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Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Brewer's Journal (production record of the Stag Brewery, Wooburn Green, Bucks.)

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Letters patent (no. 1471) granted to Joseph Rothery and Andrew Rothery for 'Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for cutting coal, stone and other minerals'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Letters patent (no.522) granted to William Millard for 'Improvements in Jacquard looms'

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

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

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

3 sheets

Arrangement drawings of no. 136 barque 'Girvan'

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

12 items

Folder of photos entitled '12 Wembley Snapshots'

180

Two letters from Sir Henry Bessemer to J. C. Bayley

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

2 items

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

Report by Mr Lavington E. Fletcher, Chief Engineer to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on the steam boiler explosion that occurred on the 3rd November 1869 on board HM Gunboat "Thistle".

"Thistle" Boiler Explosion

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Details of carriage.

Half zero anticipating carriage with three plates in each cage.

Whole zero anticipating carriage with one plate in each cage.

Untitled plan and elevation. Incomplete.

Plan and elevation of bolts for each axis in the mill and motion for raising platform.

My Machine 1888 II Plan of driving cams, levers, etc. in initial position.

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Temporary staging

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Sketch of mould for adding column collars.

Locking motions for carriage column.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Letter from Alfred Jobson to Henry Pease

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

Drawing entitled 'Sheer Drawing for a Steel Protected Crusier for Colonial Defence to be named'

Plans for the moulds for anticipating carriage.

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Mould for wheel of eighty teeth. Adding column.

Mould for warning pinion.

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

Plans for figure wheels, area for reducing to neutral position, carriage axes and locking arms.

The Tower Bridge

Temporary staging

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 5 no. 50

'A.Parkes, Iron and other alloys, 1870, antimony, copper, tin, zinc'

Detailed notes on experimental steel production and characteristics made at John Brown and Co. Sheffield

Notes on castings of copper, steel and other iron alloys made in Sheffield

Sketch of driving.

Untitled cardboard model.