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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'

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

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

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"

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: "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"

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

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Visitors pass

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

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.

End and side elevation of Large Universal Machine.

Elevation and section of cross slide.

Plan, elevation and section of cross slide.

Plan of left half of middle group for General Plan 28.

Plan of Large Universal Machine.

Untitled plan and elevation. Incomplete.

Plan of mill, table wheels and carriage. Sheet 31.

Adding column with motion for changing from plus to minus. Incomplete.

Platform raising apparatus. Sheet 33.

Untitled. A model of six cages was made from this drawing. Incomplete.

Drawing of the parts controlling the positioning and punching of the decimal point

Tabulation of a quartic by differences