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Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

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

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

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

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

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"

Photograph album entitled: 'Products of the Gutta Percha Company'

Album of photographs, mainly of cyclists, cycling clubs and bicycles

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

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: "Aerial Navigation"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Sviluppo di alcuni corpi Stereometrico Mineralogici secondo i celebri Autori Dufrenoy, Hauy, Mohs, Rose, Neumann

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"

Journal describing Thomas Bowden's work as a jointer laying and repairing submarine cables

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

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Collection of letters to Charles Babbage

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams