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Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

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

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

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

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

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"

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

Aquatinted illustration - Excavation of Olive Mount, 4 Miles from Liverpool

Aquatinted illustration - Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool

Aquatinted illustration - Coaches &c. employed on the Railway

Aquatinted illustration - Railway Office, Liverpool

Aquatinted illustration - Taking in water at Parkside

Aquatinted illustration - Railway Office, Liverpool

Difference Engine index of parts.

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.

Back and end elevation of cross slide.

Side and end elevations of feed and driving apparatus

Small planing machine. Sheet 1.

Elevation and section of cross slide.

End and side elevation of Large Universal Machine.

Plan, elevation and section of cross slide.

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

Plan of Large Universal Machine.

Untitled plan and elevation. Incomplete.

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

Adding column with motion for changing from plus to minus. Incomplete.

Platform raising apparatus. Sheet 33.

Untitled. A model of six cages was made from this drawing. Incomplete.

Drawing of the parts controlling the positioning and punching of the decimal point

Reduction of three simultaneous equations in three variables to two simultaneous equations in two variables

My Machine 1888 II Plan of driving cams, levers, etc. in initial position.

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Sheet 1. Successive reduction of three simultaneous equations in three variables to find the solution for one variable.

Sheet 2. Successive reduction of five simultaneous equations in five variables to find the solution for one variable.

Pages 44 and 45 of the Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Pages 28 and 29 of the Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Pages 40 and 41 of the Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick