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Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine

Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Ground plan of Her Majesty's Dockyard in Plymouth

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Archibald Guillan's book on mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

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

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Papers relating to the Thames Driftway and Richard Trevithick's involvement in the project

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

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

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

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

Drawing of engine house, cross section

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

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

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Mines de Fer nommes Normarken dans la Province Wermelandie en Svede"

North Redemore Account Book

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

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

Collection of letters signed by scientists, physicians and engineers, generally on scientific or professional matters

Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to coal trade and coastal shipping in north-east England

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

Drawing of treenail and coak making lathe

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

Drawing of forge hammer from Birmingham by Robert Roberts

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

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

Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

Ground plan of building of Kings Mills at Portsmouth

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

1130

Map: Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear also Blyth, Bedlington and Hartley; with the Country 11 Miles round Newcastle

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Invoice from Peel, Williams and Peel for a steam engine supplied to Messrs Coates and Wright

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

Section of building over Coal Yard, Metal Mills, Portsmouth

230

Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Mr. W. Boulton

230

Letter from James Watt of Broseley to Mr. Boulton

230

Letter from John Dalton to Peter Crosthwaite

1860

Mr. Wilson's Design for a Cast Iron Bridge over the Thames, instead of the Present London Bridge