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Prospectus of The London & Paddington Steam-Carriage Company

Price list for P. R. Jackson & Co.

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

'Mental Calculators', a geometrical problem by George Bidder

Mr Chandler's specification for interior work of a steam packet, London Engineer

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

Letter from Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester, to an unnamed correspondent

Letter from Henry Maudslay to an unknown correspondent

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

Letter from J Damarel to Messrs Henry Maudslay and Co., Engineers

Post Office Telegraphs - Diagrams of Telegraph Apparatus and Connections

Letter from Sir John Barton to "Commissioners appointed to consider the means of preventing the Forgeries of the Notes of the Bank of England"

Correspondence by W Turnbull

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

Collection of advertisements for horse drawn transport services

H. Maudslay and Company specification for wind operated pumps

Plan of Newhaven

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

Advertisement: Wm. Annesley's New System of Naval Architecture 1819

Documents relating to an article on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in the Edinburgh Review, October 1832

The Champion of Politics, Literature and the Arts

An x-ray of Lord Rayleigh's hand

Alfred Swaine Taylor's admission card as a pupil to Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals

Photograph printed onto a large board showing cars in operation around a bend on the Never-Stop Railway

'Reid’s Monthly Timetable and Advertiser of The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway'

'Journal of the London Association of Engineers' includes article ‘The Story of the Locomotive’ by H. Parsons

Design for heating timber by steam and bending it to the forms required in ship building

Design for the hand pumps for the Apollo yacht to be placed under the lower deck

Drawing of pump chamber for the Apollo yacht

Plan of quarter deck and forecastle of the Apollo frigate

Plan of upper deck of the Apollo frigate

Drawing of "Planet" type with grasshopper springs on inside bearings

Working Drawing of a Locomotive Engine for the Stanhope Railway, No 37

Tender Frames

Working Drawing No 323

Mohawk and Hudson locomotive, plan of frame

Drawing of No 58 (or the 4th Patent) locomotive, for the Leicester and Swannington Railway

Plan of route of railways from Edinburgh and Leith to Mid- and East Lothian, by Robert Stevenson, engineer, ink and colour

Report by Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, on railway lines from Midlothian to Edinburgh and Leith, with plans, sections and detailing possible extensions to Dalkeith, Musselburgh, Haddington and Dunbar

Newspaper cutting from L. M. H. S. Magazine Jul. 1826 (written in ink) entitled “Some Early Railway Tickets”, brief history of the origins of the railway ticket

Several sections of the ground surveyed for Edinburgh railways, ink and colour

Plan ‘no 2’ of Manchester Ship Canal from Runcorn to Warburton. Ink and colour

Railway Signal Volume 8 (1890)

Railway Signal Volume 17 (1899)

Railway Signal Volume 15 (1897)

Railway Signal Volume 14 (1896)

Railway Signal Volume 11 (1893)

Railway Signal Volume 13 (1895)