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Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

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

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

5 documents

Drawings of Robert Stephenson's steam engine Rocket by John Dobson Wardale

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

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

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

Volume of patents and folded drawings of Joseph Maudslay (two with Joshua Field)

Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation

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

A bound volume written in clerk's hand, presented by Henry Minchin Noad to Museum of Economic Geology

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

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

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

Volume entitled: "Some Account of Lewis Paul and his Invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by Rollers and his claim to such Invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt"

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

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'