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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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

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

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 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 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

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"

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

Temporary staging

A letter from Brunel to Lord Duke regarding test borings next to the River Thames

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]’

Notice entitled ‘Canal. The projected canal from the Tees to the coal district near Auckland, having now become a popular question, permit me to make some observations on this subject’

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]’

Small printed card showing ‘Distances of the Collieries, by the Railway, from Stockton [and] from Darlington’

Notice entitled ‘Stockton and Auckland Canal. The committee of the subscribers to this undertaking… received from Mr. Leather, the engineer, a variety of information relative to a survey, which he has just finished, which most satisfactorily obviates every important objection that has been urged against the plan…’

Notice entitled ‘Canal Meeting. Stockton, July 9th, 1818. In consequence of a printed address from Mr. C. Tennant, relative to the proposed Canal between the Western parts of the county and this port, a numerous and most respectable meeting of gentlemen, belonging to this place and its neighbourhood, was held at the Town-Hall to-day.’

Notice entitled ‘Stockton and Auckland intended Canal.’

Printed extract from the Durham County Advertiser

Printed article extracted from the Durham County Advertiser

Printed article extracted from the Durham Chronicle

Printed memo completed in manuscript and addressed to Leonard Raisbeck

Draft resignation letter

Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Notice entitled ‘Stockland & Auckland Canal. The subscribers to this undertaking are particularly requested to attend a meeting… for the purpose of receiving the accounts…’

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