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

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

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

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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

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"

Liverpool Engine C drawing

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

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

Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

158 daguerreotypes in original cabinet, 1 box containing Ellis's photography notes, 1 box containing copy negatives, 1 box containing conservation materials

The Ellis Collection of Daguerreotypes of Italy

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

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

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

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

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

The general plan of Mr. Babbage's Great Calculating Engine. Arrangement and rack, details, et cetera.

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Diary of Alfred Kitching

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

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

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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Social diary of Charles Babbage for the year 1844

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

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]’

Passport

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

8 documents

Letters from Robert Stephenson to his parents

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

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

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

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

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

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

Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive

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

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

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'