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Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

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'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

A bound volume written in clerk's hand, presented by Henry Minchin Noad to Museum of Economic Geology

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Volume of reports by British science teachers on the 1867 Paris exhibition

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Stephenson family recipe book

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Drawings of Industrial Sites and Machine Tools

Portrait of Richard Johnson

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Accounts between Coates & Wright of Ingleton and Peel, Williams & Peel of Manchester regarding the purchase of two steam engines

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

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

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

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'