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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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

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"

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

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Drawing of engine house, cross section

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

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

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

Drawing of treenail and coak making lathe

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

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]’

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

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

South East view of the Collegiate Church, Manchester

Sketch of diving apparatus as tried by the inventor at the entrance of the basin in Portsmouth Yard

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engines

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

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Notebook Volume 1

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Manuscript copy of resolution

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

The first drawing of the circular arrangement of the new engine

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

Plan of mill, table wheels and carriage. Sheet 31.

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

Letter from Samuel Homfray to Messrs Haynes and Douglas

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]’

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

Notation of the Analytical Engine

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

Plan of operation and variable card counting apparatus. Suited to Plans 28 and 28a.

Untitled. [Vertical positions of some of the wheels of Plan 28a. Notation 348 and 331 cycles]. Sheet 12 of 13.

Skeleton of vertical motions for all operations. Right groups. Multiplication and division from 372 Sheet 1. Sheet 1 of 3.

Plan of a proposed alteration to locomotive engines

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