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Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

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

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

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

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

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

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

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

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Books of signatures of visitors to the works of Sharp, Roberts & Co.

Notes on Civil Engineering

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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')"

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"

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

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

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

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

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

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

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

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

Collection of letters to Charles Babbage

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Business names and addresses, with some notes on metal alloys

History.

Notes and observations on ores and compounds

Temporary staging

A letter from Brunel to G Dollond saying the entrance to the tunnel will be at Wapping

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

Untitled.[Rough sketches of machine parts and tools].

Brunel's autobiographical note