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Electricity

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Army notebook, inscribed on cover 'E. V. Appleton ii Lieut [Lieutenant] R. E. Electricity Notes' , c 1914-1921

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/B.1B
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...
Dates: c 1914-1921

Army notebook, with only a few pages and front cover remaining, c.1914-1918

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/B.1A
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c.1914-1918

Black ring-bound notebook, c. 1920-1921

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.5A
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: c. 1920-1921

Electricity, c1780-c1803

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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

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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

Hardback drawing book of graph paper, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.5
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: no date

Hardback notebook, inscribed inside ‘Victor Appleton St John's College, Cambridge. Magnetism and Electricity'., undated (probably before 1919 with some later additions)

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: undated (probably before 1919 with some later additions)

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 5, 1785

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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

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...
Dates: 1930-1939