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

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]

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

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

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'

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

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Certificate from Joseph Warner to Samuel Hilles

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

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

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