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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

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Correspondence from James Spratt regarding lightning conductors

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

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

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

Receipts for Shipping of Goods via Liverpool Road Goods Station

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

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'

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.

A note relating to the steam engines at the Ingleton Mill

Side elevation of the Rocket locomotive engine

Sectional drawing of the engine boiler

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Sketch of mould for adding column collars.

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.

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

Half zero details including warning plate.

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]

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

Untitled drawing of Midland Railway Pancras Contract, showing railway line approaches in diagramatic form and relation to Metropolitan Railway Second Line Contract and Hotel

Drawing of Midland Railway Extension to London, detail of fitting shops at Kentish Town showing section through fitting shop and engine pit with details of roofing, windows, sills, skylight etc.

The Manchester Man, Volume 3

An Architectural and General Description of the Town Hall, Manchester

Temporary staging

Scribbling Book Volume VIII