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Newspaper issue "The Star"

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

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

Letter from Sir H Holland to Mrs H Greg

Documents relating to a reflecting telescope

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

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

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

Share certificate No 1828 for the Highgate Archway Company

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

2 drawings showing a sluice at Texel

Publicity brochure entitled: "David Kirkaldy, Testing and Experimenting Works"

Letter from G B Greenough to unknown correspondent

Drawing of Messrs Shand Mason & Co's Patent Steam Fire Engine

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Royal Oak' and 'Royal Alfred'

Letter from William Simons to Henry Maudslay

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

Documents relating to sulphuric acid industry

Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London

Drawing of Swedish Difference Engine

Autograph of James Finlay Weir

Specification respecting ships and vessels by Charles Earl Stanhope, 1753-1829.

Pages from The Kaleidoscope Periodical, "being a Biographical Sketch of that celebrated Aeronaut, [William Wyndham Sadler] and a narrative of the events which led to the melancholy catastrophe of his death"

Entry of Grant of Annuity made by the Company of Proprietors of the Strand Bridge

Letter from George Cartwright to John Cartwright

Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron

The Examiner

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

Letter from Sir George Steuart Mackenzie to an unnamed correspondent

Drawing showing a screw pump

Table of dimensions of tubes required for Woolwich Dockyard

Arrangement drawings of frigates 'Warrior' and 'Black Prince'

Drawing of S. W. Prong Lighthouse

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

5 drawings showing a wind-pump

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

Letter from Sir R. I. Murchison to Chalmer Esq.

Printed booklet entitled: "Improvements in Naval Architecture"

Extracts from correspondence relating to the installation of a steam engine at the Royal Foundry, Woolwich Arsenal

Letter from William Millars, Rl. Carriage Office, to Mr Maudslay