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Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

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

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'

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'

HEB Ledger No. 3

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Drawings of Industrial Sites and Machine Tools

Portrait of Richard Johnson

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

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'

Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

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

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Drawings of the Midland Railway Extension to London (St Pancras)

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Letters patent (no. 992) granted to Captain William Henry Cutler for 'Improvements in Turbines'

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Correspondence of Henry Pease

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

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

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Laboratory Book of Sir Oliver Lodge

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

Volume entitled: "Some Account of Lewis Paul and his Invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by Rollers and his claim to such Invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt"

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar