Electricity
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Electricity, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/17
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on electricity. Special topics include 'animal electricity' and magnetism. There are several minor diagrams.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Electricity, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/36
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Electricity showrooms: Willesden Lane, 1935-1937
File
Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/9
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1935-1937
Lecture Notes of John Robison
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents
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.
It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.
Dates:
c1779-c1801
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 5, 1785
Item
Identifier: Coll1371/5
Scope and Contents
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Dates:
1785
Letter from the University of Aberdeen to My Dear Sir
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1404
Scope and Contents
Letter on 4 sides (113mm x 179mm), dated 24 June 1869? from J.W. Pirie ? at the University of Aberdeen to 'My Dear Sir'.
The letter refers to Galvanism and an analogy made by the unknown correspondee and to how Pirie objects to the analogy. The letter refers to an argument from Oliphant? and how the correspondee's argument 'is ingenious'.
The letter refers to Galvanism and an analogy made by the unknown correspondee and to how Pirie objects to the analogy. The letter refers to an argument from Oliphant? and how the correspondee's argument 'is ingenious'.
Dates:
1869
Papers relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1930-1939
Series
Identifier: PJM/WBC/A
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of:
a general conditions of contracts pamphlet, 1930
tender papers for Kensal Rise Junior School, 1938
specifications of works for Chamberlayne Road Senior School, Disraeli Road Baths, stables / stores at Cambridge Mews East, caretaker's cottage at Health Centre no 3, house and office for the superintendent at Willesden New...
Dates:
1930-1939
Photographs relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1935-1938
Series
Identifier: PJM/WBC/C
Scope and Contents
Photographs relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of:
4 black and white photographic prints (12cm x 16cm) of Willesden Cemetery Keeper's House 1938
2 black and white negatives (8cm x 11cm) of Willesden Cemetery Keeper's House 1938
2 black and white photographic prints (16cm x 21cm) of the exterior of the Electricity showrooms on Willesden Lane. 1 is inscribed by the...
Dates:
1935-1938
Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1936-1938
Series
Identifier: PJM/WBC/B
Scope and Contents
Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of:
Percy Road School, Kilburn, proposed alterations and additions (6 plans), 1938
nursery school at Curzon Crescent, NW10 (4 plans), 1937
house at Ridge, Herts (2 plans), 1937
Municipal Hospital: extension to existing nurses home (1 plan), 1938
Wesley Road School: proposed gymnasium and...
Dates:
1936-1938
Willesden Borough Council, 1930-1938
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: PJM/WBC
Scope and Contents
Papers, plans and photographs collected by Percy Johnson-Marsahll while employed as Assistant Architect at Willesden Borough Council consists of:
papers concerning proposals, tenders and specifications for for new buildings, 1930-1938
plans for a variety of local council buildings, 1936-1938
photographs of a variety of local council buildings, 1935-1938
...
Dates:
1930-1938