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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

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

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

Notebooks on mechanical and electrical engineering

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

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

Volume entitled: "Barton's Ruling Engine Manuscript"

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

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

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'

Laboratory Book of Sir Oliver Lodge

Notebooks kept by C.V. Boys when repeating the 'Cavendish Experiments'

Notes on Civil Engineering

Collection of newspaper cuttings in 'Newspaper Cuttings' embossed album

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')"

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

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

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"

Volume entitled: "Helical Epicycloids and Derivatives"

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

Album of photographs relating to Rockingham Gas Works and Bonners Green Alkali Works

Lantern Slides of Perkins' Engines, & High Pressure Boilers

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"

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

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