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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: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

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

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

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

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

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

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

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

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

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

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

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

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

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

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

Volume entitled: "Some Account, of the Work's done by Captain John Perry"

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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"

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to coal trade and coastal shipping in north-east England

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

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Diary of Robert Stephenson

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