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Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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"

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

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

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

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

192 photographic prints

Foulsham and Banfield Ltd Collection

175

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Clarke

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

330

Letter from Edmond Leonard Snee, Secretary, Regent's Canal Office to Dawson Turner Esq., Care of Messrs Barclays

225

Correspondence between Ampere, Faraday and others

12 items

Folder of photos entitled '12 Wembley Snapshots'

Difference Engine index of parts.

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his parents

Letter from George Stephenson to T. Brewin

Calculation of the numerical value of a formula

Notation of the Analytical Engine

Drawing of Tender for the Magnet Loco Engine, No. 108 Two end sections showing wheels, axle boxes and brake arrangement, [presumably for new tender-patent drawing]

The first drawing of the circular arrangement of the new engine

Plan 27. This was superseded by Drawing 93. Linear arrangement.

Skeleton of vertical motions for all operations. Right groups. Multiplication and division from 372 Sheet 1. Sheet 1 of 3.

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

2 items

Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron

3 pages on 1 sheet

Letter from Michael Faraday to Frederick Pollock

235

Letter from Sir W C Trevelyan to Professor Buckland

565

Engineering drawing: International Exhibition 1862; Machinery Department; Chimney for Boiler House

1 item

Map of the Horsham Petworth and Midhurst Railway

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Long pinions in the position for stepping. Adding wheels and short pinions behind long wheels.

Lifting apparatus by screw. Sheet 9.

Carriage and racks in sections. Sheet 10.

Side and end elevation of feed motion with shade. Second revision.

Sections of framing and racks. Sheet 6.

Side and end elevation of feed motions. Showing the bands in different colours.

Reverse motion for cross planing.