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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'

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'

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

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

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

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

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

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

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

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

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

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

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

Laboratory Book of Sir Oliver Lodge

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"

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

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

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

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"

Brewer's Journal (production record of the Stag Brewery, Wooburn Green, Bucks.)

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

5 documents

Drawings of Robert Stephenson's steam engine Rocket by John Dobson Wardale

History.

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

History.

History.

A note relating to the steam engines at the Ingleton Mill

Sketch of mould for adding column collars.

Part of the end view of the Difference Engine

Locking motions for carriage column.

Untitled, showing details of parts, including figure wheel to receive addition.

Untitled. Shows details of mill and store racks, and breaking and making chains.

Untitled pencil layout, includes mill racks.

Untitled sketches of various machine parts such as carriage, store rack, warning arm, wedges bars and tens warning slides. Plans and elevations.

Half zero details including warning plate.

Untitled. Probably a plan and elevation of mill rack connections.

Probably a plan and elevation showing store and mill racks.

Details of circular pattern half zero. Incomplete.

Untitled rough sketch of machine parts.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]