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Volume entitled: "Barton's Ruling Engine Manuscript"

Manuscript entitled: "Charcoal Burning in the Forest of Dean by Herbert Curwen"

Vorlesung uber theoretische Mechanik by Christian Felix Klein

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

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)

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

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

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Commonplace book of William Lewin

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

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'