Science Museum Library: 1997 Accessions

Science Museum Library

• William Bayley: volume rel to navigational and astronomical problems 1781 (MS 424)
• George Parker Bidder (1806-78), civil engineer: papers incl corresp (ARCH:GPB, MS 612)
• George Parker Bidder (1836-96), barrister: papers incl business records rel to docks and mines (ARCH:BIDD)
• John A Chaldecott, Science Museum: papers rel to scientific instrument makers (ARCH:CHAL)
• VK Chew, Royal Signals: notebook rel to radio communications training 1941-42 (MS 455)
• Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), chemist and editor of Chemical News: laboratory books and letters to CH Gimingham, his laboratory assistant (MS 408-10)
• Robert Hamilton: journal and account book rel to pottery industry 1796-99 (MS 449)
• George J Henning, engineering student: notebooks 1942-43 (MS 1452)
• Arthur Julius Hosier (1877-1963), farmer and engineer: papers incl legal and patent records rel to inventions (MS 2018)
• William Lunn, land surveyor: account book rel to railway surveying 1843-61 (MS 448)
• Joseph Maudslay (1801-61), engineer: patents rel to marine machinery 1827-56 (MS 419)
• CCB Morris: papers incl legal and patent records rel carburettors 1912-16 (MS 2006)
• J Plumpton: volume rel to mechanics 1813 (MS 587)
• GSF Rutty: papers rel to building the Disley tunnel on New Mills to Heaton Mersey branch of Midland Railway 1899 (MS 1418)
• James Stephens, engineer and machinist, Stonehouse: daybook 1874-1921 (MS 435)
• Robert Stephenson (1803-59), MP and locomotive engineer: papers rel to winding-up of his estate (MS 2033)
• E White, apprentice, HM Dockyard School, Portsmouth: notebooks rel to naval architecture and marine engineering 1911-19 (MS 593, 609-10)
• George Hyde Wollaston, London: notebooks rel Thames Tunnel Co 1824-29 (MS 411)
• Anglo-Waldeck Mining Co: minutes and corresp 1853-55 (MS 382)
• British Dyestuffs Corporation Ltd: papers rel to experiments with Kromoline 1927-28 (MS 2004)
• North Redemore, tin mine, Cornwall: account book 1793-97 (MS 430)
• Thomas Williams & Sons, brewers, Wooburn: journal 1870-71 (MS 425)
• Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Natural Environment Research Council: papers incl minutes of hydrological research committee 1959-68 (ARCH:CHR)
• Cobb family: corresp rel to travel in Wales, Scotland, France and Belgium 1815-17 (MS 618/1-2)