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

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Diary of Robert Stephenson

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

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

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

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

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

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

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

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

Liverpool Engine C drawing

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

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

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Letter from George Stephenson, Liverpool to Timothy Hackworth, New Shildon

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Passport

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

"Planet" type frame drawing

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive

Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive drawing

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

Lithograph of Lime Street railway station, Liverpool

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]’

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

Small printed card showing ‘Distances of the Collieries, by the Railway, from Stockton [and] from Darlington’

Letter from George Stephenson and Thomas Storey to Joseph Pease Jr

Letter from Robert Stephenson, Liverpool to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington, Railway Office

Lithograph of Planet locomotive

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Solution of two simultaneous equations