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Engravings entitled: 'Messrs. Telford & Douglass's Design of a Cast Iron Bridge of a Single Arch proposed to be erected across the River Thames from near St. Saviour's Church and in a Line with the Royal Exchange as shewn in their General Plan Plate IX. Span of the Arch 600 feet'

Poster: Rules and Regulations for Geo. Wailes & Co.

A Plan of the Navigable Canals from Birmingham, to Oxford

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

Drawing showing a wind-pump

Drawing showing lock gates

Letter from Erasmus Darwin to an unnamed patient

Arrangement drawings of 'S.S. Albatross'

Page from The Kaleidoscope Periodical which includes an article on Charles Green's "late aerial ascent at Cheltenham"

Directions for erecting Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers. - Class W.I.F.

Booklet entitled: "The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon"

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

Volume of drawings: Main Drainage Metropolis - Abbey Mills Pumping Station

Letter from James Morrison to an unnamed publisher

3 technical drawings of a wind-pump at Mijdrecht

Maps relating to Rochdale Canal

Certificate admitting John Harrison as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London

Map entitled: 'A Plan shewing the line of the proposed navigation from Bishops Stortford, through part of Essex, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, to the Brandon River, on the borders of Norfolk ... '

'Record of a Meeting' concerning steam ships made by W Laxton

Letter from Charles Stanhope to G Nuttall

Letter from Sir Humphry Davy to Sir J. E. Smith

Agreement for erecting a steam engine at Ravenhead near Prescot in County of Lancaster

Observations taken at a small water mill at Hitchin by Joshua Field

Letter from James Watt to Mr John Morley

Certificate of attendance on a dentistry course for J Harrison

Letter from John Dalton to Peter Crosthwaite

Deed respecting a Steam Engine to be erected at Ketley Iron Works

Transfer deed for shares number 4774 and 4775 in the Grand Junction Canal

Prescription for Master Forester Fench

2 drawings showing a sluice at Texel

Publicity brochure entitled: "David Kirkaldy, Testing and Experimenting Works"

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

Letter from G B Greenough to unknown correspondent

Drawing of Messrs Shand Mason & Co's Patent Steam Fire Engine

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Royal Oak' and 'Royal Alfred'

Letter from John Dalton to John Fell

Share certificate No 2340 for the Somersetshire Coal Canal Lock Fund

Map of England and Wales with part of Scotland shewing distinctly the Navigable Canals & Rivers Now Completed or under Execution

Letter from Sir Marc Isambard Brunel to Brigadier General Bentham, Plymouth Dock

Letter from William Toplis to an acquaintance of Lord Bathurst's

Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London

Drawing of Swedish Difference Engine

Share certificate for the Wilts & Berks Canal

Autograph of James Finlay Weir

Volume entitled: "An Act for making Wet Docks, Basons, Cuts, and other Works, for the greater Accommodation and Security of Shipping, Commerce, and Revenue within the Port of London [and] An Act for warehousing Goods within the Limits of certain Docks"

Note from Nevil Maskelyne to Mr Wingrave

Maps relating to canal system from River Severn to River Thames

Plan and specification of a circular saw for cutting off copper bolts

Specification respecting ships and vessels by Charles Earl Stanhope, 1753-1829.

Pages from The Kaleidoscope Periodical, "being a Biographical Sketch of that celebrated Aeronaut, [William Wyndham Sadler] and a narrative of the events which led to the melancholy catastrophe of his death"