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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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

North Redemore Account Book

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 "

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

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'

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

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

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

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Collection of civil and mechanical engineering drawings of Bramah & Robinson

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

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

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester