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

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

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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'

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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Commonplace book of William Lewin

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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

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

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

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

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"

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

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

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"

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

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

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his parents

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his parents

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Mr. Brewin

Letter from George Stephenson to T. Brewin

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Cross-written letter from Miss Smith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Pages 16 and 17 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 10 and 11 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 8 and 9 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 4 and 5 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 6 and 7 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 20 and 21 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 18 and 19 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 26 and 27 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1