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Ambrose Fleming: Notes on James Clerk Maxwell's lectures, 1878-1879

Title: Ambrose Fleming: Notes on James Clerk Maxwell's lectures 1878-1879

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes

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Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-[ongoing]. Records, 1783-1985.

Title: Records, 1783-1985.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, photographs, memoranda, plans, charters, papers. Correspondents and contributors include: Sir David Brewster, James Clerk Maxwell, Mungo Ponton, William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs), and Peter Guthrie Tait.

ArchivalResource: 38 boxes & 35 volumes.

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Alexander Davidson: Student Notebooks, 1857-1860

Title: Alexander Davidson: Student Notebooks 1857-1860

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes

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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. Observations on circumscribed figures having a plurality of foci and radii of various proportions, 1846.

Title: Observations on circumscribed figures having a plurality of foci and radii of various proportions, 1846.

Early paper by Maxwell concerning a method of drawing ovals written when he was just 14 and presented to the Royal Society in his behalf by Professor James D. Forbes. Also includes a brief biography of Maxwell by Donald S. Allen.

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Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir, 1849-1945. Papers, 1856-1939.

Title: Papers, 1856-1939.

The collection includes some correspondence, notebooks, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, etc., 1856-1939. There are extensive series of notebooks which include accounts of experiments on carbon filaments carried out by Fleming when he was adviser to the Edison & Swan Electric Light Co., of tests on electrical and photometric standards carried out in the Pender Laboratory at University College London, and of experiments on valves and other aspects of wireless telegraphy which took place at University College, London and with Marconi at Poldhu in Cornwall (Fleming was associated with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. as scientific adviser from 1899). In 1904 Fleming patented his 'rectifying' valve. This was adopted by the Marconi Co., to whom Fleming's patents had been transferred. Several items in the collection relate to litigation arising from disputes against Fleming's American patent, and to the application, in December 1918, for an extension of the time limit on his British patent. The collection also includes notes for lectures Fleming attended at Cambridge (including 'some brief recollections of Prof. James Clerk Maxwell which I put into writing soon after his death in 1879') and notes for lectures at University College London.

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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. Papers, 1860-1872.

Title: Papers, 1860-1872.

Manuscript notebooks containing exercises for his students and miscellaneous research notes mostly relating to mechanics. Also includies notes and drafts relevant to 'The Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism' (1873), ; one postcard to Sir William Thomson (1872), and notes on the works of leading authorities on mathematics and physics including Arthur Cayley, Franz Neumann, and Simeon Poisson, 1867-1873; bibliography of textbooks mainly on mechanics, [1860-1865].

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes.

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James Clerk Maxwell: Papers, 1879-1931

Title: James Clerk Maxwell: Papers 1879-1931

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope

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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to an unidentified recipient, 1872 Feb. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to an unidentified recipient, 1872 Feb. 16.

Enclosing the certificate of Mr. Pascoe as a candidate for election into the royal society.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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James Clerk Maxwell: Correspondence and Papers, c.1871-1951

Title: James Clerk Maxwell: Correspondence and Papers c.1871-1951

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes

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James Clerk Maxwell: Letters to George Chrystal and other papers, 1874-1885

Title: James Clerk Maxwell: Letters to George Chrystal and other papers 1874-1885

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope

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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. Papers, 1847-1879.

Title: Papers, 1847-1879.

Correspondence and papers, including laboratory and other notebooks; notes of lectures attended; manuscripts of his published works; notes and papers on astronomy, color and optics, electricity and magnetism, geometry, mechanics and dynamics, molecular physics and gases, the properties of matter and general physics. The most extensive and interesting portion of the correspondence (ca. 160 items, 1859-1879) is with Peter Tait. Maxwell and Tait discuss the problems then current in the foundation of mathematical physics -- quaternions, spherical harmonics, and thermodynamic equations, while also including algebraic conundrums and puns and jokes in mathematical symbolism. Correspondents include: Michael Faraday, Lord Kelvin, Charles Tomlinson, and John Tyndall.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes.

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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. Selected correspondence [microform], 1859-1879, (bulk 1867-1879)

Title: Selected correspondence [microform], 1859-1879, (bulk 1867-1879)

Correspondence (bulk dates, 1867-1879) is between Maxwell and some of the most important scientists of his day. The most extensive and interesting portion of the correspondence (ca. 160 items, 1859-1879) is with Peter Tait. Maxwell and Tait discuss the problems then current in the foundation of mathematical physics -- quaternions, spherical harmonics, and thermodynamic equations, while also including algebraic conundrums and puns and jokes in mathematical symbolism. Correspondents include Michael Faraday, Lord Kelvin, Charles Tomlinson, and John Tyndall.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

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Everett, J. D. (Joseph David), 1831-1904. Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1863-1902.

Title: Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1863-1902.

Materials by or relating to Joseph David Everett can be found in the following Series: Manuscripts (General): 6 letters in the Larmor Letters and 2 letters (to Edward Sabine) in the Sabine Letters. Referees Reports: 3 reports by Everett on paper by (i) J. Prestwich, (ii) E. H. Griffiths (iii), A. Findley. 4 joint reports by J. Tyndall, J. C. Maxwell, and W. A. Miller on papers by Everett. Miscellaneous Correspondence: 3 letters to the Royal Society. Archived Papers: 2 papers. Herschel Letters: 1 letter to J. F. W. Herschel. Topic: (1) atmospheric electricity (2) experiments on flexure.

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Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867. Selected papers [microform], 1805-1861.

Title: Selected papers [microform], 1805-1861.

Correspondence and reprints. The correspondence (1805-1861) primarily concerns research in electricity, magnetism, and induction, but also refers to the nature of matter, telegraphy and the laying of the first trans-atlantic telegraph cable, and the importance of scientific cooperation even in times of war. The reprints (1837-1839), inscribed by the authors J. Henry and A. de la Rive, concern electricity and magnetism. Correspondents include Joseph Henry, J. P. Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, Samuel B. Morse, A. de la Rive, and William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin).

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

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Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964,. [Scientific articles collected by Ian Fleming].

Title: [Scientific articles collected by Ian Fleming]. 1772-1919.

Consists of significant articles by Alexander Agassiz, Henry Bessemer, George Boole, James Cook, Charles Coulomb, Humphry Davy, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Joseph Gay-Lussac, Herman Helmholtz, John Herschel, Thomas Huxley, Edward Jenner, J. Clerk Maxwell, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Priestley, and Thomas Young.

ArchivalResource: 131 pieces

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Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944,. Historical papers, [ca. 1400-1899].

Title: Historical papers, [ca. 1400-1899].

Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of mathematicians and other scientists, often dealing with politics and fields other than mathematics. Many of these concern the French Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear ft.(ca. 10,100 items in 31 boxes)

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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1858-1878.

Three A.L.S., one to Tyndall.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. Papers, 1845-1879.

Title: Papers, 1845-1879.

Miscellaneous papers; and 38 letters to his family.

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Franck, James, 1882-1964. Oral history joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck, 1962 July 9 to 14.

Title: Oral history joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck, 1962 July 9 to 14.

This joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Mrs. Bauer, Richard Becker, Raymond Thayer Birge, Max Bodenstein, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Ode Clausius, Edward Condon, Dirk Coster, Richard Courant, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Peter Josef William Debye, Paul Drude, Dymond, Tatiana Ehrenfest, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Walter M. Elsasser, Paul Sophus Epstein, Enrico Fermi, Emil Fischer, Franck James, Walther Gerlach, Ladislas Goldstein, Fritz Haber, George Ellery Hale, Wilhelm Hanle, Werner Heisenberg, Herneck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, David Hilbert, Johan Holtsmark, Hueckel, Christopher Ingold, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Martin Kamen, Felix Klein, Kunsman, Ferdinand Kurlbaum, Irving Langmuir, Max. Theodor Felix von Laue, Philipp Lenard, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Frederick Lindemann, James Clerk Maxwell, Joseph Mayer, Lise Meitner, Robert Andrews Millikan, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Walther Nernst, Mrs. Nordheim, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Friedrich Paschen, Linus Pauling, Max Planck, Robert Wichard Pohl, Georg Quincke, Fritz Reiche, Heinrich Rubens, Carl Runge, H. Seeliger, Emilio Gino Segrè, Arnold Sommerfeld, Johannes Stark, Otto Stern, John T. Tate, Edward Teller, Woldemar Voigt, Otto Warburg, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Wilhelm Westphal, Wilhelm Wien, Windaus, Robert Williams Wood; Berlin Colloquium in Physics, Berliner Physikalische Gesellschaft, Physikalische-Technische Reichsanstalt (Berlin), University of California at Berkeley, Universität Berlin, Universität Giessen, Universität Göttingen, and Universität Heidelberg.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 115 p.

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