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

Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

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

Commonplace book of William Lewin

North Redemore Account Book

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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

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

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

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

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

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

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'

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

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

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

Stephenson family recipe book

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

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'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Archive of Simon Goodrich, mechanist to the Navy Board

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

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

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"