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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

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"

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

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

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Archives relating to Engines used by Thomas Redfern

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

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

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

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

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

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Liverpool Engine C drawing

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

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

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

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Diary of Alfred Kitching

Passport

"Planet" type frame drawing

Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive drawing

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Edward Watkins Regarding Richard Trevithick and John Gerrard

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Lithograph of Lime Street railway station, Liverpool

Drawing of a plan view of a 2-2-2 Broad Gauge locomotive