Manuscripts
Faraday's theory of static induction - a reappraisal: conference paper
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E. B. Hunt and Joseph Henry: conference paper
Manuscripts
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
Manuscripts
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
Manuscripts
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
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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
Manuscripts
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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Davies, David W. (1943 October 15-1944 January)
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The majority of the collection consists of personal letters sent by David William Davies to his wife, Thelma Davies, while working as a librarian and serving in the United States Army Corps during World War II from 1941 through 1947. Most of the letters were sent while Davies was serving in the military, which included his cryptographic preparation at Chanute Field Air Force Base, work at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and his deployment in Europe. The correspondence begins in December 1938 when Davies was an assistant librarian in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Much of the correspondence during this time concerns his wife's health; she was in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Altadena, California. Other common topics include work in the library, social life, and a project renovating a house. In August 1941 the correspondence begins in Logan, Utah where Davies was appointed as librarian at Utah State University, College of Agriculture. As an ambitious librarian, Davies "...made several proposals to the President and the Dean of Education for improving the curriculum in library science, but they do not want to do anything. Well if they do not want to do anything I guess it is all right on account it is their college" (August 21, 1941).
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