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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.

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

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

South East view of the Collegiate Church, Manchester

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

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

Notebook Volume 1

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

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

Manuscript copy of resolution

The first drawing of the circular arrangement of the new engine

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

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

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.

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

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

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

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]’

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

Sketches of the printing and stereotyping apparatus of the Analytical and Difference Engines. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

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

Parts of the slide for Planing machine. Plan, elevation.

Parts of slide for the Planing machine. Plan, elevation

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

Multiplication. Sheet 1 of 4.

Difference Engine index of parts.

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engine velocity

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