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Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Volume entitled: "Some Account of Lewis Paul and his Invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by Rollers and his claim to such Invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt"

Notes on Civil Engineering

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

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"

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

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

Analytical Engine (appears incomplete).

Rough draft of Universal Machine Tool. Designed and employed for obtaining the different motions.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Carriage with tens warning. Sheet 3.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Plan of mill and store. First draft of revised store and mill connected.

Lifting apparatus by screw. Sheet 9.

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

Digit counting apparatus spiral axis. Sheet 7.

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

Sections of framing and racks. Sheet 6.

Elevation arrangements for division. Sheet 20

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

Printing and card punching. Printing part of the Analytical Engine.

Reverse motion for cross planing.

Digit counting apparatus units and tens. Sheet 26.

Side and end view of framing showing bearings for racks at Figure 1. Sheet 10.

Plan of store with double mill and printing. Superseded.

Back and end elevation of cross slide.

Front and side elevation of feed apparatus. Showing worm and slotting motion.

Small Universal Machine. Sheet 6.

Side and end elevations of feed and driving apparatus

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

End and side elevation of Large Universal Machine.

Elevation and section of cross slide.

Plan, elevation and section of cross slide.

Selecting apparatus. Sheet 12.

Plan of Large Universal Machine.

Elevation of the mill.

Draft of the mill. Sheet 29. Superseded by Sheet 24.