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Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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"

Temporary staging

Drawing of cast iron pump with wrought iron hoop for wells

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

Sketch of a pair of small shears for cutting the edges of copper sheets used for the sheating of ships

Drawing of part of swing circular saw

Drawing of a musket pike

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

Plans of storehouses and wharfs at New Gun Wharf, Portsmouth

Ground plan of building of Kings Mills at Portsmouth

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, plan of beam engine

Drawing of lathe for turning pins

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

Drawing of boilers of 56 Horse engine

Drawings of boiler for 56 Horse steam engine at the Metal Mills, Portsmouth

Copy sketch of Mr Heppenstall's spinning frame for rope yarn

Plan of iron mill and copper mill showing hammers, boilers and furnaces in the four buildings

Drawing of engine house, cross section

Arrangement for 56 Horse engine and boiler house, plan

Arrangement for 56 Horse engine and boiler house, elevation of foundations

Sketch of pickling furnace by Mr Beach

Drawing of large shears from metal mills, as first made

Plan of copper and iron mill buildings showing machinery but not including the furnaces

Copy drawing depicting elevation of machinery for rolling copper and pumping water

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]’

Printed article extracted from the Durham County Advertiser

Printed article extracted from the Durham Chronicle

Handwritten copy of Stockton & Darlington Railway Company annual report

Printed fire insurance policy

Printed fire insurance policy

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]

Stepping No. 1 on or in central wheels. Figure 1. Figure 2. Various unnumbered elevations, plans and details.

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive

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'.

Intended for engraving. Shows six barrels with reducing apparatus.

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

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

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

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.