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Faraday's theory of static induction - a reappraisal: conference paper

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Description: Typescript of conference paper written by David C. Gooding. Includes cover letter dated 1977, April 12 to M. D. Greenwood, librarian at the Burndy Library, in which Gooding writes that the paper, which Gooding read at the Winter meeting of the BSHS [British Society for the History of Science] at Chelsea College on 1977, January 8, was the first part of a longer, more detailed study of Faraday's Experimental Researches, slated for publication.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1977.
Call number: mssHM 83026-83027
Creator: Gooding, David (1947-2009)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

E. B. Hunt and Joseph Henry: conference paper

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Copy of a 12-page conference paper written and presented by Donald deB. Beaver at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Junto [for the History of Science], April 12, 1969. Also includes a one-page typed letter to Bernd Dibner dated May 5, 1969, enclosing the paper and inquiring about materials on Edward Bissell Hunt in the Burndy Library.

mssHM 83066

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Demonstration lectures at Oxford: Keill and Desaguliers: conference paper and essay

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Copy of an 8-page conference paper written by Jon S. Steen and presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Junto [for the History of Science], April 11, 1969, and the 17-page essay by Steen on which it was based. Both manuscripts address the role of the demonstration lecture, a popular type of public instruction in London in the early 18th century, in the popularization of science. Also includes typed letter to Bern Dibner dated 1969, May 26, discussing Dibner's request for a copy of the Junto paper.

mssHM 83094

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The history of science and technology in America: two bibliographies

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The typescript contains two bibliographies compiled by Gregor D. Smith. The first bibliography was intended as an aid to researchers working at the Burndy Library, and the second as a listing of then-recent books and periodical articles, to be used to support research and to develop library collections in the history of science in the United States. Also includes a three-page cover letter written by Smith to Bern Dibner, dated 1977, August 22.

mssHM 82725-82726

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"Paper Pools is the most recent major group of works by David Hockney, demonstrating his fascination with new techniques in the service of his passionate pursuit of creative representation. In 1976, Hockney had become obsessed with the technique of coloured etching, which he had been taught by the French print-maker Aldo Crommelynck and which resulted in the Blue Guitar series, among other inventive works. Now Hockney has applied himself with infectious enthusiasm to the making of Paper Pools, in which painting and paper-making are totally fused"--Preface.

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British electrical industry lag: 1882-1888: conference paper

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Copy of a 26-page typescript for a conference paper written and delivered by Thomas Parke Hughes at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1960, accompanied by an abstract, conference agenda, and letter from Hughes to Bern Dibner dated 1960, December 6, noting that Dibner was to be the session's commentator.

mssHM 83031-83032

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Herbert McLean Evans letters to Bern Dibner

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Three letters written by Herbert McLean to Bern Dibner. In one letter, dated 1954, November 24, Evans proposes that Dibner print a catalogue of 289 works that Evans and his colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley Institute of Experimental Biology have deemed "the chief works or classics in the history of science." In a letter dated 1955, June 18, Evans mentions a shipment of Burndy Library duplicates. An undated letter is a social invitation to Dibner. Also included is a photograph of Bern Dibner and Herbert Evans, taken at Evans's home and dated November, 1952; the photograph includes a handwritten caption by Evans on verso dated 1952, November 16.

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Faraday's theory of static induction - a reappraisal: conference paper

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