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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'

Collection of pocket diaries by 296 Private Alex L. Russell

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'

Drawing of broad wheeled Sussex waggon as used in the counties Sussex & Kent, Southern England circa 1700-1930

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

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

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

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

Notices of dismissal to staff at Mirfield Shed issued by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Collection of publications relating to Robertshaws' electric vacuum cleaners and Nasmyth inventions

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Collection of civil and mechanical engineering drawings of Bramah & Robinson

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Collection of newspaper cuttings concerning early development of aeronautics

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

Spare parts 'catalogue' for taximeter, Heron Rogers production type

Volume entitled: "Barton's Ruling Engine Manuscript"

Master of Technical Science thesis entitled: "History of Fenton Murray & Wood"

Volume entitled: "History of Elkington & Co. by Robert Eadon Leader"

Photographic albums relating to Charles Rolls

Manuscript entitled: "Charcoal Burning in the Forest of Dean by Herbert Curwen"

Thesis entitled: "The Distribution of Electricity in Rural Areas 1926 to 1963 An Investigation"

The Application of Computers to Taxonomy by Peter Henry Andrews Sneath

Vorlesung uber theoretische Mechanik by Christian Felix Klein

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'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

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

Notebook entitled: "Chemical Notes: Analyses"

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

Correspondence of Thomas Andrews

Bound volume entitled: "Water-Supply in Gaza and Wadi El Ghuzze"

"Catalogue of an Important Collection of Engineers' Tools, Plant & Machinery"

Collection of laboratory notebooks: "Catalogue of Spectra"