


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

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 "

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

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

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

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

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

Letters patent (no. 1471) granted to Joseph Rothery and Andrew Rothery for 'Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for cutting coal, stone and other minerals'

Letters patent (no.522) granted to William Millard for 'Improvements in Jacquard looms'

Letters patent (no. 2871) granted to Henry Woodcroft Hammond for 'An Improved Compound Blower'

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

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

Letter from Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg to Mattw. Boulton Esq.

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'

Certificate admitting Samuel Argall to the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Padua

HEB Ledger No. 3

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Drawings of Industrial Sites and Machine Tools

Portrait of Richard Johnson

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

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'
