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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'

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

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

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

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

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

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

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'

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

Papers and drawings of Charles Wheatstone

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

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

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

Swindon Works Drawings

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Drawings of the Midland Railway Extension to London (St Pancras)

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

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

Books of signatures of visitors to the works of Sharp, Roberts & Co.

Notes on Civil Engineering

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'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

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

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

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"