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

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

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"

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Plan of the proposed route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by George Stephenson

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

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"

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Manchester Guardian newspaper, first edition. Dated May 5 1821.

Commonplace book of William Lewin

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding Trevithick's results from his first trial of the Herland pole steam engine

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Letter from George Stephenson, Liverpool to Timothy Hackworth, New Shildon

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

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]’

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

8 documents

Letters from Robert Stephenson to his parents

3 items

Collection of documents relating to the Portsmouth-to-Admiralty semaphore line designed by Sir Home Riggs Popham

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

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson, Liverpool to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington, Railway Office

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Invoice from Peel, Williams and Peel for a steam engine supplied to Messrs Coates and Wright

Notebook Volume 1

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

A letter from Brunel to Mr Tucker regarding the selling of tinfoil

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

South East view of the Collegiate Church, Manchester

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

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

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Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

A reply letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy since Trevithick's return to England; answers his enquiry about performance figures for early Cornish engines