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Manchester Guardian newspaper, first edition. Dated May 5 1821.

Monochrome drawing of the Peel & Williams Phoenix Foundry

Monochrome drawing of the Peel & Williams Soho Foundry

Letter from Henry Maudslay to an unknown correspondent

Engraving of the Patent Steam Carriage of Julius Griffith Esqr, scale 1":4'.

Collection of letters from James Watt to Mr John Morley

Notice of gas consumption from the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company

Copy of letter sent by Dameral (H. Maudslay and Company) to Mr Tatlock

Certificate of Merit from the Alford Agricultural Labourers' Society ... for the encouragement of deserving labourers and servants.

Sir J. Barton's scheme for preventing forgery of Bank of England notes

Engravings entitled: 'Messrs. Telford & Douglass's Design of a Cast Iron Bridge of a Single Arch proposed to be erected across the River Thames from near St. Saviour's Church and in a Line with the Royal Exchange as shewn in their General Plan Plate IX. Span of the Arch 600 feet'

Documents relating to the design of William Congreve's hydro-pneumatic locks on the Regent's Canal

Poster: Rules and Regulations for Geo. Wailes & Co.

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

Drawing showing a wind-pump

Drawing showing lock gates

Letters from Charles Tulley to John Lecky

Arrangement drawings of 'S.S. Albatross'

Page from The Kaleidoscope Periodical which includes an article on Charles Green's "late aerial ascent at Cheltenham"

Letters from Henry Harvey to Richard and Jane Trevithick

Directions for erecting Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers. - Class W.I.F.

Newspaper issue "The Star"

Note from Jonathan Stokes to Mrs M. Stovin

Volume of drawings: Main Drainage Metropolis - Abbey Mills Pumping Station

Letter from James Morrison to an unnamed publisher

3 technical drawings of a wind-pump at Mijdrecht

Drawings of gun boring machinery

Directions for using a machine for making the tangent sight scales for brass ordnance made by H. Maudslay and Co. for the Honourable East India Company

Certificate admitting John Harrison as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London

Share certificate No. 510 of Brighton Gas Light and Coke Company

Letter from John Frost to an unnamed correspondent

Letter from Sir H Holland to Mrs H Greg

Documents relating to a reflecting telescope

Letter from Dr George Williams

Letter from Charles James Cockerill and John Cockerill to H Maudslay & Cie

Arrangement drawings of twin screw steel gun and torpedo vessels 'Curlew' and 'Landrail'

'New Method of Constructing Wharf Walls without the aid of Coffre Dams' by Robert Sibley

Way Bill from London to Bath

'Record of a Meeting' concerning steam ships made by W Laxton

Letter from Sir Humphry Davy to Sir J. E. Smith

Observations taken at a small water mill at Hitchin by Joshua Field

Letter from Sir James Edward Smith to an unnamed correspondent

Letter from John Dalton to James Williamson, M.D.

Letter from Richard L Minty of Faversham to Henry Maudslay

Advertising broadsheet for Blackmore and Co.

Certificate of attendance on a dentistry course for J Harrison

Correspondence concerning the Ordnance Survey from Joseph Banks and others

Transfer deed for shares number 4774 and 4775 in the Grand Junction Canal

Share certificate No 1828 for the Highgate Archway Company

2 drawings showing a sluice at Texel