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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: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

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

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

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

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

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'

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

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 diplomas of Charles Babbage

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Collection of prints of buildings around Greater Manchester

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

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Collection of civil and mechanical engineering drawings of Bramah & Robinson

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Stephenson family recipe book

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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