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Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Swindon Works Drawings

Leonard Raisbeck Archive

Early prints of cotton mills and cotton processes

Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine

Stephenson family recipe book

Drawings of the Midland Railway Extension to London (St Pancras)

Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

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

Collection of John Herschel's notebooks

Collection of letters to Charles Babbage

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

Album of photographs, mainly of cyclists, cycling clubs and bicycles

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Longhedge Works Tyre and Axle Drawings

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

Notebooks of plastics pioneer Alexander Parkes

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

Archive of Simon Goodrich, mechanist to the Navy Board

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

5 documents

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

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Ground plan of Her Majesty's Dockyard in Plymouth

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Collection of newspaper cuttings in 'Newspaper Cuttings' embossed album

Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel

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

Union Patriotic Envelope No. 2 Cotton Is King!

Volume entritled: "Elements of Plane Geometry and also The Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids"

Letters from William Crookes to his laboratory assistant, Charles Henry Gimingham

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

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.

Original drawings for Lister's 'Conchology'

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"

Correspondence of Henry Pease

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Letter from Otto Lilienthal to T J Bennett and 20 Contemporary Photographs