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Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Portrait of Richard Johnson

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

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

Albums documenting the laying of the Trans-Pacific cables

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

Summons for exceeding speed limit of 12 miles an hour with a light locomotive on 19 July 1903

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Correspondence of Henry Pease

Papers of William Laight Applin

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'

Diary containing astronomical observations and notes

Letters patent granted to Stephen Thomas Wentworth for 'Improvements in burners for consuming gas and air combined', plus ephemeral material

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'

Notebook entitled 'Bicircloids'

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Laboratory Book of Sir Oliver Lodge

Volume entitled: "Structural Air Raid Protection in England and Abroad"

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

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"

Collection of newspaper cuttings in 'Newspaper Cuttings' embossed album

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"

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"

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Portfolio of result traces, summaries of results and notes relating to repetition by Boys of the 'Cavendish experiment'

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'