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Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Swindon Works Drawings

Leonard Raisbeck Archive

Stoke Works Drawings

Early prints of cotton mills and cotton processes

Memorabilia album from SS Arandora Star’s voyage to the West Indies

Engineering drawing: Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction

11 plan press drawers and 8 linear meters of shelving

The Babbage Papers

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

Highbridge Works Drawings

Stephenson family recipe book

Collection of engineering drawings of early petrol car engines developed by Major Frederic Strickland

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

Photographic album of Ransomes and Rapier Ltd.

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

Beyer, Peacock Blue Prints for Eng Ord 144 Isle of Man 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

Photographic albums relating to Charles Rolls

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

Photographs of the Mount Street Mills works of John A Wood Ltd

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

Steam Pressure Valve Drawing, Leaflet and Delivery Label

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Album of photographs of Renard Road Trains

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'

Issue of "The Strand" magazine, December 1920

Union Patriotic Envelope No. 2 Cotton Is King!