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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

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'

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

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'

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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

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

Archive of Simon Goodrich, mechanist to the Navy Board

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

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

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

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

Notes on Civil Engineering

Books of signatures of visitors to the works of Sharp, Roberts & Co.

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

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

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

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

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

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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"

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

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

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

Volume of patents and folded drawings of Joseph Maudslay (two with Joshua Field)

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

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')"