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Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

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

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Drawings of the Midland Railway Extension to London (St Pancras)

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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

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

Collection of John Herschel's notebooks

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

Volume entitled: "Some Account of Lewis Paul and his Invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by Rollers and his claim to such Invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt"

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"

Photograph album entitled: 'Products of the Gutta Percha Company'

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

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

Notes on Civil Engineering

Books of signatures of visitors to the works of Sharp, Roberts & Co.

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

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

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

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

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume of c.500 carriage designs

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

Collection of letters to Charles Babbage

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"

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"

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

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

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

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

Volume of patents and folded drawings of Joseph Maudslay (two with Joshua Field)

Brewer's Journal (production record of the Stag Brewery, Wooburn Green, Bucks.)

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

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')"