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Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

North Redemore Account Book

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

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

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

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

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

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

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

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

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

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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"

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

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

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

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

Lithograph depicting east view of the cast iron bridge under construction over the River Wear at Sunderland

Sketch of a pair of small shears for cutting the edges of copper sheets used for the sheating of ships

Drawing of the dam and setting for the wharf at South Dock Pier in Portsmouth

Drawing of large shears from metal mills, as first made

Plan of iron mill and copper mill showing hammers, boilers and furnaces in the four buildings

Letter from Robert Bill to Messrs Haynes and Douglas

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

Ground plan of building of Kings Mills at Portsmouth

Drawing of aqueduct over the River Rea

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

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

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, plan of beam engine

Arrangement for 56 Horse engine and boiler house, elevation of foundations

Drawing of lathe for turning pins

Drawing of part of swing circular saw

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

Ship plan entitled: Quarter deck and Fore Castle for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

[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]

Statement of accounts between Messrs Trevithick and Co and Samuel Homfray

Sketch of pickling furnace by Mr Beach

Temporary staging

"Notes taken during a course of chemical lectures given at Paris in the Winter of 1802-3 by Monsieur Vauquelin"

Plan of copper and iron mill buildings showing machinery but not including the furnaces

Copy [bill] London [to] Navy Commissrs./John Rennie, [for] Cast Iron Diving Bell, [pumps and machinery parts etc Reference to the 'Sheerness Diving Bell'. Bears note re the bell/Goodrich, and note from the Navy Office on verso]

Design for rebuilding of Albion Mills fire proof

Plans of storehouses and wharfs at New Gun Wharf, Portsmouth

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'