Search our collection

View:

Filter search

The life and work of Alexander Melville [1883-1971] and his invention in patenting the Rigmel cloth shrinking m/c and further development in textile shrinking / Jim Melville. 1971. [Photocopy of typescript history, including copy photographs, press cuttings etc. Author was subject's brother]

The life and work of Alexander Melville 1883-1971

1971

George Hinde Nisbett .... Cable Engineer 1866-1940 / E.W.P. Jones, ca.1980. [Xeroxed, privately published biography (30p.) by Jones of BICC plc. Includes numerous appendices including his address as chairman to the Liverpool sub-centre of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, several obituaries, and a list of his patents]

George Hinde Nisbett .... Cable Engineer 1866-1940 / E.W.P. Jones

circa 1980

William Henry Fox Talbot. Pioneer of photography and man of science [ts. draft of published biography] / H.J.P. Arnold. c.1976. [Original (pre-editing) draft of Arnold's biography, and including some material edited out of the published book published by Hutchinson Benham in 1977. Paginated within chapters. Appendices include genealogical tables and guides to sources, Talbot notebooks and his published works]

[William Henry Fox Talbot. Pioneer of photography and man of science]

circa 1976

Philip Vassar Hunter / E.W.P. Jones, ca.1985. [Xeroxed, privately published biography (92p.) by Jones of BICC plc. Includes numerous appendices including Hunter's address as President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, several obituaries, and the first Hunter memorial lecture. With, tipped in, an ms. note of 11 Jan 1985 from (Peter) Jones to Prof. Gordon Tucker enclosing a complimentary copy of his monograph]

Philip Vassar Hunter / E.W.P. Jones

circa 1985