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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

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'

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

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"

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

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

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

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

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

Drawing of engine house, cross section

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

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding Trevithick's results from his first trial of the Herland pole steam engine

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

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

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

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

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

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Collection of documents relating to the Portsmouth-to-Admiralty semaphore line designed by Sir Home Riggs Popham

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'

Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

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

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

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Notebook Volume 1

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

A letter from Brunel to Mr Tucker regarding the selling of tinfoil