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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

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

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

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

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"

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

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Notes on Civil Engineering

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation

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

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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')"

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

183 drawings

Drawings of the Analytical Engine

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

158 daguerreotypes in original cabinet, 1 box containing Ellis's photography notes, 1 box containing copy negatives, 1 box containing conservation materials

The Ellis Collection of Daguerreotypes of Italy

Report books are written by John Graham for the Stockton and Darlington Railway Committee. Most reports are initialled or signed by one of the Directors such as Edward Pease, Joseph Pease, Joseph Pease Jr, John Pease, Jonathan Backhouse, Henry Pease and Henry Stobart. The reports give details of incidents on the line including fines issued and damage incurred.

Report books of John Graham, Stockton and Darlington Railway Employee

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

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

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

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

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

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

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Diary of Alfred Kitching

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

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

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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Social diary of Charles Babbage for the year 1844

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