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

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

North Redemore Account Book

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

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

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"

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

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

Letter from Robert Bill to Messrs Haynes and Douglas

[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

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]

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

Letter from Samuel Homfray to Messrs Haynes and Douglas

Letter from Messrs Blagrave and Walter to Messrs Haynes and Douglas and a copy of a letter Samuel Homfray to Messrs Blagrave and Walter

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

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

Side and end elevation of feed motion with shade. Second revision.

Sections of framing and racks. Sheet 6.

Side and end elevation of feed motions. Showing the bands in different colours.

Reverse motion for cross planing.

Back and end elevation of cross slide.

Side and end elevations of feed and driving apparatus

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

Elevation and section of cross slide.

Plan, elevation and section of cross slide.

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

Untitled plan and elevation. Incomplete.

Plan of mill, table wheels and carriage. Sheet 31.

Platform raising apparatus. Sheet 33.

Drawing of the parts controlling the positioning and punching of the decimal point

Reduction of three simultaneous equations in three variables to two simultaneous equations in two variables

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Sheet 1. Successive reduction of three simultaneous equations in three variables to find the solution for one variable.

Sheet 2. Successive reduction of five simultaneous equations in five variables to find the solution for one variable.

Temporary staging

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

Notes written in French from two lectures

Drawing of cast iron pump with wrought iron hoop for wells

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

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

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

Plan for the engine house and boiler for an atmospherical steam engine