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Poster: Rules and Regulations for Geo. Wailes & Co.

Plans of No. 145 S.S. 'Glengyle'

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

Hon. C. S. Rolls sketch for car engine

Photograph of the first motor car built in the UK driven by an internal combustion engine, built in 1895 by Roots and Venables

Street plan entitled: "Metropolitan Street Improvements, General Plan, shewing Improvements proposed by Metropolitan Board of Works"

Glass plate negatives of astronomical instrument making

Arrangement drawings of gunboat 'Redbreast'

Arrangement drawings of S.S. 'Glengyle' and S.S. 'Glenshiel'

Arrangement drawings et al. of the gunboat 'Rifleman'

Directions for erecting Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers. - Class W.I.F.

Letter from Sir Kenelm Edward Digby to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London

Drawings of S.S. 'Trent' and S.S. 'Tiber', numbers 147-149

Technical drawing: First Order Lantern and Dioptric Apparatus for the Little Basses Lighthouse, Ceylon: Timber Platform

Autograph of J A Fleming

Plans of ship no. 108 S.S. 'Chairna'

Letter from P H Gosse to H B Wheatley

Lithograph: Archibald D. Dawnay's selection of effective sections of girders

Plans of No. 177 S.S. 'Copeland'

Arrangement drawings of single-screw composite sloops 'Arab' and 'Lily'

Drawing of Clerk's Patent Gas Engine

Note from Sir James Clark to the Librarian at the Royal Society

Plans of no. 249 S.S. 'Lee Sang'

Draft letter from William Whewell to W T Brande?

Photographs of various centrifugal pumping engines made by Tangyes Ltd, Birmingham, for specific named shipbuilding companies

Letter from Lewis Wright to John Barton

Trade Catalogue Gold & Silver Plant, by Geo. Heaton Daglish C.E. & M.E., and as manufactured by Daglish & Co., St. Helen's Engine, Boiler, Bridge Works & Foundry, Lancashire

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Redwing', coast guard cruiser

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Falcon'

Agreement between Messrs. Siemens Brothers and Co. Limited and The Ryde Pier Company

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Active'

Drawings showing Pearl class cruisers

Letter from Dr William Withering to Miss Rogers

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Emerald'

Arrangement drawings of S.Ss. No. 185 'Branksome Hall', No. 188 'Trentham Hall' and No. 189 'Childwall Hall'

Telegraph from William Thomson to Maclean, Physical Laboratory, University of Glasgow

Boys' Gravity Measurement and radio-micrometer

Papers relating to removal of shoals at Plymouth Harbour

Letter from Hiram Stevens Maxim to Sir Joseph Wilson Swan

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Sapphire'

Technical drawing: Sheer Draught for Steel Paddle Tug

Drawings of Horse Slaughterer's Cart

Photographs of engines and air compressors, built by Maudslay, Sons & Field, London for HMS Blake, Royal Arthur and Sirius and Italian ship Re Umberto

Ship stability calculations relating to 'Hainaut' and 'Pembroke Castle'

Arrangement drawings of twin screw steel gun and torpedo vessels 'Curlew' and 'Landrail'

Photographs sent to 1876 Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus

An anti-vaccination leaflet titled, 'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion'.

Collection of papers relating to early steam cranes and winches made by J. Taylor and Company, Birkenhead

Publicity poster: "The New Hudson Silver Arrow; a real sporting sports; light, lively and good looking"

Drawings of nos. 190, 197 & 201 barques 'Scottish Bard', 'Assel' and 'Doon'