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Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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"

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

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

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

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

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'

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

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

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

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

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

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

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

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

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

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

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

Letter from George Stephenson to T. Brewin

Notice entitled ‘Canal. Aug. 8, 1818. The very respectable meeting convened at Stockton on the 31st of last month, to consider of the expediency of cutting a canal into the Coal District, appears to have been so unanimous respecting it… but, differing, as I do, in opinion with all who decide for a canal, I venture to submit to them, and to the Public generally, whether it would not be best to reject a canal altogether, and substitute a Rail Road on the most approved construction…’

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Notice entitled ‘Canal and Rail-Road. To the inhabitants of Stockton and Cleveland.'

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding steam engines

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

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

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his parents

The first drawing of the circular arrangement of the new engine

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

Proceedings of the Committee of the House of Commons on the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad Bill, 1825

Notation of the Analytical Engine

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

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

Plan of operation and variable card counting apparatus. Suited to Plans 28 and 28a.

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his parents

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]’