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Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Drawings of Industrial Sites and Machine Tools

Archives relating to Engines used by Thomas Redfern

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

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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'

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

Meteorological Registers

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

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

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

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

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

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Stephenson family recipe book

Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway

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

Melksham Turnpike Trust

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'

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Collection of Personal Papers relating to Thomas William Turner

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

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

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

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

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

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

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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

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

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"