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

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

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

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

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

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 Dr Andrew Ure

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

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

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

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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"

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

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

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing ground floor plan of the principal building, by signed Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

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

Plan of the Analytical Engine without lettering.

Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section

Arrangement and rack of Plan 25

Division. Sheet 9 of 15.

First edition of 'Bradshaw's Railway Time Table'

Diary of Alfred Kitching

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

Mill counting apparatus. Consecutive elevation.

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

Lithograph of Lime Street railway station, Liverpool

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing elevation of side entrance, elevation from inside, elevation of front entrance, elevation from inside, section, plan of hinge, elevation of sash detail, elevation of cast iron sash and detail at full size, signed P. Le Court Grissell and Peto.

Letter from Timothy Hackworth, Soho Engine Works, Shildon to the Chairman of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, Liverpool

Sketch of drilling machine. Details.

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

Solution of two simultaneous equations

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of the Birmingham Depot's engine round house with coke sheds, men's waiting room and superintendent's office, showing front and side elevations, section through engine house, and pit, signed Grissell and Peto.

Engraving of 'Lake Thirlmere or Wythburn Water, Cumberland'

Letter from Thomas Christy to Henry Pease

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Cross-written letter from Prudence Hackworth, Albion House to Thomas Greener

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of the basement walls of the principal building, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing front elevation of the principal building, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of the first floor showing additions to the Queen's Hotel, signed by Joseph George Branson, Edwin Gwythen and Robert B. Dochray

A letter from Brunel to Monsieur D'avannes, commenting on the working conditions, accident and health records of the workforce at the Thames Tunnel

Carriage and method of setting spiral axes for a machine of 50 cages with two figure wheels in each cage. Plan, elevation, details.