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Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Stephenson family recipe book

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

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

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

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

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

Collection of civil and mechanical engineering drawings of Bramah & Robinson

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

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'

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

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

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

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Melksham Turnpike Trust

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

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

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

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

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'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

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

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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')"

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

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

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

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

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

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

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

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"

Lecture Notes on Chemistry