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The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion by John Curr

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

Volume entitled: "Some Account, of the Work's done by Captain John Perry"

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Letter from Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg to Mattw. Boulton Esq.

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

'The aerial candidates...', an aeronautical play

Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

Account book of the firm of Thomas Farmer & Co., Kennington Green

Ground plan of Her Majesty's Dockyard in Plymouth

Ship plan entitled: Disposition of the Frame for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard, River Thames

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, longitudinal section of foundry

Drawing of engine house, cross section

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

Drawing of treenail and coak making lathe

Drawing of forge hammer from Birmingham by Robert Roberts

Drawing of forcing pump proposed to be fixed in the salt water well in His Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth

Ground plan of building of Kings Mills at Portsmouth

Copy sketch of Mr Heppenstall's spinning frame for rope yarn

Section of building over Coal Yard, Metal Mills, Portsmouth

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

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'

Ship plan entitled: Profile Draught for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard

Ship plan entitled: A Draught for Building by Contract by Mr Barnard in the River Thames a Ship to carry 36 Carriage Guns

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Plan of left half of middle group for General Plan 28.

Design for an atmospherical engine steam cylinder with air pump, condenser and winding machinery

Design for rebuilding of Albion Mills fire proof, transverse section

Copy of agreement between Mr Raisbeck and John Reed, Starch Manufacturer to let parts of Sugar House

Copy plan of part of Plymouth Dockyard showing pump houses, drains and dock

Plan of operation and variable card counting apparatus. Suited to Plans 28 and 28a.

Drawing depicting a portable steam engine

Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report, on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’

Plan of a proposed alteration to locomotive engines

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

Long pinions in the position for adding. Adding wheels and short pinions behind long pinions.

Verticals for approximative division. Sheet 2 of 4.

Drawing depicting elevation of the engine and longitudinary section of the engine house for an atmospherical steam engine

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

Drawing of Tender for the Magnet Loco Engine, No. 108 Two end sections showing wheels, axle boxes and brake arrangement, [presumably for new tender-patent drawing]

Plan of the left half to middle group for General Plan 28.

Invoice regarding stationary purchases

Design for rebuilding of Albion Mills fire proof

Elevation and plan of a crane capable of lifting from five to six tons

Ground plan and elevation of a building for the machinery used for making block and pullies at Dunsterville Manufactory