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

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

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

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

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

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

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temporary staging

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Stepping No. 1 on or in central wheels. Figure 1. Figure 2. Various unnumbered elevations, plans and details.

A letter from Davies Giddy advising Richard Trevithick on his future course of action following the failure of a claim for government assistance

Notebook titled 'Draft Notations and Sketches of Notations: Cases'

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

See designs dated 1834 November 27 and 1834 December 29.

Visitors pass

A letter from Brunel to Lord Duke regarding test borings next to the River Thames

Receipts and charges for various accounts and goods plus lists of addresses and of fruit trees planted by A. Parkes

Untitled. [Operations for the Analytical Engine]

Notebook titled 'Draft Notations and Sketches of Notations'

A letter from Brunel to Monsieur D'avannes, commenting on the working conditions, accident and health records of the workforce at the Thames Tunnel

Addition No. 4. Carriage No 6. Elevation and plan.

Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation

Lithograph of Planet locomotive

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

Liverpool & Manchester Railway handkerchief

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Humfray's (sic) Engine B Wales drawing

Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section

"Planet" type frame drawing

Plan of Large Garnkirk Locomotive

Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive