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

Letters patent (no. 1471) granted to Joseph Rothery and Andrew Rothery for 'Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for cutting coal, stone and other minerals'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

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

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

Letters patent (no.522) granted to William Millard for 'Improvements in Jacquard looms'

Letters patent (no. 2871) granted to Henry Woodcroft Hammond for 'An Improved Compound Blower'

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

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

Correspondence of Thomas Andrews

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

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

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'

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

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'

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

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

Swindon Works Drawings

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.

Portrait of Richard Johnson

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

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

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Drawings of the Midland Railway Extension to London (St Pancras)

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

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

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

Photograph album entitled: 'Products of the Gutta Percha Company'

Books of signatures of visitors to the works of Sharp, Roberts & Co.

Notes on Civil Engineering

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'