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Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Early prints of cotton mills and cotton processes

Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine

Stephenson family recipe book

Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

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

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

Archive of Simon Goodrich, mechanist to the Navy Board

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

5 documents

Drawings of Robert Stephenson's steam engine Rocket by John Dobson Wardale

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Ground plan of Her Majesty's Dockyard in Plymouth

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel

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

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

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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

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"

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Archibald Guillan's book on mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation

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

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

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

Plan of the proposed route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by George Stephenson

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Meteorological Registers

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works