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Collection of charts depicting the hardware and uses of computing, communication and domestic technology in India

ABC Wax fabric samples

Set of 20 interviews on audio cassettes 'Pioneers of Computing'

Plans of engineering projects and illustrations by Frank Wightman

The Rob Gretton Collection of Business Papers as a Director of Factory (Communications) Limited

13 photographic prints

Photographs of ICI (Organics) Blackley plant, Manchester

93 photographic prints, 222 photographic negatives, 2 discs

Photographs of Workers at the Ferranti Wythenshawe Factory

4 items

Collection of Ferranti International Ordinary Share Certificates

PhD theses entitled: "Design of Superconducting Machines"

Volume entitled: "A brief history of the origin and progress of the royal harbour of Ramsgate"

Scripts and recording of the BBC Radio 3 musical entertainment programme ‘Mischief-Making Moon’, presented by Patrick Moore

NASA Acronyms and Abbreviations Dictionary: Flight Operations Directorate Crew Training and Procedures Division

2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Collection

2 items

Motor Fuel Ration Books

2 items

Photographs of ICL circuit board assembly

Drawing of general arrangement of Planet locomotive

Collection of notebooks relating to the Nuffield Foundation A-level Physics Course

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

Collection of Papers and Photographs relating to Roy Chadwick

Journal of Weights, Measures, Weighing and Measuring Equipment submitted for Testing and Fees received by the Trading Standards Officer

145 posters

Collection of Posters from Sankeys Soap Nightclub

0.05 linear metres

Archive material from ABC Wax

3 files and 193 engineering drawings

Engineering Drawings for the Replica 'Planet' Locomotive

3 boxes containing 4 lever arch files and 1 bundle

Brochures and Newsletters for Ferranti Computers, Ferranti-Syseca and Ferranti-Thomson Sonar Systems

8 items

Collection of posters, flyers and artworks for posters relating to Factory Records

0.08 linear metres

Company Literature from Rotunda Plc

215

Thesis entitled: "The little engines that could've: the calculating machines of Charles Babbage"

Brochure giving an overview of the activities of the research centre based at Wembley.

GEC Hirst Research Centre

John Cooper Clarke Goes Rabid

Emirates Airline manual of Uniform and Grooming standards for cabin crew

Uniform standards for Emirates cabin crew

16 items

Archive relating to the ICL Series 39 SX Computer

21 items, consisting of 3 booklets and leaflets, 1 volume, 10 photographic prints and 6 contact sheets, 1 plan

Documents Related to Ferranti Computer Systems

Approximately 17,000 individual items incorporating 2,000 fine art and contemporary photographs, as well as a paper-based archive incorporating promotional materials, research files, prints, posters, and correspondence.

Impressions Gallery Archive

Records of the Friends of the Museum of Science & Industry

GM Archive / Professor Michael Wilson collection relating to genetically modified foods, crops, research and industry

Volume entitled: "Hipparchus of Bithynia. Of the Phenomena of Aratus and Eudoxus. The 3rd Exposition out of Book 3 in 3 Expositions"

Dr. J. A. Chaldecott collection on scientific instrument makers

c.50 (1 tube)

Integrated Photomatrix Limited

Illustrated colour brochure providing brief descriptions about the various facilities at the site and the products it manufactured.

GEC at Trafford Park

Collection of Ephemera Issued to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Geoffrey Key Sketches of Wire and Rod Making Process at Richard Johnson & Nephew

Certificate - Freedom of the City of Manchester presented to Sir Bernard Lovell

Thesis entitled: "Kensington's Electricity Supply : It's Nineteenth Century Beginnings"

MA dissertation entitled: "Living with Plastics : Museums, Materials and Culture"

Typescript entitled: "The life and work of Alexander Melville and his invention in patenting the Rigmel cloth shrinking m/c and further development in textile shrinking"

An American Powdermaker in Europe : Lammot du Pont's Journal, 1858, by Norman B. Wilkinson

Drawing of general details for Planet locomotive 1830

0.08 linear metres

Aircraft Handbooks and Operation Manuals

A collection of promotional material and also blank operational documents such as boarding passes, luggage labels, inflight menus, inflight magazine, various documents to be filled out by cabin crew, radio navigation chart, along with computer briefing notes for G-OOAD flight between Manchester and Palma on the 23rd November 1994.

Air 2000 Promotional and Flight Operations Material

Fabric samples from ABC Wax