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Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Stephenson family recipe book

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Commonplace book of William Lewin

North Redemore Account Book

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Two manuscripts in French bound in one volume entitled: "Essai sur les fers coules Pour le Roy" and "Memoire sur la fonte et la Moulage des Bombes "

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

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

'The aerial candidates...', an aeronautical play

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Letter from Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg to Mattw. Boulton Esq.

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Mines de Fer nommes Normarken dans la Province Wermelandie en Svede"

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

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

Account book of the firm of Thomas Farmer & Co., Kennington Green

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

Collection of civil and mechanical engineering drawings of Bramah & Robinson

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

Papers relating to the Thames Driftway and Richard Trevithick's involvement in the project

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Collection of letters signed by scientists, physicians and engineers, generally on scientific or professional matters

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Principles of Mechanics by George Adams

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Melksham Turnpike Trust

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion by John Curr

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage