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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

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

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"

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

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

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing ground floor plan of the principal building, by signed Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

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

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

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

Notebook Volume 1

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

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

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Printed notice entitled ‘In Parliament. Stockton, & Darlington Railway’

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of the basement walls of the principal building, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing front elevation of the principal building, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

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

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing section through Entrance and traffic office, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

Plan of left half of middle group for General Plan 28.

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing details of roof including gutters, binders, trusses and lead work, signed by Philip Hardwick

The first drawing of the circular arrangement of the new engine

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing section of the entrance lobby to the principal building detailing windows and includes plan, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding calculations associated with steam engines

Monochrome drawing of the Peel & Williams Phoenix Foundry

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of Birmingham Station's stables, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

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]’

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing section through the gateway passage and water closets, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of roofs and gutters of offices for goods, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Plan of mill, table wheels and carriage. Sheet 31.

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding arrangement of boiler tubes in Trevithick's Herland Mine engine

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing elevation of the flanks of the building, signed by Philip Hardwick of Grissell and Peto

Plan of a proposed alteration to locomotive engines

Drawing entitled 'Sheer Drawing for a Steel Protected Crusier for Colonial Defence to be named'