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

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

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

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'

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

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

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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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

Diary of Robert Stephenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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'

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

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"

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Liverpool to Warrington train tickets

Untitled. Draft notes. Sheet two of six.

Aquatinted illustration - Excavation of Olive Mount, 4 Miles from Liverpool

Aquatinted illustration - Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool

Aquatinted illustration - Coaches &c. employed on the Railway

Aquatinted illustration - Railway Office, Liverpool

'View of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway - taken at Newton'

Aquatinted illustration - Taking in water at Parkside

Aquatinted illustration - Railway Office, Liverpool

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Print of the Royal Institution, Manchester

Print of the New Bailey Prison, Lying-In Hospital, Salford

Chetham's Hospital, Manchester

Manchester Town Hall