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'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

A list of the proprietors of the Regent's Canal

Engraved diploma awarding honorary membership of the Institution to John Richard Bernie

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

The Election List of the Royal Society, MDCCCXXIV

Plan of Newhaven

Letter from Sir R I Murchison to Mr Relfe, a bookseller in Cornhill

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

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 proposed line of iron railway from Kelso to Berwick, ink with 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

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

Report by Mr John Rennie, engineer, regarding the proposed railway from Kelso to Berwick, dated 14 Nov. 1809, printed 1824

Paper entitled ‘Locke’s laminated timber arches’, written by ‘WBW 7.8.1921’, recounting how S. B. Worthington was asked by Locke in 1840 to make drawings of a viaduct described by Buddicom, so that the design could be used on the Manchester & Sheffield Railway

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 11 (1893)

Railway Signal Volume 14 (1896)

Railway Signal Volume 13 (1895)

Railway Signal Volume 7 (1889)

Central London Railway, Nottinghill Gate Station

Statement by Commander William Alder Regarding Iron Water Tanks of H.M.S. Amphion

Letter from John Enys to Francis Trevithick Regarding a Bet on Richard Trevithick’s Locomotive Engine

Map of Ireland Civil and Ecclesiastical by The Revd Daniel Augustus Beaufort L.L.D. Member of the Royal Irish Academy, coloured and with cartouche of cherubs, sailing ship and landscape

Statement of Account of Thomas R. Crampton Esq of Leeds & Carlisle Railway to G. Scott