| |
 
|
| |
Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research |
Local
- J C Burrow, photographer, of Camborne: album containing 35 black and white photograph prints of Botallack Mine; external and internal views, scenes include The Crowns engine-house, the mine offices, construction of shafts, building and machinery Early 20th cent (AD3074)
- Arthur Welch, China Clay industry expert: records rel to China Clay working, and in particular Stannon China Clay Works, St Breward c1875-2017 (AD3156)
- Dolcoath Mine, Camborne: 23 plans 19th-20th cent (X1495)
- Bath City Waterworks: photographs, maps, plans, statistical registers, ephemera c1900-2000 (312)
- Ernest Venis (1902-1995), mechanical engineer of Erith: education papers, diary and photographs 1902-1995 (PEVIS)
- Philip W Allen (fl1960), engineer: photograph albums of construction of the Cumberland Basin Bridges Scheme, Hotwells, and the ES & A Robinson tower, Redcliff Street c1960 (46738)
- Lex Vehicle Engineering Ltd, Giltpack Packaging of Totton and Locomotors Ltd., Andover: records of the businesses, incl photographs and publicity material 1930s-2000s (19A22)
- William Philip Hiern (fl1850-1900): North Devon botanical studies, miscellaneous papers and photographs c1850-1900 (B29Z)
- Peter Lees: papers rel to his work at Dounreay and Thurso Technical College incl various nuclear plans, hand-written notes, academic literature, photographs c1950-1980 (GB1741/P1000)
- Dr Fritz Eichmann, physicist, teacher, prisoner of war: corresp and personal papers c1940-1949 (Acc22/17)
- Sir John Fowler (1817-1898), civil engineer: family, estate and business papers, incl letters received from Isambard Kingdom Brunel, J. Scott Russell, also Thomas Telford to Thomas Grahame; two section drawings entitled 'Forth Bridge Railway', apprenticeship indenture, photographs 1833-1916 (X1006)
- George Bennie (1891-1957), owner of George Bennie Airspeed Railway Ltd: books, pamphlets, photocopied material, photographs, corresp, news cuttings, minutes, memoranda, extracts documenting the administrative running of the company with ephemera rel to the construction of the mile long test run in Milngavie 1926-1951 (1,001,057)
- Imeson & Finch, manufacturing and colliery engineers: minutes, staff records, photographs and financial records 1802-1994 (7916)
- Dr Alex Moulton (1920-2012): personal, family, estate and business papers of incl corresp, minutes, accounts, photographs, technical drawings, maps, press cuttings, reports, academic articles, and lectures c1700-2018 (4433)
National
- Human-Computer Learning Foundation, charitable trust; Donald Michie (1923-2007), geneticist and computer scientist; Jean Hayes Michie (1928-2002), psychologist; Rupert Sebastian Macnee (b1947), television producer and artist: the Human-Computer Learning Foundation archive 1993-2010 (Add MS 89496)
- W R Bevan (fl 1900), mining engineer: diary recording a journey to Namibia 1900 (Add MS 89564)
- Thomas Patterson (fl 1873), mining engineer: diary 1873-1874 (Add MS 89593)
- Henry Maurice Surtees Tuckwell (1872-1952), mechanical engineer: journals of visit to United States of America and Canada 1917 (Add MS 89602)
- Vincent Cartledge Reddish (1926-2015), Astronomer Royal for Scotland: papers incl corresp, papers concerning professional appointments, photographs and publications c1930-1999 (Acc.14415)
- Lamson Engineering Co Ltd: company records incl minute books, memoranda and articles of association, correspondence, agreements and reports on formation of the company 1888-1949 (MS/2207)
- Anthony Henry Sevant (1933 - 2015), aerospace engineer: papers rel to work for De Havilland Propeller and Hawker Siddeley Dynamics incl as part of the Blue Streak programme 1954-1973 (MS/2218)
- Philip Keith M'Pherson (1927-2016), mathematician and systems engineer: papers 1950-2010 (PKM)
- David Michael Simpson (1964-2009), aeronautical engineer: material rel to his work on the CHASE (Coronal Helium Abundance Spacelab Experiment) 1970-1985 (MS/2214)
- Peter Donald George Venus Whittingham (1923-1987), expert in survival and aviation and space medicine: papers rel to his work at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine and at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1948-1987 (PWHIT)
- William Reginald Dermot Manning (1903-1984), engineer: collection rel to his work on high pressure engineering and polyethylene research 1930-1962 (MANN)
- Mary Doreen Archer (b1944), scientist and chair of the Science Museum Group trustees: papers incl undergraduate notebooks and essays, thesis, lecture and conference notes 1962-2005 (DMA)
Special
- Women's Engineering Society (WES): records rel to WES Oral History Interviews, incl IET Archives Deposit agreement forms, general information on participants, and WES Centenary Trail Project Recording Agreement forms for interviewees 2019-2021 (UK0108 NAEST 092/20)
- Dr Bernard Crowther (fl1935-1945), engineer: papers rel to the development of cathode ray technology, incl papers relating his thesis, Kennelly charts connected with the impedence and receiving transmissions, development of the cathode ray technology at EMI in Hayes 1935-1945
- Alexander William Sharman 9fl1931-1948), engineer: correspondence to his wife, Florence, incl telegrams from West Park Mental Hospital regarding his health 1931-1948
- Jack Tannett (fl1973-2022), CEng MIMechE, mechanical engineer: photographs and narrative descriptions of the construction of North Sea oil platforms 1973-1977 (Acc 2022/001)
- E Y Connell (d1936), sugar mill engineer: notebook 1880-1929 (SMDN-2022.0038)
- Sir John Ernest Walker, FRS (b1941), chemist: papers, correspondence, and notebooks, rel to his work at the Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and prior material rel to the Dunn Human Nutrition Unit 1970s-2010s (JEW)
- Herbert 'Freddie' Gutfreund, FRS (1921-2021), biochemist and dairyman: papers, incl manuscript notes and records accumulated over the course of his career in physical biochemistry; administrative documents rel to his professional activity at Bristol University, and also with scientific companies, particularly instrument makers; research files rel to history of chemistry and biography of scientists 1945-2012 (HGU)
- Ferranti International plc, electrical engineers: collection compiled by D W Alford rel to the history and development of an oscillogyro at the Ferranti Aircraft Equipment Department, Bracknell and later Ferranti Defence Systems Ltd, Edinburgh 1940-1987 (2022-235)
- Human Genome Organisation: institutional records, incl records rel to the establishment of HUGO, international relations and work, annual reports and accounts, meeting minutes and papers, conference records, and other documents 1980s-2010s (SA/HUG; Acc 2585)
- Professor John Raymond Hobbs (1929-2008), pathologist: papers, incl rel to his work as a professor at the forefront of clinical immunology, protein biochemistry and bone marrow transplantation, pioneering the development of bone marrow transplantation in the UK at Westminster Hospital and establishing the world's first unrelated bone marrow donor register 1970-2001 (PP/JHO; Acc 2666)
University
- Professor Colin James Pennycuick: papers & audio-visual materials c1964-1983 (DM3153)
- Michael Willcox Perrin (1905-1988), knight, scientist: papers relating to work on wartime atomic bomb 20th cent (PERR, acc 2243)
- Gordon Welchman (1906-1985), mathematician, codebreaker: papers rel to work at Bletchley Park 1939-1945 (WLCH, acc 2245)
- Peter Twinn (1917-2004), mathematician, codebreaker, entomologist: papers rel to work at Bletchley Park 1939-1945 (TWNN, acc 2246)
- Sir Aaron Klug (1926-2018), knight, biophysicist and chemist: additional personal and scientific papers 20th-21st cent (KLUG, acc 2236 & 2241)
- Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland (1896-1972), knight, nuclear physicist: papers, correspondence and photographs 20th cent (SCHO, acc 2211)
- Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004), biologist: scientific papers 1953-1969 (Misc 090, acc 2218)
- Dame Athene Margaret Donald (b1953), physicist, university administrator: recordings of talks 21st cent (DNLD, acc 2213 & 2248)
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), mathematician and philosopher: personal and family papers, incl corresp with his wife Lettice Cautley née Baker (1898-1985) psychologist and photographer and her memoir of him, letters to his parents, his diaries, his parents' scrapbook about him and photographs 1903-2020 (FPR)
- Stanley Evans (b1929), physicist: letter to a friend detailing his time undertaking field work in Antarctica 1971 (MS 2333)
- Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), mathematician and theoretical physicist: letters to his friend and fellow Trinity Hall student (3) 1964-1965 (THPP/HAW)
- Alan Fairlamb (b1947) Professor of Biochemistry: material rel to research, prizes, time at the University and an oral history, incl rel to his own research, Life Sciences, establishing the Drug Discovery Unit and the Wellcome building 1980-2022 (ACC 2022/1219)
- Sir John Jackson (1851-1919), civil engineer and engineering contractor: photograph albums, newspaper articles, accounts, postcards, business papers, family papers c1898-1919 (Coll-1490 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0043))
- University of Leicester: Rose Griffiths, Professor of Education: oral history interview relating to career in children's non-fiction (maths resources and texts books) during the late 20th century c1980-2000 (Acc 2022/21 (D))
- William Hodson Brock (b1936), Professor in the History of Science, chemist, historian and author: papers incl correspondence while working as Professor at the University and Director of the Victorian Studies Centre c1950-2022 (Acc 2022/18)
- Wantage Engineering Company, agricultural machinery manufacturers: customer order books 1920-1990 (Acc.DX2374)
- George Green, (1793-1841), miller and mathematician: correspondence and papers relating to George Green collected by Dr J M Rollett (d2015), physicist 1968-2007 (GG)
- Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister (1929-2018), Knight, athlete and neurologist: archive c1900-2021 (MSS. 11527)
- Mainstream Renewable Power, renewable energy company: Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm impact assessment 2012-2018 (Acc 1858)
- Laurie Kazan-Allen (fl1990-2022), coordinator of the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat: research files and publications rel to Kazan-Allen's work in the UK for the British Asbestos Newsletter and to her work for the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat 2017-2018 (Acc 1868)
- Margaret Ann Boden (b1936), OBE FBA, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex: articles, incl drafts and related corresp, covering AI, computer creativity, cognitive science, computer art and other subjects in her field. Also incl notes and slides from talks and workshops and some material rel to her time at Sussex University, as well as corresp with various institutions about work events and trips 1970s-2000s (SxMs215)
- Professor Peter Theodore Landsberg (1922-2010), theoretical physicist: papers incl correspondence, articles and play, copies of publications, copies PhD thesis, report, copies of talks, scrapbooks, certificates, prototypes 1939-2003 (MS459)
|
|
| |
|
|
|
