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

Principles of Mechanics by George Adams

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

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

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'

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'

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

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

Deed of admittance

Petition of John Stapylton Raisbeck

Act for better regulation of attorneys and solicitors

Torn note referring to a payment of £5.0.0

[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]

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

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

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

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

Letter from John Dalton to his cousin George Bewley

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

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

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Matthew Boulton

Letter from Nevil Maskelyne to Peter Dolland at St Paul's Churchyard

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

Letter from Joseph Priestley to Emanuel da Costa

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

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

Drawing of 2'6" Gauge Locomotive

Drawing of 6 Wheel 3000G 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'

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

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

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

Notes and Sketch Relating to the Cugnot Engine and the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers

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

Drawing of 3'6" Gauge Locomotive

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

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

Thoughts Moral and Divine: The Fourth Edition with Improvements

Drawing of 5'5 13/16" Gauge Locomotive

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

Drawing of 3'3 3/8" Gauge Locomotive

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