Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.
Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'
Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites
Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'
Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'
Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'
Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"
Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works
Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"
Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire
Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine
Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel
Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar
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"