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Newspaper issue "The Star"

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

Drawings of gun boring machinery

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 Richard L Minty of Faversham to Henry Maudslay

Share certificate No 1828 for the Highgate Archway Company

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

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

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

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

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

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

Drawing of S. W. Prong Lighthouse

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

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

Patent granted to Peter Cox, civil engineer, of Fairford, Gloucestershire, for 'Improvements upon the Thrashing Machine'

Drawing of construction lines of 32ft Cutter Barge for Admiral Dundas

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Royal Sovereign'

Textbook entitled 'Mechanics'

Prospectus of The London & Paddington Steam-Carriage Company

Price list for P. R. Jackson & Co.

Letter from John Heaviside to G Short

Description of Pumping, Flooding, and Drainage Arrangement of cruiser 'Mildura', and associated drawings

Notice relating to the second reading, in the House of Commons, of the Grand Southern Canal bill

Engineering drawing: International Exhibition 1862; Machinery Department; Chimney for Boiler House

Letter from Mr Goddard to Henry Maudslay

Transit document for Italian Mail Service

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

Proposal by Richard Trevithick to Mr Robert Fox Junior for the use of an engine to bore, cleave and move limestone

Post Office Telegraphs - Diagrams of Telegraph Apparatus and Connections

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

Broadside entitled: "The Dangers and Positions of the Pitmen"

Engineering drawing: Plunging pump as used at the Thames Tunnel

Letter from Robert Bakewell to Knight Spencer at the Surrey Institution

Manuscript note from W Lowry to Doctor Wollaston