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Major accessions to repositories in 2023 relating to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research |
Local
- Stella Maris Turk (1925-2017), zoologist, naturalist, and conservationist: correspondence with over one hundred conchologists. Also incl material rel to other non-specialist correspondents, obituaries and biographical notes 20th-21st cent (AD2698)
- John Francis Morgan (fl1953-1962), mechanical engineer: records rel to the updating of colliery infrastructure at Lady Windsor, Cwm, Tymawr, Nantgarw, and Tynant, covering ropeways, conveyors, wagons, rails and pumping 1953-1962 (D1932)
- Victor Cyril Sessin, (1939-2012), engineer: papers incl corresp, calculations and drawings 1942-2015 (C DISI)
- Henry Archibald Savill (1925-2021), served with Royal Air Force, working on airborne radar with 23 squadron in the Second World War, resident of Kingston upon Thames: papers incl R.A.F training exercise books, corresp, photographs, diaries and administrative paperwork rel to his entry into the R.A.F during the Second World War c1940 (KHC/2023/041)
- J Green & Partners, motor and general engineers, Stathern: ledger 1944-1949 (DE10691)
- John Evershed (1864-1956), astronomer, and Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949), astronomer and Dante scholar, of High Broom, Moon Hall Road, Ewhurst: copy diaries, photographs and papers relating to Kashmir, where John Evershed was Director of the Kodaikanal Observatory, and relating to Ewhurst, including garden diary and visiting cards from High Broom c1913-2000 (10541)
- Blair & Co., marine engine builders, Stockton-on-Tees: steamers particulars book c1880-1919 (7941)
National
- Kenneth Wootton (1923-2008), engineer: letters and photographs rel to his career with the Burmah Oil Company 1947-2007 (Mss Eur F766)
- Sir Hugh Trowbridge Keeling (1865-1955), engineer: papers rel to his career as an engineer with the Public Works Department, Madras, and Chief Engineer on the construction of New Delhi c1811-1970 (Mss Eur F767)
- Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), civil engineer: journal describing visits to lighthouses in England, Wales and Ireland on behalf of the Commissioners for Northern Lighthouses 1801-1806 (Acc.14576)
- Riddle family of Northumberland: papers of the family, mostly rel to Edward Riddle (1788-1854), mathematician and astronomer, his son John Riddle (1816-1862), headmaster of Greenwich Hospital schools, and Edward Riddle (1845-1907), engineer, incl letters (140) from Edward Riddle (1845-1907) to his wife, Charlotte Jane (Charley) Lucas, sent during numerous cable laying expeditions for which he was often the engineer in charge, 1870-1891, which provide details of life on board ship and ashore in foreign places, and rare first-hand accounts of cable laying operations, in locations incl Singapore, Shanghai, Lisbon, Venice, Suez, Manila and Malta 1831-1891 (REG23/000002 (Uncatalogued))
- Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough: collection of material, incl personal working folders, minutes, company brochures, manuals and other technical material, rel to the development of British built launch vehicles, incl Black Knight and Black Arrow 1955-1972 (ROC)
Special
- Comite International Radio-Maritime (CIRM): book on the history of CIRM for its 90th anniversary; records of meetings, correspondence, constitutional records, anniversary information, photographs and records of companies involved with the committee 1928-2018 (Accession number: 2023-05)
- Peter Musgrove, wind power expert and advocate: publications, papers and photographs relating to the history of wind electricity generation in the UK and worldwide c1975-2023 (MUSG)
- David Elliott, Professor of Technology Policy, expert in renewable energy: papers on renewable energy and energy policy, slides of renewable energy technologies c1975-2023 (ELLI)
- Alastair Graham (1906-2000), malacologist; Elizabeth B. Andrews (d2023), microscopist and malacologist: papers on malacology c1956-2002 (2023/1)
University
- Dr Arthur Gilbertson Hutchison, geologist: papers c1910-1949
- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), mathematician: problem and solution about n-dimensional equilateral triangles 1941-1942 (GBR/0272/AMT/D/19)
- Dr David John Drewrey (b1947), glaciologist and geophysicist: Radio Echo Sounding papers rel to 20-year Radio Echo Sounding Programme, incl reports, correspondence and data dealing with organisation of the programme and documents and data for the interpretation and explanations of Radio Echo Sounding film records 1960-1985 (MS 2345)
- Reginald William James, (1891-1964), physicist: papers relating to the Endurance expedition 1914-16 and biography of expedition leader Ernest Shackleton 1916-1957 (MS 2347)
- Regina Kapeller-Adler (1900-1991), biochemist and Jewish refugee: papers c1930-2020 (Coll-2091 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0124))
- Hannah Dairy Research Institute, Ayr: minutes, administrative papers, corres, reports, scrap and newscutting books, visitors book, photographs 1928-2013 (GLAASC ACCN 00130)
- Glasgow University: papers of the Wellcome Unit/Centre for the History of Medicine and the Department of Social and Economic History 20th-21st cent (GLAASC ACCN 00132)
- Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), mathematician: student notes 1712-1714 (ASC 010)
- Mathematical Association, mathematical education society: two manuscript copy books relating to mensuration and one manuscript manual of 'A Plan of Mathematical Learning Taught in the Royal Academy Portsmouth' by George Mundy, 1792 1792-1815 (Acc 2023/12)
- Wilfred Trotter (1872-1939), neurosurgeon and psychologist: papers c1899-1949 (TROTTER)
- Ahmed Zaky Abushâdy, Egyptian poet, publisher, medical doctor, bacteriologist, bee scientist: patents and related papers for his beekeeping equipment inventions 1919-1921
- Steve Benford, (fl2014-2023), Professor of Computer Science, University of Nottingham: papers relating to the Carolan project 2014-2023 (U)
- Emilie Savage-Smith (b1941), historian of science: papers 1955-2022 (MSS. 22700/1-49)
- John Richardson, civil engineer: notebook compiled by Richardson comprising manuscript notes rel to his employment as a civil engineer, possibly based in Yorkshire 1874-1877 (MS1097)
- Dr Clive Lee (1939-2021), design engineer: archive rel to his research on the 'Exeter Hip', developed in collaboration with NHS surgeon Professor Robin Ling 1940s-2010s (EUL MS 491)
- Cyril Tyler (1911-1996), professor and Vice Chancellor of University of Reading: research and departmental papers, correspondence, photographs c1933-1996
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