Willis Papers 1939-1963

National Graphical Association

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The National Graphical Association was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Typographical Association and the London Typographical Society. During the 1960s a number of smaller trade unions transferred their engagements to the National Graphical Association. These were the Association of Correctors of the Press in 1965, the National Union of Press Telegraphists in 1965, the National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers in 1967 and the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers...

Willis, Robert

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Robert Willis (1800-1875) was born in London on 27 February 1800. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1822 (B.A., 1826), and was ordained deacon and priest in 1827. He was Jacksonsian Professor of Applied Mechanics at Cambridge, 1837-1875, and a Lecturer in Applied Mechanics at the Government School of Mines from 1853. Willis invented the odonotograph (1837) and cymagraph (1841), and in 1841 published his Principles of mechanism . He also published works on architecture in the M...

London Society of Compositors/London Typographical Society

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Trades Union Congress. General Council

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