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Volume entitled: "Barton's Ruling Engine Manuscript"

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

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"

Engineering Notebooks of John Scott Russell

Correspondence of Thomas Andrews

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

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

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

Bidder family papers

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

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Elementary Chemistry: Lecture Notes of Prof. A. W. Hofmann, Berlin, Germany

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

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

'Portfolio of photographs of Marine Engines, Boilers & Machinery'

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

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Commonplace book of William Lewin

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

Letter from Otto Lilienthal to T J Bennett and 20 Contemporary Photographs

Longhedge Works Tyre and Axle Drawings

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'

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'

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

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

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

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors