


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

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

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

Commonplace book of William Lewin

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

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

Drawings of Industrial Sites and Machine Tools

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

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

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

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

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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"

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

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

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

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

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

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'

Visitors pass

Pages 77 and 78 of the manuscript section of Robert Stephenson's diary

Difference Engine index of parts.

Plan of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/164.

On putting letters to drawings, in draft.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.
