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
Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs
Marshall's Geological Diagrams
Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp
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"
Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"
Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries
Papers relating to the Thames Driftway and Richard Trevithick's involvement in the project
Archibald Guillan's book on mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation
Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road
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
School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset
Lecture Notes on Chemistry
Commonplace book of William Lewin
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
Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'
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'
Plan of the proposed route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by George Stephenson
Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel
Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket
Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping
Manchester Guardian newspaper, first edition. Dated May 5 1821.
Drawing of engine house, cross section
Drawing of engine house, section of boiler seating and stokehole
A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding Trevithick's results from his first trial of the Herland pole steam engine
Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing
Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades
Drawing of treenail and coak making lathe
Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive
Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington
Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing ground floor plan of the principal building, by signed Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto
Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.
Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth
Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing
Letter from George Stephenson to T. Brewin
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]’
Sketch of drilling machine. Details.
An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17
South East view of the Collegiate Church, Manchester
Notebook Volume 1
Sketch of diving apparatus as tried by the inventor at the entrance of the basin in Portsmouth Yard
Notice entitled ‘Canal. Aug. 8, 1818. The very respectable meeting convened at Stockton on the 31st of last month, to consider of the expediency of cutting a canal into the Coal District, appears to have been so unanimous respecting it… but, differing, as I do, in opinion with all who decide for a canal, I venture to submit to them, and to the Public generally, whether it would not be best to reject a canal altogether, and substitute a Rail Road on the most approved construction…’
Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother
Invoice from Peel, Williams and Peel for a steam engine supplied to Messrs Coates and Wright
A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engines