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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

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'

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

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

Portrait photograph of Charlotte Wilsdon

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

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'

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

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

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

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

Notes on Civil Engineering

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"

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

Letters patent (no.361) to Samuel Webb Thomas for 'Improvements in Bicycles'

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

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

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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"

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

Letters patent (no. 992) granted to Captain William Henry Cutler for 'Improvements in Turbines'

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

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Business names and addresses, with some notes on metal alloys

Scribbling Book Volume X

History.

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

Temporary staging

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Scribbling Book Volume XIA.

History.

History.

A note relating to the steam engines at the Ingleton Mill

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics