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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'

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

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

Meteorological Registers

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

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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Commonplace book of William Lewin

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

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

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

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

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

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

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Archive of Simon Goodrich, mechanist to the Navy Board

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

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

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

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

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

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

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

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

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

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

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

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

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

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

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

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

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

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'

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