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Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Stephenson family recipe book

Portrait of Richard Johnson

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Collection of letters signed by scientists, physicians and engineers, generally on scientific or professional matters

Principles of Mechanics by George Adams

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester

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

'The aerial candidates...', an aeronautical play

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Collection of civil and mechanical engineering drawings of Bramah & Robinson

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

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

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

Correspondence of Thomas Andrews

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

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

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

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

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)

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

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