Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway
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"
A collection of glass lantern slides capturing the development of flight from an early set of images from the 1909 aviation meeting held at Reims, France through to images of aircraft from Imperial Airways and flying boats in the late Thirties. The History of Aircraft and Flying
1 page Page from The Kaleidoscope Periodical which includes an article on Charles Green's "late aerial ascent at Cheltenham"
280 An economical plan for examining the merits of the Velocipede, or Swift Walker, and a chance of obtaining one for five shillings
105 Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London
235 Certificate of Merit from the Alford Agricultural Labourers' Society ... for the encouragement of deserving labourers and servants.
2 sheets Engravings entitled: 'Messrs. Telford & Douglass's Design of a Cast Iron Bridge of a Single Arch proposed to be erected across the River Thames from near St. Saviour's Church and in a Line with the Royal Exchange as shewn in their General Plan Plate IX. Span of the Arch 600 feet'
2 items Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron