Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish
Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites
Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'
Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors
Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs
Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick
Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway
Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.
Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway
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"
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
Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"
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
Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico
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'
Diary of Robert Stephenson
Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co
Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road
Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage
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
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"
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"
Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway
Temporary staging
Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation
A letter from Brunel recommending "practical men"
A letter from Brunel to Lord Duke regarding test borings next to the River Thames
Notation of units, multiplication
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]’
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]’
Small printed card showing ‘Distances of the Collieries, by the Railway, from Stockton [and] from Darlington’
Printed article extracted from the Durham County Advertiser
Printed article extracted from the Durham Chronicle
Printed memo completed in manuscript and addressed to Leonard Raisbeck
Draft resignation letter
Printed Clarence Railway report
Handwritten Clarence Railway report
Handwritten copy of Stockton & Darlington Railway Company annual report
