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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'

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

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

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

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

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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"

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

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

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

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"

A notice detailing the quantities of coals and small goods hauled on the railway 1826-1829

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Plan of operation and variable card counting apparatus. Suited to Plans 28 and 28a.

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

Engraving of 'Lake Thirlmere or Wythburn Water, Cumberland'

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

Scribbling Book Volume II

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

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

See designs dated 1834 November 27 and 1834 December 29.

Visitors pass

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

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Cross-written letter from Miss Smith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter from Elizabeth Dove, Leeds to Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Darlington

Pages 8 and 9 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 14 and 15 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Second front flyleaf and page 1 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 6 and 7 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 178 and 179 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 118 and 119 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 174 and 175 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 40 and 41 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 108 and 109 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 168 and 169 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 30 and 31 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 110 and 111 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838

Pages 32 and 33 of John Graham's report book 1835-1838