Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish
Commonplace book of William Lewin
Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'
Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping
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'
Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.
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
Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'
Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery
Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel
Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico
Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match
Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar
Marshall's Geological Diagrams
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"
Lecture Notes on Chemistry
Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'
Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"
Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"
Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines
School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset
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
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
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 arrangement of boiler tubes in Trevithick's Herland Mine engine
A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engine velocity
Temporary staging
A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engines
Copy [bill] London [to] Navy Commissrs./John Rennie, [for] Cast Iron Diving Bell, [pumps and machinery parts etc Reference to the 'Sheerness Diving Bell'. Bears note re the bell/Goodrich, and note from the Navy Office on verso]
Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'
List of chemical expenses
Stepping No. 1 on or in central wheels. Figure 1. Figure 2. Various unnumbered elevations, plans and details.
A letter from Davies Giddy advising Richard Trevithick on his future course of action following the failure of a claim for government assistance
Notebook titled 'Draft Notations and Sketches of Notations: Cases'
Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.
A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding calculations associated with steam engines
A letter from Brunel to Mr Tucker regarding his recently patented tinfoil
See designs dated 1834 November 27 and 1834 December 29.
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