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

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

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

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

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

North Redemore Account Book

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

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

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

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

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

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"

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'

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

Ground plan of Her Majesty's Dockyard in Plymouth

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Cross-written letter from Miss Smith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Gearing et cetera of Sketch dated July 31 1835. Plan, once part of Drawing 22.

Grouping arrangement. Abandoned end April 1835.

Method of grouping for the large machine.

Carriage by vertical chain. Plan, elevation.

Sketches of mill used for arranging operations on the engine of four wheels in each cage from April 1836 - August 1837.

Elevation of arrangement 13 with some of the driving and directive. Elevation includes section of a barrel '65 bands 80 verticals'.

Locking motions for carriage column.

Intended for engraving. Shows six barrels with reducing apparatus.

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

Plan of consecutive mill counting apparatus for General Plan 28. Plan, note.

Sketch of an apparatus for advancing stereotype frames of the Difference Engine by cranks and backing them by weights. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

First sketch of all the parts in plan of the right half to middle group of General Plan 28. Plan, elevation.

Parts of the slide for Planing machine. Plan, elevation.

Anticipating whole and half zero digit counting carriage. Plan, elevation and details.

Elevation of parts of the card counting apparatus for operation and variable cards.

Motions of the printing apparatus