Sir John Wolfe-Barry (1836-1918), civil engineer: engineering plans for Tower Bridge 1886-1894 (MSP/0140)
Alfred Rosling Bennett (1850-1928), electrical engineer: autobiographical volumes and album of printed ephemera 1877-1911 (MS/2170)
John Evershed (1864-1956), astronomer: notes, journals, material from eclipse expeditions, photographs and glass plates of solar observations and expeditions c1870-1959 (EVER)
Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton Down: papers rel to various aspects of chemical warfare, particularly the effects of chemical weapons on people and the environment 1912-1989 (PDA)
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