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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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notebook Volume 1

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engines

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

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

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

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]’

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

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

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

Plan of a proposed alteration to locomotive engines

Notation of the Analytical Engine

First sketch of all the parts in plan of the right half to middle group of General Plan 28. Plan, elevation.

Parts of slide for the Planing machine. Plan, elevation

Multiplication. Sheet 1 of 4.

Algebraic addition. Sheet 1 of 2.

Letter from John Rennie, London to George Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

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.

Drawing of Tender for the Magnet Loco Engine, No. 108 Two end sections showing wheels, axle boxes and brake arrangement, [presumably for new tender-patent drawing]

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

Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees