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      Acoustics

      • UF Acoustic waves
      • UF Sound
      • UF Vibrations
      • UF Onde acoustique
      • UF Onde sonore
      • UF Son
      • UF Vibration
      • UF Audio
      • UF Onda acústica
      • UF Onda sonora
      • UF Sonido
      • UF Vibración

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      4 Archival description results for Acoustics

      West Lecture Notes
      GB 0103 MS ADD 243 · c. 1731

      Notes of lectures delivered in Cambridge by Nicholas Sanderson. Subjects covered include hydrostatics, tides, sounds, optics, mechanics and astronomy.

      West , John , fl 1731
      Waller family papers
      GB 1530 D11 · c1890-1969

      Papers of Dr Mary Désirée Waller, 1908-1969; comprising personal correspondence, photographs and papers relating to her education, research and teaching at Bedford College and the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women (LSMW), 1908-1952, comprising:
      note on the establishment of Bedford College Science Demonstration Club, c1908;
      papers on the life and work of her father, Professor Augustus D Waller (1856-1922), head of the University of London Physiological Laboratory and lecturer at LSMW, particularly his discovery of the electrocardiogram in 1887, and her mother, Alice (née Palmer) a former student at LSMW;
      notes for speeches by Waller, mainly at LSMW Prizegivings and dinners;
      scrapbook, 1912-1952, containing notes, offprints of articles, correspondence, press cuttings, including papers on Waller's appearance on BBC Television in 1937 and 1938, giving a demonstration of the properties of frozen carbon dioxide;
      correspondence, papers and proofs relating to the posthumous publication of Waller's book Chladani Figures, A Study in Symmetry, 1957-1969; including correspondence between Waller's literary Executor, Dr Bertha Turner and the publishers, G Bell & Sons, London and with the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine on income from the book being credited to the Augustus and Alice Waller Research Fund, 1960-1969;
      photographs of the Waller and Palmer families, c1890-1949, figures and illustrations for books.

      Waller , Mary Désirée , 1886-1959 , physicist Waller , Augustus Desiré , 1856-1922 , physiologist
      Prout, William (1785-1850)
      GB 0120 MSS.4011-4019 · Collection · 1809-[1840]

      Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1809-[1840], including on the growth of plants, polarity theory and the history of physic.

      Prout , William , 1785-1850
      GB 0098 KO · Created 1953-1999 (ongoing)

      Records relating to Interdisciplinary Centres and Courses of Imperial College, 1953-1992, including Acoustic and Vibration Science course brochures, undated; proposed Centre for Economic Policy Studies, [1980] (KO);
      papers of the Robotics and Automated Systems Centre, comprising correspondence on the establishment of the centre, 1981-1982; course leaflets, press cuttings, 1984 (KOA); papers relating to the Centre for Composite Materials, including course leaflets, press cuttings, annual report, 1992-1999 (KOC); papers relating to joint courses with the London School of Economics, including minutes of the Joint Committee, 1953-1967; Rector's correspondence, 1956-1967 (KOE); papers relating to Energy Studies, 1979-1981 (KOF); Geotechnical Engineering courses leaflets, 1982-1984 (KOG); papers relating to the Centre for Remote Sensing, including correspondence, 1981; journal, 1981-1984; newsletters, 1981-1984; press cuttings (KOR); papers relating to Science of Materials research and postgraduate courses, including research reports, 1963-1968 (KOS); papers relating to the Centre for Environmental Technology, including course brochures, 1976-1993; annual reports, 1978-1986; research reviews, 1979-1990; newletters, 1977-1987; Rectors' correspondence, 1974-1982; working party papers, 1974-1975 (KOT).

      Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine