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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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"

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

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

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

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

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

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

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

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

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing ground floor plan of the principal building, by signed Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth

Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

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

Letter from Timothy Hackworth to Liverpool and Manchester Railway Board

Untitled. This drawing is a cardboard model.

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his parents

General plan of the Analytical Engine, half size.

Plan of left half of middle group for General Plan 28.

The first drawing of the circular arrangement of the new engine

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Proceedings of the Committee of the House of Commons on the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad Bill, 1825

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

Plan of mill, table wheels and carriage. Sheet 31.

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his parents

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

Plan of a proposed alteration to locomotive engines

Notation of the Analytical Engine

Drawing entitled 'Sheer Drawing for a Steel Protected Crusier for Colonial Defence to be named'

First sketch of all the parts in plan of the right half to middle group of General Plan 28. Plan, elevation.

Parts of slide for the Planing machine. Plan, elevation

Multiplication. Sheet 1 of 4.

Algebraic addition. Sheet 1 of 2.

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

Untitled. [Vertical positions of some of the wheels of Plan 28a. Notation 348 and 331 cycles]. Sheet 12 of 13.

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

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]

Gearing et cetera of Sketch dated July 31 1835. Plan, once part of Drawing 22.

Difference Engine index of parts.

Printed notice entitled ‘In Parliament. Stockton, & Darlington Railway’