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Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

Notebooks on mechanical and electrical engineering

Volume entitled: "Apothecary's Memorandum Book"

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Account book of the firm of Thomas Farmer & Co., Kennington Green

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

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

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

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Mines de Fer nommes Normarken dans la Province Wermelandie en Svede"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Printed booklets of Special Rules and Regulations to be observed at specific collieries in England and Wales, made pursuant to the Coal Mines Regulations Act, 1872

Bidder family papers

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

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

Volume entitled: "The Description and Use of a Terrestrial Planetarium, including the Orbits of Mercury and Venus commonly called an Orrery"

An early 18th century manuscript relating to surveying and land use entitled: "Surveying"

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Meteorological Registers

Papers relating to the Thames Driftway and Richard Trevithick's involvement in the project

Anonymously compiled volume of excerpts from alchemical works

North Redemore Account Book

Elementary Chemistry: Lecture Notes of Prof. A. W. Hofmann, Berlin, Germany

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

Volume of reports by British science teachers on the 1867 Paris exhibition

Two manuscripts in French bound in one volume entitled: "Essai sur les fers coules Pour le Roy" and "Memoire sur la fonte et la Moulage des Bombes "

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

'Portfolio of photographs of Marine Engines, Boilers & Machinery'

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

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Accounts between Coates & Wright of Ingleton and Peel, Williams & Peel of Manchester regarding the purchase of two steam engines

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

Original drawings for Lister's 'Conchology'

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: "The Method of Building, Rigging, Apparelling and Furnishing his Majesty's Ships of Warr, according to their Rates - with The Exact Proportion and Charge of all Things requisite thereunto"

Volume entitled: "The length of all the Mastes and yards of his Ma[jesty's] ships and Pinnaces; A proportion of cables and anchors to furnish them to sea; All their standing roapes; Dimentions of their boates; Breadth and depth of their sayles; their burthen, number of men and ordnance."

Diary containing astronomical observations and notes

Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

Leonard Raisbeck Archive

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

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

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

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

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

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Letters patent (no. 992) granted to Captain William Henry Cutler for 'Improvements in Turbines'

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth