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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

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"

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'

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

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

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

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

Drawing of engine house, cross section

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

Draft note from the committee

Notice entitled ‘Canal from Stockton by Darlington Westwards’

Letter from Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton, to John Rennie, Stamford Street, Blackfriars, London

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Handwritten copy of Stockton & Darlington Railway Company annual report

Printed fire insurance policy

Printed fire insurance policy

Printed fire insurance document

Copy [bill] London [to] Navy Commissrs./John Rennie, [for] Cast Iron Diving Bell, [pumps and machinery parts etc Reference to the 'Sheerness Diving Bell'. Bears note re the bell/Goodrich, and note from the Navy Office on verso]

Stepping No. 1 on or in central wheels. Figure 1. Figure 2. Various unnumbered elevations, plans and details.

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

Sketch of diving apparatus as tried by the inventor at the entrance of the basin in Portsmouth Yard

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.