compound Microscope ...' bought by Joseph Priestley from Benjamin Martin

The St James's Chronicle; or, The British Evening-Post

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

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

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

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

Drawing of 2'6" Gauge Locomotive

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

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