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

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

Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway

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

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

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

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

Printed Stockton & Darlington Railway Company annual report

Handwritten accounts regarding the income and expenditure of the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Notice entitled 'At the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Clarence Railway, Held at the Town Hall, Stockton...'

Handwritten summary of legal case against railway labourers laying the rails for the Clarence Railway across a road

Notice entitled 'Clarence Railway'

Notice entitled 'At Special Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Clarence Railway Company, held at the George and Vulture Tavern, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London...'

Letter from Francis Mewburn, 22 Craven Street to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton