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Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research |
Local
- Herbert Kellaway (fl 1900-1953), works forman: photograph album of the works of Stothert and Pitt Ltd, engineers, Bath, incl interior and exterior views, official visits, staff social events, and flood and air raid damage 1900-1953 (1283)
- General Electric Company plc, manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment: photograph album of nuclear power stations 1961-1966 (PHGEC)
- A J Roberts (fl 1951-1969), meteorologist: meteorological and rainfall charts for Comberton and Little Eversden 1951-1969 (R118/054)
- Murad Developments Ltd, mechanical manufacturers, Stocklake: records incl technical drawings and factory photographs rel to production of lathes and two models of car c1950-1959 (AR 43/2018)
- Ronald Montgomery Callender (fl 1980-2018), historian: research papers rel to the life and times of Dr Ferdinand Hurter and Vero Charles Driffield and their experimental photographic technique developed in Widnes 1848-2016 (D 9086)
- Footner family of Cheshire: handwritten notes and photographs documenting lives of family members incl Harry Footner (1840-1931), railway engineer 1900-1930 (D 9099)
- Richard Cody (d2018), science historian: research notes for 'An annotated bibliography of Cornish mining, history geology and archaeology (including industrial metalwork), the social and economic history of the Cornish miner at home and overseas, Cornish environmental studies, culture and heritage and cognate subjects from 1482 to 2010' 1990-2018 (Accession 10112)
- Durham University College of Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne: receipt book for payment of stipends to professors and lecturers at the Durham College of Science 1884-1887 (D/X 2157)
- Loch Lomond Water Supply Scheme: photograph albums and engineering reports c1950-1979 (TD2038)
- Dudley Percival Budden (fl 1975-1987), engineer: papers rel to career as engineer in LBL cleansing and transport division, incl photos, drawings and calculations 1975-1987 (ARC/2018/19)
- Cumbria Industrial History Society: slides rel to water and corn mills c1960-2005 (DDX 3230)
- Harry Limbert (1918-2003), engineer, Leicester and Quorn: writings and notes rel to local history and customs c1890-1999 (DE9597)
- W H Radford & Son, civil engineers, Nottingham: records incl accounts, deeds and corresp c1880-1960 (9352)
- S Clifford Doughty (fl c1940-1949), engineer, Balfour Beatty: detailed photograph album of the building of the Churchill Barriers connecting the South Isles of Orkney c1940-1949 (AccNo 2431)
- Martha Adams (fl 1815-1906), of Shrewsbury and Christchurch: reminiscences incl encounters with young Charles Darwin 1978 (9498)
- Frank Beamond (1870-1941), farmer and inventor: unpublished paper Invention of the Caterpillar Track: Frank Beamond and his Patents 2014 (9439)
- P W Taylor (fl 1801-1925), mining engineer and surveyor: plans and drawings 19th-20th cent (9512)
- Lockheed Precision Products Ltd, aircraft hydraulics manufacturers: aerial photograph of Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co factory and papers rel to wartime bomb damage c1940-1959 (PH 1323)
National
- Sarah Bunney (fl 1969-2015), scientist: working papers 1969-2015 (Add MS 89312)
- John Purdy (1773-1843), hydrographer: corresp, with lieut John Evans (fl 1828-1835), Royal Navy, and lieut Bisschop Greevelink (fl 1837-1838), Dutch Royal Navy, rel to observations, charts and views for publication or incorporation in future editions of his charts and sailing instructions 1828-1838 (Add MS 89301)
- Frederick George Keys (1885-1976), Major, American physical chemist: album of record photographs of the American Expeditionary Force Chemical Warfare Laboratory in Puteaux, France 1914-1939 (2018-10-02)
- Elisha Dobree (1756-1844), St Peter Port Douzanier and amateur meteorologist: journals of weather observation, shipping movements and island affairs 1777-1817 (AQ 1572)
- Warren de la Rue (1815-1889), chemist and astronomer: research papers of David Le Conte rel to Warren De La Rue 19th-20th cent (AQ 1555, AQ 1556, AQ 1557, AQ 1559)
- David Gow (b1957), bioengineer: oral history recording covering his career 2018 (Acc18/014)
- Hugh Percival Wilkins (1896-1960), astronomer and author: corresp regarding awards, publications and visits to overseas observatories, and draft copies of publications and lecture notes (REG18/000151.6 to .11)
- Hancock family of Marlborough: business and research papers c1800-2000 (HANC)
- Joseph Clement (1779-1844), engineer: notebook containing notes to form a credo as a statement of intent and moral compass 1793-1798 (MS/1935)
- C M Quillan (fl 1922), engineer: ms reports on the Poulsen Arc Generator and small wireless telephone 1922 (MS/2191)
- Frederic Strickland (1868-1934), Major, and civil engineer: collection of engineering drawings of early petrol car engines c1900-1920 (STR)
- British Aircraft Corporation: records rel to the construction and test flights of the Concorde 002 prototype aircraft 1960-1979 (CONC)
- British Aircraft Corporation: material rel to Skylark sounding rocket, primarily to the development of Attitude Control Units 1961-1972 (MS/2198)
- WF Stanley & Co Ltd, surveying equipment manufacturers: drawings and technical information rel to the output of the business 1923-1987 (STAN3)
- Royal Air Force Wireless Experimental Establishment: monthly technical reports incl details of experiments undertaken 1918-1919 (MS/2190)
- Alexander Calder (1898-1976), engineer and sculptor: material rel to 'The Flying Colours of the United States' aircraft decal design commissioned by Braniff International Airways 1975 (TGA 20181/31)
Special
- William Archibald Macfadyen (1893-1985), petrologist and geologist: fieldbooks, datacards and administration files principally rel to work for the Nature Conservancy 1948-1972 (LDGSL/39)
- Alan Gilbert Smith (1937-2017), geologist: records incl scientific papers, corresp and field notes covering his entire career incl work on continental drift and the palaeogeography of the Earth c1955-2016 (LDGSL/1109)
- Basil Charles Roy Burford (fl 1968-1972), mechanical engineering teacher: records 1968-1972 (2018_001)
- Denis C Howroyd (fl 1970-2015), electrical engineer: corresp rel to HS2 2014-2018 (SC MSS 305)
- Eric Stanley Megaw (1908-1956), physicist, developer of the magnetron: personal papers incl corresp and material rel to amateur radio transmissions 1908-1994 (SC MSS 307)
- Alyse Tomlinson-Lee (fl 1922-1934), electricty showroom demonstrator: papers incl corresp rel to her career, and documents rel to membership of the Women's Electrical Association 1924-1935 (SC MSS 306)
- Frank Wainwright (1924-2017), electrical engineer: reminiscences rel to his career at Metropolitan-Vickers c1940-1950 c2000 (SC MSS 299)
- Ernest Frederick George Watson (fl 1958-1988), field engineer: personal papers and work diaries rel to work at South Eastern Electricity Board 1958-1988 (SC MSS 298)
- John Godfrey Wilson West (fl 1948-2000), consultant engineer: papers incl corresp and papers rel to technical conferences 1950-2009 (SC MSS 301)
- YearCo Ltd, engineering, London: board meeting minutes, agenda papers and material rel to Year of Engineering Success (YES) campaign 1996-1998 (NAEST 291)
- Birmingham and District Electric Club: records incl AGM reports, published histories, and financial papers and accounts primarily rel to the closure of the club 1979-2005 (NAEST 294)
- Barbara Rosemary Grant (b1936), evolutionary biologist: films (6) made with Peter Raymond Grant during research trips in the Galapagos, designed for educational purposes 2014 (Accession 2018/03)
- Peter Raymond Grant (b1936), evolutionary biologist: films (6) made with Barbara Rosemary Grant during research trips in the Galapagos, designed for educational purposes 2014 (Accession 2018/03)
- Guy Blythman (fl 1969-2018), mills researcher: technical photographs of interiors of surviving English windmills 1986-2018 (TECH)
- James Bowman & Sons Ltd, mill owners, Hitchin: ledgers, plans, drawings, correspondence and photos rel to history of Whitley Bridge Mill 1904-2017 (WBMC)
- Wollaston family of Dereham and Chislehurst: papers incl corresp c1800-2000 (MS/933)
- Sir Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944), knight, physicist: papers incl notebooks, corresp and patents 1851-1971 (MS/928)
- Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), Knight, politician and lawyer: papers rel to scientific instruments 1910 (MM/24/30-31)
- James Mackenzie Davidson (1856-1919), pioneer in radiology: professional corresp and papers on radiology research 1886-1926 (MS/929)
- Denis Henry Desty (1923-1994), scientist and inventor: papers c1960-1990 (DHD)
- Geoffrey Eglinton (1927-2016), chemist and earth scientist: papers c1960-2000 (GE)
- Desmond George King-Hele (b1927), physicist and author: papers incl research into satellite orbits and launchers, history of science research, poetry and student work c1930-2000 (DKH)
- David Edward Hugh Jones (1938-2017), chemist and author: papers incl photographic material and objects rel to science communication, Napoleon's wallpaper and a chemical space garden 1959-2017 (DEJ)
- Colin Tevor Pillinger (1943-2014), planetary scientist: papers on space research, primarily on lunar samples 1966-1983 (MS/926)
- Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988), ethologist: papers incl photographs, research and corresp, and rel to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Group, complied by Lawrence Shaffer (b1947), zoologist 1968-1990 (MS/924)
- Martin Figg (fl 1983-1995), general manager of Mitchell Hydraulics Division, Ferranti Instrumentation Ltd: records rel to the running of the business, incl early outline and structure of the company and the manufacturing of precision hydraulic components c1983-1995 (2018-21)
- Hubert Thorn Gooding (1903-1988), chief testing engineer, British Insulated Callender's Cables (BICC): research work enabling the detection of faults in high tension cables laid in streets and coal mines, without having to dig up lengths of cable to find the fault 1930-1970 (2018-366)
- Christopher Rice Pyle (fl 1930-1932), clerk of works at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: drawings and blueprints for patented medical equipment c1930-1932 (SBHG2018/19)
- UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council: papers c2000 (SA/UKB)
- Mike Hales (fl 1970-2018), activist: personal papers rel to radical science 20th cent (ACC275)
University
- Bristol University Physical Society: papers incl minutes 1901-1969 (DM2766; DM2768)
- Bristol University, Long Ashton Research Station: addtl material 1912-1956 (DM2759)
- John Fleetwood Baker (1901-1985), Baron Baker of Windrush, scientist, Professor of Mechanical Engineering: speech given at Rossall School 1962 (MS Add.9750/294)
- Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912), Knight, mathematician and astronomer: Mathematical Tripos and Trinity College exam and problem papers 19th cent (MS Add.10241)
- Sir Ralph Howard Fowler (1889-1944), Knight, mathematician: family and administrative papers c1914-1944 (MS Add.10240)
- Stephen William Hawking (1942-2018), mathematician, cosmologist and author: first American edition with ms corrections of A Brief History of Time c1980 (MS Add.1043)
- William Kemp (1788-1864), engineer and businessman: corresp, incl letters from Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist, and Robert Chambers (1802-1871), publisher 1840-1861 (MS Add.10252)
- John Wilfred Linnett (1913-1975), chemist and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge: papers c1913-1975 (MS Add. 10215)
- Donald Lynden-Bell (1935-2018), theoretical astrophysicist: scientific and administrative papers c1960-2018 (MS Add.10284)
- William Fleetwood Sheppard (1863-1936), barrister and civil service examiner: mathematical papers (MS Add.10267)
- Institute of Food Research: Low Temperature Research Station and related papers 20th cent (MS Add.10242)
- Christopher Berry (fl 2015–2018), physicist & astronomer: papers rel to detection of gravitational waves 2015–2018 (MISC 110)
- Edward Samuel Shire (1908-1978), physicist: papers and photographs created during his Bursarship and Fellowship at Kings College, Cambridge 1934-1976 (KCAR/2/Shire, CMR/260)
- Cyril Hilsum (fl 1943-1982), physicist: corresp rel to the potential of Spear & Le Comber's amorphous silicon research 1975-1982 (MS 429)
- Dundee University, Physics Department: records incl corresp, lecture papers and articles rel to development and potential uses of amorphous silicon 20th cent (ACC 18/1020)
- Michael Leopold George Gardner (1946-2013), biochemist and physiologist: family and research papers, slides and photographs 20th cent (SC-Acc-2018-0160)
- Sir John Jackson (1851-1919), Knight, civil engineer: additional papers incl corresp, visitor books for his ship, diary (1911), press cuttings and photographs c1900-1930 (Coll-1490)
- Delphine Mary Vera Parrott (1928-2016), Professor of Immunology: corresp, articles and photographs 1951-2016 (4205)
- Keith Vickerman (1933-2016), Regius Professor of Zoology: additional papers c1960-2016 (4232)
- John Naden (1941-2017), teacher and former student at Leicester University: memorabilia of student life c1960-1969 (ACC 2018/1)
- Dennis Walsh (1933-2005), astronomer: student physics notebooks 1950-1953 (SLN/17)
- Stephen Brown (fl 1957-2007), Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering: lecture notes, biographical papers and records rel to Professor Rex Coates (1920 -2004), first professor and head of civil engineering at the university 1939-2017 (MS 1006: acc 2909)
- Peter Mansfield (1933-2017), physicist, winner of 2003 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine: papers incl corresp, files rel to meetings and conferences, diaries and published papers 1959-1996 (PPM: acc 2964)
- Norbert Abeles (b1923), mechanical engineer: personal account of career as a further education lecturer and College Principal in Nigeria, Kenya and Malawi c1956-1994 (Accession 1706)
- David Alexander Graham (1878-1957), joiner and clerk of works: student drawings, examination papers and notes for classes in carpentry and joinery, construction and geological drawing at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, Glasgow, some material produced by Menzies Graham (b1910), civil engineer and town planner 1906-1934 (Accession 1690)
- Frederick Penny (1816-1869), chemist: lecture notes taken by unidentified student 1859-1862 (OM/474)
- Vera Fretter (1905-1992), molluscan anatomist, Professor: notebooks containing notes, observations and drawings on molluscs, with images rel to her work c1955-1970 (MS 5659)
- Franklin Sibley (fl 1967-1968), Vice Chancellor and Professor, University of Reading: draft typescript "Geophysics for Geology Students", 2 vols written by T C F Sibley, incl corresp with Professor F. H. T. Rhodes, Department of Geology, University of Wales 1967-1968 (MS 5657)
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