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Letters patent (no. 2871) granted to Henry Woodcroft Hammond for 'An Improved Compound Blower'

Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

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

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

Temporary staging

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Drawing of 2-4-0 3'6" Gauge Locomotive General Arrangement

Sketch of framing for support cross driving axis and framing axis.

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

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

The Tower Bridge

Temporary staging

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

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

Letters patent and specification (no. 3473) to Frederick Henry Smith relating to 'Signal and other lamps'

A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico-Printing

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Certificate of Merit from the Alford Agricultural Labourers' Society ... for the encouragement of deserving labourers and servants.

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'

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

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

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

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

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

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

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

Plans of no. 162 S.S. 'Flintshire'

Publicity brochure entitled: "David Kirkaldy, Testing and Experimenting Works"

Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London

Specification and plans of single screw composite corvette 'Garnet'

Specification and arrangement drawings of single-screw, iron-clad frigate 'Shannon'

Letter from Thomas Spencer Cobbold to E Walford

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

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

Arrangement drawings of frigate 'Raleigh'

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

Specification for Single Screw Composite Gun Vessels to be named 'Arab' and 'Lily'

Description of Pumping, Flooding, and Drainage Arrangement of cruiser 'Mildura', and associated drawings

Letter from Sir W W Gull to Mr Wheatley

Letter from Sir Andrew Ramsay to Foster

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

Post Office Telegraphs - Diagrams of Telegraph Apparatus and Connections

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Decoy'

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"