Scope and Contents Army notebook, inscribed on cover 'E. V. Appleton ii Lieut [Lieutenant] R. E. Electricity Notes' , c.1914-1921.Both ends of the item are used. At the front of the notebook, there are notes on electricity and magnetism, perhaps for lectures during First World War. In the middle, there is a sequence of pages (some numbered) of experiments on 'Oscillator with Leaking Grid Condenser', at Cambridge, 1920-21 (not all in Appleton's hand). At the rear of the notebook, there are press-cuttings on...

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Army notebook, with only a few pages and front cover remaining, c.1914-1918. Notes on differential equations, perhaps for lectures as Instructor in R. E. Signals [check what this means] during First World War.

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Black ring-bound notebook, c.1920-1921. The item contains notes and narratives of experiments on atmospherics and on Aperiodic Impulses. The work begins July 12 [1920] and continues to April 17 [1921].

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Volume contains manuscript notes on electricity. Special topics include 'animal electricity' and magnetism. There are several minor diagrams.

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Volume contains manuscript notes on electricity. Special topics include conductors, dissipation, 'medical' and 'animal' electricity, and thunder. Of special interest is a long epistolary account of a country house seriously damaged by lightning.

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Copy of a set of 3 architectural plans (67cm x 90cm) for the electricity showrooms in Willesden Lane, Willesden. There are detailed plans by the borough engineer and architect F Wilkinson made in 1935, and a fair copy of these made by borough engineer F Wayman Brown in 1937. F Wayman Brown (at this point deputy borough engineer) was also responsible for interior details in 1937. Percy Johnson-Marshall was the draftsman for the details.

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The item is a Hardback drawing book of graph paper, undated, c.1920. Both ends of the item are used. At the front there are graphs and calculations of valves and oscillators. At the rear are 12 monthly graphs, labelled January-December.

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Hardback notebook, inscribed inside ‘Victor Appleton St John's College, Cambridge. Magnetism and Electricity', undated (probably before 1919 with some later additions). Both ends of the notebook are used. It contains notes and calculations, perhaps of undergraduate work (Appleton usually signed himself ‘E.V. Appleton' after 1919). Some notes on negative ions, ionisation, etc. may be of a later date.

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Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

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Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.