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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

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"

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

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

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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]’

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

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

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

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

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

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

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Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

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Folder of photos entitled '12 Wembley Snapshots'

Difference Engine index of parts.

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 Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Calculation of the numerical value of a formula

Notation of the Analytical Engine

Notice entitled ‘To the gentlemen, clergy, merchants and other inhabitants of Stockton and the neighbourhood.’

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]

The first drawing of the circular arrangement of the new engine

Plan 27. This was superseded by Drawing 93. Linear arrangement.

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

Receipts from Leonard Raisbeck on behalf of the Sugar House to various individuals

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

240

Share certificate No 1828 for the Highgate Archway Company

385

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

565

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

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Map of the Horsham Petworth and Midhurst Railway

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Long pinions in the position for stepping. Adding wheels and short pinions behind long wheels.

Lifting apparatus by screw. Sheet 9.

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

Side and end elevation of feed motion with shade. Second revision.

Sections of framing and racks. Sheet 6.

Side and end elevation of feed motions. Showing the bands in different colours.