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History of Polyethlyene Material
PART OF:
Material relating to work on High Pressure Engineering and polyethelyne
Made:
1936-1984
part of archive:
Manning Archive
maker:
Manning, William Reginald Dermot
Details
Identifier:
MANN/C/06
Access:
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Manning Archive
MANN/A Diaries of William Reginald Manning
MANN/A/01 Diary for 1935
MANN/A/02 Diary for 1936
MANN/A/03 Diary for 1937
MANN/A/04 Diary for 1938
MANN/A/05 Diary for 1939
MANN/A/06 Diary for 1940
MANN/A/07 Diary for 1942
MANN/A/08 Diary for 1943
MANN/A/09 Diary for 1945
MANN/A/10 Diary for 1947
MANN/A/11 Diary for 1948
MANN/A/12 Diary for 1949
MANN/A/13 Diary for 1950
MANN/A/14 Diary for 1951
MANN/A/15 Diary for 1952
MANN/A/16 Diary for 1953
MANN/A/17 Diary for 1954
MANN/A/18 Diary for 1955
MANN/A/19 Diary for 1956
MANN/A/20 Diary for 1957
MANN/A/21 Diary for 1958
MANN/A/22 Diary for 1959
MANN/A/23 Diary for 1960
MANN/A/24 Diary for 1961
MANN/A/25 Diary for 1962
MANN/A/26 Diary for 1963
MANN/B Sidney Sussex College Material
MANN/B/01 Paper entitled 'On the Design of Fly-Wheels'
MANN/B/02 Book entitled 'Resistance des Materiaux et Elements de la Theorie Mathematique de L'Elasticite'
MANN/C Material relating to work on High Pressure Engineering and polyethelyne
MANN/C/01 Notes on various pressure engineering subjects
MANN/C/01/01 Envelope of notes entitled 'Overstrain of Spheres'
MANN/C/01/02 Envelope of notes entitled 'Cylinders'
MANN/C/01/03 Folder of notes on pressure vessels
MANN/C/01/04 Envelope of notes entitled 'Bending'
MANN/C/01/05 Folder of notes on Ros & Eichinger's Stress
MANN/C/01/06 Envelope of notes entitled 'Miscellaneous includes Brinell'
MANN/C/01/07 Envelope of notes entitled 'Tension & Basic Curves'
MANN/C/01/08 Envelope of notes entitled 'Torsion'
MANN/C/01/09 Folder of notes on bending and compression
MANN/C/01/10 Folder of notes on thick spheres
MANN/C/01/11 Folder of notes on stress strain relations
MANN/C/01/12 Folder of notes on tension
MANN/C/01/13 Folder of notes on torsion
MANN/C/01/14 Folder of notes on cylinders
MANN/C/01/15 Notebook containing calculations
MANN/C/01/16 Notebook containing costings
MANN/C/01/17 Folder of notes on stress and strain theory
MANN/C/01/18 Folder of notes entitled 'MS Diagrams etc "Overstrain of Tubes"'
MANN/C/01/19 Folder of notes entitled 'Welwyn H. P. Equipment'
MANN/C/01/20 Folder of notes on cylinder diameter and bursting pressures
MANN/C/01/21 Envelope of notes entitled 'Intensifier Sketch'
MANN/C/01/22 Folder of notes and correspondence relating to very high pressure vessels
MANN/C/01/23 Folder entitled 'Autofrettage Miscellaneous
MANN/C/02 Drafts and unpublished proofs of papers and articles by W.R.D. Manning
MANN/C/02/01 Folder of draft copies of a paper entitled 'The Strength of Cylinders'
MANN/C/02/02 Folder of draft copies of a paper entitled 'The Strength of Cylinders'
MANN/C/02/03 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'High Pressure Joints'
MANN/C/02/04 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'Design of Elastic Cylinders to Resist High Internal Pressures'
MANN/C/02/05 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'Design of Containers for Semi-Continuous Hydrostatic Extrusion Machine'
MANN/C/02/06 Draft of a paper entitled 'Design of Pressure-Resisting Cylinders under Creep Conditions'
MANN/C/02/07 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'High Fluid Pressure in Industry'
MANN/C/02/08 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'Design for a Pressure Vessel with Quick-Opening Lid, Suitable for Service at 10 Kilobars (145,000 p.s.i.)
MANN/C/02/09 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'The Design of Cylinders: A Retrospective'
MANN/C/02/10 Envelope of draft copies of Bursting Pressure as the Basis of Cylinder Design
MANN/C/02/11 Folder containing several copies of a paper entitled 'Bursting Pressure as the Basis of Cylinder Design'
MANN/C/02/12 Folder containing a draft copy of Bursting Pressure as the Basis of Cylinder Design, notes and correspondence
MANN/C/02/13 Envelope containing material relating to a proof copy of 'Bursting Pressure as the Basis for Cylinder Design'
MANN/C/02/14 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'The Development of Kilobar Pressure Equipment'
MANN/C/02/15 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'The Autofrettage of Irregular Shapes'
MANN/C/02/16 Folder containing a draft copy of a paper entitled 'Strip-Wound Pressure Vessels'
MANN/C/03 Manning Published Papers
MANN/C/03/01 Paper entitled 'The Wave-Ring Joint'
MANN/C/03/02 Paper entitled 'The Overstrain of Tubes by Internal Pressure'
MANN/C/03/03 Paper entitled 'Combined Soda Ash and Muriate maufacture a Possible "Solid-Seperation" Process'
MANN/C/03/04 Paper entitled 'Design of Cylinders by Autofrettage'
MANN/C/03/05 Copy of The Times Science Review
MANN/C/03/06 Copy of The Rubber Age and Synthetics Vol 34 No 7
MANN/C/03/07 Copy of British Power Engineering
MANN/C/03/08 Paper entitled 'High Pressure Engineering'
MANN/C/03/09 Paper entitled 'The Basic Design of High Pressure Vessels and Plant and Some Considerations of the Ultimate Strength of Thick-walled Cylinders of Hight Tensile Material'
MANN/C/03/10 Copy of Extrait de la revue Industrie Chimique Belge Science
MANN/C/03/11 Paper entitled 'Ultra-high Pressure Vessel Design Part 1 and Part 2'
MANN/C/03/12 Paper entitled 'How Strong is a Cylinder?'
MANN/C/03/13 Copy of High Temperature High Pressure
MANN/C/03/14 Paper entitled 'Design for a pressure vessel 20 litres capacity with quick-opening lid suitable for service at 10 kbar'
MANN/C/03/15 Paper entitled 'The Development of Kilobar Pressure Equipment from the Laboratory to the Industrial Scale'
MANN/C/03/16 Copy of Transactions of the ASME
MANN/C/04 Published papers by other authors
MANN/C/04/01 Copy of an article from Engineering entitled 'The Strength of Thick Hollow Cylinders Under Internal Pressure'
MANN/C/04/02 Reprint of a paper entitled 'De Ontwikkeling der Warmteleer Door Middel van Hooge Drukken'
MANN/C/04/03 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Measurement of the Viscosity of Gases at High Pressures - The Viscosity of Nitrogen to 1000 ATMS'
MANN/C/04/04 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Calibration of a Pressure Balance in Absolute Units'
MANN/C/04/05 Book entitled 'The Viscosity of Gases at High Pressures'
MANN/C/04/06 Reprint of two papers from Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
MANN/C/04/07 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Influence of Pressure on a Number of Organic Reactions in the Liquid Phase'
MANN/C/04/08 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Latent Energy Remaining in a Metal after Cold Working'
MANN/C/04/09 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Influence of Pressure on the Electrical Resistance of Hard Drawn Cold Wire in Different Stages of Annealing and of Soft Gold Wire'
MANN/C/04/10 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Contribution to the Theory of the Influence of Pressure on the Electrical Resitance of Metals'
MANN/C/04/11 Reprint of two papers entitled 'Isotherms of CO2 between 0O and 150O and Pressures from 16 to 250 ATM (AMAGAT Densities 18-206)' and 'Isotherms of CO2 between 70 and 3000 Atmospheres (AMAGAT Densities between 200 and 600)
MANN/C/04/12 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Effect of Pressure up to 12,000 kg/cm2 on reactions in solution'
MANN/C/04/13 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Isotherms of Ethylene between 0O and 150O and at Pressures from 20 to 270 ATM'
MANN/C/04/14 Reprint of two papers entitled 'Series Evaluation of the Isotherm Data of CO2 between 0 and 150OC and up to 3000 atm' and 'The Isotherms of CO2 in the Neighbourhood of the Critical Point and Round the Coexistence Line'
MANN/C/04/15 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Thermodynamic Properties of CO2 up to 3000 Atmospheres between 25 and 150OC'
MANN/C/04/16 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Compresibilities of Deuterium between 0OC and 150OC up to 3000 Atmospheres'
MANN/C/04/17 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Melting Point of Mercury and the Triple Point of Carbon Dioxide as Auxiliary Fixed Points for the Temperature Scale'
MANN/C/04/18 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Melting Line of Carbon Dioxide up to 2800 Atmospheres'
MANN/C/04/19 Reprint of a paper entitled 'The Melting Line of Mercury up to 3000 Atmospheres'
MANN/C/04/20 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Isotherms of Ethylene up to 3000 Atmospheres between 0OC and 150OC'
MANN/C/04/21 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Thermodynamical Properties of Ethylene under Pressure up to 3000 Atmospheres and Temperatures between 0O and 150OC Tabulated as Functions of Denisty'
MANN/C/04/22 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Investigation of Fractures Produced by Transient Stress Waves'
MANN/C/04/23 The Time 'Review of the Progress of Science'
MANN/C/04/24 Lecture entitled 'The Properties of Matter at High Pressure'
MANN/C/04/25 Reprint a paper entitled 'Design of High Pressure Vessels'
MANN/C/04/26 Book entitled 'The Design and Construction of High Pressure Chemical Plant'
MANN/C/04/27 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Fatigue of think cylinders: further practical information'
MANN/C/04/28 Book entitled 'Hydrostatic Extrusion'
MANN/C/04/29 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Autofrettage'
MANN/C/04/30 Reprint of a paper entitled 'Creep of Thick-Walled Cylinders Based on Torsion Creep Data for 0.18 Percent Carbon Steel at 400OC'
MANN/C/05 Conference Papers
MANN/C/05/01 Notebook entitled 'Manchester Metallurgical Society'
MANN/C/05/02 Papers for Conference on Design and Materials for Super-Pressure Service
MANN/C/05/03 Paper for Symposium on Internal Stresses in Metals and Alloys
MANN/C/05/04 Paper entitled 'Tubular Bursting Elements'
MANN/C/05/05 Papers from symposium on sealing against pressure and vacuum
MANN/C/05/06 Folder of working papers for high pressure engineering conference
MANN/C/05/07 Papers from Second International Conference on High Pressure Engineering
MANN/C/06 History of Polyethlyene Material
MANN/C/06/01 Book of calculations and notes on the history of Polyethlyene
MANN/C/06/02 Drawing entitled 'Proposed Plant for Production of 100 tons P.A. of "Alketh"'
MANN/C/06/03 File entitled 'Properties of Ethylene'
MANN/C/06/04 Report entitled 'The Development of a Polythene Plant'
MANN/C/06/05 Folder of correspondence drawings and photographs relating to equipment used to produce polyethlyene
MANN/C/06/06 Draft copy of a paper entitled 'Engineering in the Polythene Project'
MANN/C/06/07 Paper entitled 'Engineering in the Polythene Project'
MANN/C/06/08 Paper entitled 'Engineering in the Polythene Project'
MANN/C/06/09 Folder of notes on various polythene subjects
MANN/C/06/10 Folder entitled 'More Polythene'
MANN/C/06/11 Booklet entitled 'The Discovery of Polythene'
MANN/C/06/12 Booklet entitled 'The Discovery of Polythene'
MANN/D Patents
MANN/D/01 Copy of Patent Specification 397,966
MANN/D/02 Patent Specification 736,583
MANN/E ICI Material
MANN/E/01 Correspondence file
MANN/E/02 Reports
MANN/E/02/01 Report entitled 'High Pressure Research at Amsterdam University'
MANN/E/02/02 Report entitled 'Notes on Temperature Stresses'
MANN/E/02/03 Report entitled 'The Bursting Pressure of Thick Cylinders'
MANN/E/02/04 Report entitled 'The Technique used for Conducting Chemical Research at Pressure up to 3000 Atmospheres'
MANN/E/02/05 Report entitled 'The Work Required for the Isothermal Compression of Ethylene'
MANN/E/02/06 Report entitled 'Autofrettage of Gun Barrels'
MANN/E/02/07 Report entitled 'The Bursting Strength of Austenitic Stainless Steel'
MANN/F Loughborough University of Technology Material
MANN/F/01 Folder containing material relating to metal fatigue
MANN/F/02 Booklet entitled 'Some Experiences in the Fatigue of Metals'
MANN/F/03 Report entitled 'Department of Chemical Engineering: The Research Group'
MANN/F/04 Report entitled 'Department of Chemical Engineering: The Aims of the Department'
MANN/F/05 Report entitled 'Department of Chemical Engineering: Note on the Strength of Cylinders'
MANN/F/06 Text of speech entitled 'Some Experiences with Metal Fatigue'
MANN/G Photographs
MANN/H Posthumous material relating to the work of Mannning
MANN/H/01 Printed copy of a paper entitled 'Research in the Plastics Division of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited'
MANN/H/02 Material relating to Percy Reboul
MANN/H/03 Material relating to Charles Swallow
MANN/H/04 CD containing Polyethylene PowerPoint Presentation for the Science Museum
MANN/H/05 Paper entitled 'High Pressure Processing Technology and Equipment Evolution: A Review'
