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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'

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

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

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

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

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

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"

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

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

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

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'

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"

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

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"

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

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.

Pages 77 and 78 of the manuscript section of Robert Stephenson's diary

Liverpool & Manchester Railway handkerchief

Index of Difference Engine No. 2

Difference Engine index of parts.

Plan of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/164.

On putting letters to drawings, in draft.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.