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Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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

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

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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'

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

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

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

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"

Temporary staging

Drawing of cast iron pump with wrought iron hoop for wells

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, longitudinal section of foundry

Sketch of a pair of small shears for cutting the edges of copper sheets used for the sheating of ships

Drawing of part of swing circular saw

Drawing of a musket pike

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, cross section of foundry

Plans of storehouses and wharfs at New Gun Wharf, Portsmouth

Ground plan of building of Kings Mills at Portsmouth

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, plan of beam engine

Drawing of lathe for turning pins

Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole

Drawing of boilers of 56 Horse engine

Drawings of boiler for 56 Horse steam engine at the Metal Mills, Portsmouth

Copy sketch of Mr Heppenstall's spinning frame for rope yarn

Plan of iron mill and copper mill showing hammers, boilers and furnaces in the four buildings

Drawing of engine house, cross section

Arrangement for 56 Horse engine and boiler house, plan

Arrangement for 56 Horse engine and boiler house, elevation of foundations

Sketch of pickling furnace by Mr Beach

Drawing of large shears from metal mills, as first made

Plan of copper and iron mill buildings showing machinery but not including the furnaces

Copy drawing depicting elevation of machinery for rolling copper and pumping water

Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’

Document entitled ‘A subscription for defraying the expense of obtaining information respecting the expediency and advantage of a canal or rail way for the conveyance of merchandise to and from Stockton…’

Manuscript copy of resolution

Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report, on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’

Printed article extracted from the Durham County Advertiser

Printed article extracted from the Durham Chronicle

Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Letter from John Rennie to Leonard Raisbeck

Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Letter from Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton to John Rennie

Letter from John Rennie, London to George Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees