


Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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.

Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation

Difference Engine index of parts.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Adding axis and wheels without framing

Plan of the figure wheels for one method of adding numbers.

Solution of two simultaneous equations

Notation for the coefficients of the powers of x Computation of the coefficients of a polynomial from those of another divided by a linear term.

Frame of adding wheels

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Section of adding wheels and framing.

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.
