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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"

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

Meteorological Registers

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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Commonplace book of William Lewin

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

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

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

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

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"

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

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"

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

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 Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

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'

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Temporary staging

Untitled. [Operations for the Analytical Engine]

A letter from Brunel to Lord Duke regarding test borings next to the River Thames

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding arrangement of boiler tubes in Trevithick's Herland Mine engine

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding theoretical treatment of ex-pansive working of a non- condensing high-pressure steam-engine

A letter from Brunel to Mr Tucker regarding his recently patented tinfoil

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding calculations associated with steam engines

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engine velocity

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engines

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

Drawing of cast iron pump with wrought iron hoop for wells

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

Design for slipping wheel and joint to prevent breaking of machinery

The rolling-beam of Plan no.1 with a design for providing it with motion

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

Elevations, section and plan of a moveable steam engine