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Volume entitled: "Apothecary's Memorandum Book"

Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

North Redemore Account Book

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

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 "

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

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

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

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

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

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

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

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

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

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

Principles of Mechanics by George Adams

Manuscript entitled: "Grundliche Anleitung zur Chemie Part II Section II"

Typescript copy of 'Anson's list of H.M. Royal Navy 1747-1750'

A Description of the Pneumatic Apparatus made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty

Archibald Guillan's book on mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation

Journal entitled: "Coal Journal book or Journall Scituation of the Coals of Bogie begun at Sir John Wemyss's death 19th January 1719"

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

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

Volume entitled: "Some Account, of the Work's done by Captain John Perry"

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

'James Burrow's Arithmetick MDCCXXXVIII'

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Volume entitled: "Illumni sui Charissimi Josephi Ball calculorum Rationem experimens Libellus Quemq"

Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to coal trade and coastal shipping in north-east England

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion by John Curr

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

Lithograph depicting east view of the cast iron bridge under construction over the River Wear at Sunderland

Sketch of a pair of small shears for cutting the edges of copper sheets used for the sheating of ships

Drawing of the dam and setting for the wharf at South Dock Pier in Portsmouth

Drawing of large shears from metal mills, as first made

Plan of iron mill and copper mill showing hammers, boilers and furnaces in the four buildings

Letter from Robert Bill to Messrs Haynes and Douglas

Invoice from Peel, Williams and Peel for a steam engine supplied to Messrs Coates and Wright

Instructions to the illustrator of 'A description of an apparatus for explaining the principles of mechanicks made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams'

Ground plan of building of Kings Mills at Portsmouth

Drawing of aqueduct over the River Rea

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, longitudinal section of foundry

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, cross section of foundry

Design for the steam engine for metal mills, plan of beam engine

Arrangement for 56 Horse engine and boiler house, elevation of foundations