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Drawings of the Great Eastern steam ship

5 sheets

The Babbage Papers

11 plan press drawers and 8 linear meters of shelving

Penn-Gaskell collection of aeronautical posters and handbills

Penn-Gaskell collection of aeronautical posters and handbills

The Ferranti Archive

260.29 linear metres

Laporte Archive

141 boxes

Collection of John Herschel's notebooks

4 volumes

Album of historical material relating to the coachbuilding firm of Hooper & Co.

375

Astronomical Map: Apollo Lunar Orbit Chart (ALO), Apollo Mission 11

305

Archive related to construction and test flights of the Concorde 002 prototype aircraft

17 boxes and 10 rolled sets

Manchester Steam Users' Association Registers of Explosions

0.5 linear metres

Photographic album of Ransomes and Rapier Ltd.

12

Metropolitan Vickers and GEC business records and photographs

200 linear metres

The diplomas of Charles Babbage

41 items

Manuscripts, typescripts and printed materials related to Hertha Ayrton

Manuscripts, typescripts and printed materials related to Hertha Ayrton

Papers relating to the clinical and experimental neuroscientific work carried out at the Burden Neurological Institute

3 linear feet

Collection of Plant Record books for B Laporte Ltd.

5 volumes

Collection of engineering drawings of early petrol car engines developed by Major Frederic Strickland

c.100 drawings

Drawings and Technical Information Produced by W.F. Stanley and Co. Ltd.

97 boxes

Early prints of cotton mills and cotton processes

7 items

Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire

Original: • 171 pages (65 of these pages with diagrams), + 3 sheets (different sizes) laid in loosely Digital copy: • 206 TIFF files for digital preservation (9.35 GB) • 206 JPEG files for general use (751.5 MB)

Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.

4 items

Lancashire Electric Power Company system diagrams

0.1 linear metres

Photographs of Rolls-Royce and Bentley Cars with Associated Individuals

0.2 linear metres

Porton Down Archive of Chemical Warfare

Porton Down Archive of Chemical Warfare

Collection of pocket diaries by 296 Private Alex L. Russell

100

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

310

Archival material relating to the employment of Alan Bardsley at Ferranti

0.3 linear metres

Photographic print: LM Descent Monitoring Chart, Apollo Mission 10

303

LNWR Liverpool Road Station Manchester

0.02 linear metres

Notebook of C.H.B. Reynolds entitled: "Science"

30

Records of Bakelite Xylonite Ltd, plastics manufacturers

5 ring binders, 17 lever-arch files, 1 microfilm cabinet and 8 boxes

Volume entitled: "The Description and Use of a Terrestrial Planetarium, including the Orbits of Mercury and Venus commonly called an Orrery"

15

Collection of archive documents and photographs relating to the work of Charles Eric Strong at Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd.

4 boxes

Material relating to the work of T.J. Biggs on early cars, motorcycles and bicycles.

0.38 m [1 box and 1 album], 1 plan press drawer [1.11 m]

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

9 items

Collection of papers on Cornish tin mining

0.3 m (1 box)

Archive material from the Electricity Council and its predecessor and related organisations

c1200 linear metres

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

30

Collection of textile design drawings and notes by Jacob Dimoldenberg.

4 linear metres

A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Chemistry

37

Notebooks on mechanical and electrical engineering

7 volumes

Analysis of Ostwald's Theory of Colour

320

Collection of documents relating to Skylark sounding rocket, predominantly to the development of Attitude Control Units

5 boxes

Collection of textile or wallpaper designs by Maurice Pilkington

400 items

Jean Elizabeth Gregson textile design portfolio

0.5 linear metres

Engineer's sketch book by J. C. Staplin

30

Papers of Sir Barnes Wallis

18.00 metres (109 boxes and 10 large format items); 2 plan press drawers (1.44 metres per drawer)

Geoffrey Perry archive relating to operation of the Kettering Group

c.90 boxes

Collection of letters to Charles Babbage

19 items

Building Plans for Warehouse Belonging to Manchester Central Packing Warehouse Ltd

0.08 linear metres