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Material collected by Thompson, 1825-1915, and removed from books within the S P Thompson Rare Books collection housed within IET Library. It comprises correspondence (1890-1915) from contemporary physicists and mathematicians such as David James Blaikley, Sir William Henry Blagg, Sir Charles Tilston Bright, Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Henry Smith Carhart, Sir John Ambrose Fleming, Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Oliver Heaviside, Gisbert Kapp, Phillip Kelland, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Henry Preece, Albion T. Snell, Sir William Spottiswoode, and William Thompson, Baron Kelvin; and press cuttings, photographs, engravings, autographs and letters (1870-1916) relating to eminent scientists including Sir Cristopher Wren, Sir Isaac Newton, James Watt, William Herschel, Sir John Flamsteed, Alexander Von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Sir Charles Lyell, William Gilbert, Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley, Alessandro Volta, Sir Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, Sir Charles Wheatstone, James Clerk Maxwell, Josiah Latimer Clark, Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell, Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, and many others.

Papers of Cpt Francis Allen Lister, consisting of a large number of files of engineering and thermodynamic notes. There are also files on a damage control course, 1943, the Senior Officers' Course, War College, 1949 to 1950, and intelligence reports about Nazi Germany, 1947. In addition, there are two physics notebooks, undated, and official service documents. Finally, there are a large number of photographs, some of which relate to the life of Lister's father, Engineer Rear-Admiral Francis Henry Lister (d 1918).

Papers of David Joseph Bohm, 1933-1996, including obituaries on and tributes to Bohm 1992; material collated by F David Peat, a colleague of Bohm, for a biography, 1993-1994, transcripts of interviews, discussions and dialogues with Bohm, mainly on science, philosophy and spirituality, 1982-1992, including the dialogues led by Bohm at seminars at Oak Grove School, Ojai, California, 1987-1992; articles and papers on Bohm's work by other authors, 1981-1996; material directly recording his life and career, 1933-1990 (comparatively slight but includes papers relating to Bohm's difficulties with the House Committee on Un-American Activities 1949-1951); list of Bohm's publications, 1994; drafts by Bohm of papers and lectures, 1965-1993, mostly unpublished, including some drafts on quantum theory, although the bulk are of a philosophical nature; drafts by F D Peat, 1980-1982, drawing on Bohm's work on quantum theory, which were found with the papers; copies of a few of his published works, 1953-1993; reviews of Bohm's books, 1966-1994; general correspondence, 1950-1993, with some 90 correspondents, including photocopies of correspondence with Albert Einstein c1950-1954 relating to quantum theory as well as Einstein's advice on Bohm's career, and other significant correspondents including R Karnette, H M Loewy and M Phillips; photocopies of correspondence on a wide range of philosophical and scientific subjects with the American artist and theorist Charles J Biederman, 1960-1969.