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Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Diary of Robert Stephenson

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

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

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

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"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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

Archives relating to Engines used by Thomas Redfern

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

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

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

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

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 John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

The general plan of Mr. Babbage's Great Calculating Engine. Arrangement and rack, details, et cetera.

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Letter from George Stephenson, Liverpool to Timothy Hackworth, New Shildon

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

Diary of Alfred Kitching

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Passport

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive drawing

Rough notes and sketches, including drawings of Babbage's game 'Tit Tat Toe'.