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

Longhedge Works Tyre and Axle Drawings

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

Collection of newspaper cuttings in 'Newspaper Cuttings' embossed album

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

Letter from Otto Lilienthal to T J Bennett and 20 Contemporary Photographs

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

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

Student notes entitled 'Electricity'

Notebooks on mechanical and electrical engineering

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Papers of William Laight Applin

A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico-Printing

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

Manuscript entitled: "Charcoal Burning in the Forest of Dean by Herbert Curwen"

Thesis entitled: "The Distribution of Electricity in Rural Areas 1926 to 1963 An Investigation"

Vorlesung uber theoretische Mechanik by Christian Felix Klein

Volume entitled; "Note sur les moteurs a petrole pour sous-marins"

Albums documenting the laying of the Trans-Pacific cables

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

Lockwood's index of United States telephone patents to Dec. 31, 1900

Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

AVRO Manchester Tender Specification

Issue of "The Strand" magazine, March 1921

Autograph letter from Otto Lilienthal to T J Bennett

19 items

Papers relating to the building of the Disley Tunnel, Midland Railway

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'

Beregning af lange sporisolationer

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

Summons for exceeding speed limit of 12 miles an hour with a light locomotive on 19 July 1903

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: "Structural Air Raid Protection in England and Abroad"

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'

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

Volume entitled: "Helical Epicycloids and Derivatives"

An edition of 'The Builders Journal and Architectural Record' Vol. XIV, No. 362

Albums documenting the laying of submarine cables (Sierra Leone-Ascension, Durban-Mauritius)