Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping
Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish
Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp
Commonplace book of William Lewin
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'
Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors
Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs
Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick
Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway
Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.
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; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"
Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"
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
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
Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'
Diary of Robert Stephenson
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
Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation
A letter from Brunel to Lord Duke regarding test borings next to the River Thames
Notation of units, multiplication
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.’
