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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'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Volume of reports by British science teachers on the 1867 Paris exhibition

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

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'

Printed booklets of Special Rules and Regulations to be observed at specific collieries in England and Wales, made pursuant to the Coal Mines Regulations Act, 1872

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

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

Correspondence of Thomas Andrews

Commonplace book of William Lewin

North Redemore Account Book

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

Accounts between Coates & Wright of Ingleton and Peel, Williams & Peel of Manchester regarding the purchase of two steam engines

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

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

Letters from William Crookes to his laboratory assistant, Charles Henry Gimingham

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Notebooks on mechanical and electrical engineering

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

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

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

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'

Volume entitled: "Barton's Ruling Engine Manuscript"

HEB Ledger No. 3

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

Collection of civil and mechanical engineering drawings of Bramah & Robinson

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

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

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

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Papers relating to the astronomical work of G. B. Airy and the engineering work of his eldest son, Wilfrid Airy

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

Collection of letters signed by scientists, physicians and engineers, generally on scientific or professional matters

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Portrait of Richard Johnson

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