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

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

Letter from Queen Victoria relating to chloroform assisted birth

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

5 documents

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

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Collection of newspaper cuttings in 'Newspaper Cuttings' embossed album

Union Patriotic Envelope No. 2 Cotton Is King!

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

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"

Manuscript journal of John Bourne

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

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

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

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

Notebooks on mechanical and electrical engineering

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

Volume entitled: "Barton's Ruling Engine Manuscript"

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

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

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"

A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico-Printing

Drawing of Midland Railway extension to London, engine shed at Kentish Town, elevations and sections

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

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

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. 2871) granted to Henry Woodcroft Hammond for 'An Improved Compound Blower'

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

Laboratory Book of Sir Oliver Lodge

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

Side elevation of the Rocket locomotive engine

Drawing of Midland Railway Extension to London, St Pancras Station, Ironwork and Roofing Contract, plans, sections and details of ridge joint, plans section and details of ventilator

Autograph letter from Otto Lilienthal to T J Bennett

1 item

Drawing of stop cock and blow off cock

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

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

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

Letters patent (no.522) granted to William Millard for 'Improvements in Jacquard looms'

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

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

Volume entitled: "Aerial Navigation"

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

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

Lantern Slides of Perkins' Engines, & High Pressure Boilers

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