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Businesses (125)
- A C Potter & Company, Grantham and London Grantham, Lincolnshire;London
- Adam Hilger Ltd, manufacturing opticians and scientific instrument manufacturers London
- Addison Electric Co Ltd, electronic equipment manufacturers London
- Aerocem Ltd
- Ailsa Craig Ltd, diesel engine manufacturers Ashford, Kent
- Anglo-Waldeck Mining Co
- Arthur Guinness Son & Co Ltd, brewers London;Dublin, County Dublin;Gorleston, Norfolk;Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Auto Carriers (1911) Ltd, motor engineers, Thames Ditton Thames Ditton, Surrey
- Bakelite Ltd
- Bakelite Xylonite Ltd Brantham, Suffolk
- Barker & Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd Covent Garden, Middlesex
- Bierrum International Ltd, reinforced concrete engineers, Dunstable Dunstable, Bedfordshire
- Blackburn Aircraft Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Brough, Yorkshire
- Boulton & Fothergill, silversmiths and silverplaters Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Bowling Iron Co Ltd, ironfounders Bowling, Yorkshire
- Bramah & Co, lock makers London
- Brameld & Co, potters Swinton, Lancashire
- British Aircraft Corporation Bristol, Gloucestershire
- British Vacuum Cleaner & Engineering Co Ltd Croydon, Surrey
- British Xylonite Co Ltd, plastics manufacturers, Brantham Brantham, Suffolk
- Bryant & May Ltd, match manufacturers Bow, Middlesex
- C.W. Glover and Partners
- CA Parsons & Co Ltd, electricity generator manufacturers Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland;Heaton, Northumberland
- Cambridge University & Town Gas Light Co Ltd Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Cascelloid Ltd, manufacturers of plastic, Leciester Leicester, Leicestershire
- CF Palmer (London) Ltd London
- Clark, Forde & Taylor, consulting engineers London
- Coach Builders' & Wheelwrights' Art Journal
- Coates and Wright
- Cochran & Co (Annan) Ltd, shipbuilders, engineers and boiler makers Annan, Dumfriesshire;Birkenhead, Cheshire
- Crompton & Co Ltd, electrical engineers Chelmsford, Essex;London
- Crompton Parkinson Ltd
- D Napier & Son Ltd, motor car and aircraft engine manufacturers London
- David Kirkaldy & Son, testing and experimenting works London
- Davis Bros, chemical consultants Manchester, Lancashire
- Davis's Chlorine Processes Ltd Lostock Graham, Cheshire
- Dring & Fage, scientific instrument makers London
- East Tregembo Mining Co Ltd, tin mine Marazion, Cornwall
- Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Co Ltd London
- Eastern Telegraph Co Ltd London
- EH Bentall & Co Ltd, ironfounders and agricultural machinery mfrs Heybridge, Essex
- Expanded Rubber Co Ltd Croydon, Surrey
- Felt & Tarrant Ltd, calculating machine makers London
- Foster Arc Lamp and Engineering Co Ltd Wimbledon, Surrey
- General Electric Company plc, manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment London
- George Wailes & Co Ltd, engineers and millwrights, machine tool merchants, machinists and tool dealers London
- Grand Junction Canal Company London
- H N Irving & Son, telescope makers, Ealing Ealing, Middlesex
- H Tinsley & Co Ltd, manufacturers of scientific instruments, submarine telegraph equipment and electric measuring instruments London
- Halex Ltd
- Halifax Graving Dock Co Ltd, dry dock proprietors Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Haltwhistle Paint Works
- Harland & Wolff Ltd, shipbuilders, Belfast Belfast, County Antrim
- Helsby Cables Ltd, electrical cable manufacturers Helsby, Cheshire
- Hooper & Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd Westminster, Middlesex
- Hopkinsons Ltd, valve manufacturer, Huddersfield Huddersfield, Yorkshire
- Hove & District Omnibus Co Brighton, Sussex
- ICI: Imperial Chemical Industries (General Chemicals) Ltd
- Imperial Chemical Industries plc London;Billingham, Durham;Runcorn, Cheshire;Stowmarket, Suffolk;Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
- International Computers Ltd
- J Lyons & Co Ltd, food manufacturers and caterers London
- JA Prestwich Industries Ltd, motor engine mfrs Tottenham, Middlesex
- James Stephens, mechanical engineer Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
- JH Steward Ltd, opticians and scientific instrument makers London
- John Brameld, apothecary
- John Dickinson Ltd, paper and stationery manufacturers Bristol, Gloucestershire;Kings Langley, Hertfordshire;Watford, Hertfordshire
- John I Thornycroft & Co Ltd, shipbuilders, engineers and motor vehicle manufacturers Southampton, Hampshire
- John Taylor & Sons, consulting engineers London
- John Walker, pharmacist, Stockton-on-Tees Stockton-on-Tees, Durham
- John Weiss & Son, medical instrument makers, London London
- Joshua Buckton & Co Ltd, machine tool manufacturers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd, brewers Leeds, Yorkshire
- Lacey-Hulbert & Co Ltd, pneumatic engineers, London and Beddington London;Beddington, Surrey
- Lamson Engineering Co Ltd
- Laporte plc, chemicals manufacturers London;Luton, Bedfordshire
- Longstone Edge Lead Mines Great Longstone, Derbyshire
- Lovell Mining Co Ltd, tin mine Helston, Cornwall
- Magpie lead mine Bakewell, Derbyshire
- Maudslay Sons & Field Ltd, mechanical and marine engineers and boilermakers London
- Morris Commercial Cars Ltd, commercial vehicle manufacturers Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Morton Sundour Fabrics Ltd, textile manufacturers Carlisle, Cumberland;Darvel, Ayrshire;Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Muirhead Ltd, electrical measuring and control equipment manufacturers Beckenham, Kent
- Mullard Ltd
- Negretti & Zambra Ltd, scientific instrument manufacturers London
- Norris Bros Ltd, consultant design engineers London
- North Redemore tin mine Cornwall;Cornwall
- OSRAM-GEC Ltd
- Pars & Co, pharmacists Bournemouth, Hampshire
- Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd Wallsend, Northumberland
- Planned Music Ltd
- Plenty Ltd, engineers and pump manufacturers, Newbury Newbury, Berkshire
- Port of London Authority London
- Richard Meredith, ironmonger Kington, Herefordshire
- Rolls-Royce Ltd, aero engine and motor car manufacturers Derby, Derbyshire;Crewe, Cheshire
- Romford Gas Co Romford, Essex
- Ropeways Ltd, aerial ropeway manufacturers London
- RW Crabtree & Sons, printing machine manufacturers Leeds, Yorkshire
- S Pearson & Son Ltd, public works contractors London
- Sharp, Roberts & Co, engineers Manchester, Lancashire
- Sharp, Stewart & Co Ltd, locomotive builders Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Shell International Petroleum Co Ltd London
- Siemens Bros & Co Ltd, manufacturers of electrical cables, wires and batteries London
- Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, consulting engineers London
- Somalvico & Co, London London
- Steel Barrel Company Uxbridge, Middlesex
- SU Co Ltd, general engineers and carburettor manufacturers London
- T & C Hawksley, civil engineers London
- Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co Ltd, submarine telegraph cable manufacturers and cable layers London
- Thames Archway Co, tunnel builders London
- Thames Tunnel Co London
- The Damard Lacquer Co Ltd, lacquer manufacturers Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Thomas Farmer & Co, chemical manufacturers
- Thomas McLachlan & Partners, public analysts London
- Thomas Whittles Ltd, silk manufacturers and dyers Leek, Staffordshire
- Thomas Williams & Co Ltd, brewers and maltsters Wooburn, Buckinghamshire
- Vactric Control Equipment Ltd, electric motor, tool and component manufacturers London
- West African Telegraph Co Ltd London
- Western Telegraph Co Ltd London
- Westwood Baillie & Co, ironfounders, bridge and ship builders London
- WF Stanley & Co Ltd, surveying equipment manufacturers London
- Williamson Manufacturing Co Ltd, film developer, camera manufacturer, pump manufacturer, London and Sussex London;Sussex
- Wind Energy Group Orkney
- Woodall-Duckham Ltd, gas engineers and retort manufacturers London
- Wouldham Cement Co Ltd Wouldham, Kent
- WT Henley's Telegraph Works Co Ltd, telegraph, telephone and electric cable manufacturers London
Organisations (40)
- Anti-Concorde Project
- Biochemical Dining Club
- Board of Trade, Standards Department
- British Institute of Radiology
- British Red Cross Society London
- British Society for International Bibliography
- British Society for the History of Science
- British Transport Commission
- Burden Neurological Institute, Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Calabria, cable-laying ship
- Central Office of Information
- Central Youth Employment Executive
- Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton Down
- Falmouth Polytechnic Society and Observatory Falmouth, Cornwall
- Fuel Research Committee
- Gulnare, yacht Wivenhoe, Essex
- HMS Queen (1839)
- Hydrological Research committees
- Institute of Trading Standards Administration London
- John Pender, cable-laying ship
- Jullanar, yacht Wivenhoe, Essex
- Kettering Group Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Ministry of Munitions: Munitions Inventions Department
- Ministry of Public Building and Works
- National Physical Laboratory
- Plymouth Harbour Plymouth, Devon
- Public Health Laboratory Service
- QUIT
- Royal Air Force Wireless Experimental Establishment Biggin Hill, Kent
- Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough Farnborough, Hampshire
- Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors
- Royal Commission on Technical Instruction
- Royal Society of Arts Environmental Award Scheme
- Science Museum, London
- South Kensington Museum Kensington, Middlesex
- SY Anthracite
- UK Steel Association
- War Cabinet Office
- Warren Spring Laboratory Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Persons (198)
- Adams, George, (c1709-1773), mathematical instrument maker London
- Albone, Daniel, (1860-1906), Agricultural engineer
- Alston, Captain R S, (1875-1938), soldier and photographer
- Andrews, Gordon, (1960-2016), microwave technologist
- Andrews, Thomas, (1813-1885), Chemist
- Appleby, Charles James, (1828-1908), steam crane builder
- Archer, Mary Doreen, (b1944), scientist
- Ashley, Hallam, (1900-1987), photographer
- Ayrton, Hertha, (1854-1923), electrical engineer, suffragist
- Babbage, Charles, (1792-1871), mathematician
- Ball, John, (1872-1941), Engineer
- Basevi, James Palladio, (1832-1871), Military Surveyor
- Bayly, William, (1737-1810), Astronomer
- Beamish, Richard, (1798-1873), civil engineer
- Beattie, William, (1793-1875), physician and poet
- Bell, Patrick, (1799-1869), Church of Scotland minister and inventor of agricultural machinery
- Bennett, Alfred Rosling, (1850-1928), electrical engineer
- Bentall, Edward Hammond, (1814-1898), engineer, Liberal MP for Maldon
- Berry, Geoffrey Clive Francis, (1914-1983), civil servant, archivist and historian
- Bidder, George Parker, (1806-1878), civil engineer
- Bidder, George Parker, (1836-1896), Barrister and Businessman
- Binyon, Basil, (1885-1977), electrical engineer and director of British Broadcasting Company
- Black, Joseph, (1728-1799), chemist
- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, (1897-1974), Baron Blackett, physicist
- Body, John Henry Reginald, (1898-1998), historian of electrical engineering
- Bohringer, Arthur John, (fl1918-1927), automobile designer and engineer
- Bourne, John, (b c1813), civil engineer
- Bowden, Bertram Vivian, (1910-1989), Baron Bowden, technologist
- Boys, Sir Charles Vernon, (1855-1944), knight, physicist
- Brett, Jacob, (fl 1845), telegraphic engineer
- Brett, John Watkins, (1805-1863), telegraphic engineer
- Brewer, Griffith, (1867-1948), ballooning and aeronautical historian
- Brewster, Sir David, (1781-1868), Knight, natural philosopher
- Brodie, Bernard Beryl, (1909-1989), Nobel prize nominated pharmacologist
- Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard, (1769-1849), Knight Civil Engineer
- Campbell, Donald Malcolm, (1921-1967), land and water speed record holder
- Carew, Sir Benjamin Hallowell, (1760-1834), Knight, Admiral
- Carus Wilson, Charles Ashley, (1860-1942), electrical engineer
- Chaldecott, John Anthony, (1916-1998), scientist and author
- Clement, Joseph, (1779-1844), engineer Great Asby, Westmorland
- Codd, Mortimer Arthur, (b 1881), electrical engineer
- Cody, Samuel Franklin, (1867-1913), pioneer of British aviation
- Congreve, Sir William, (1772-1828), 2nd Baronet MP Inventor
- Cottrell, Sir Alan Howard, (1919-2012), Knight, metallurgist
- Cowper-Coles, Sherard Osborn, (1866-1936), Electro-Metallurgist
- Cox, Henry, (fl 1890), gas engineer
- Crisp, Sir Frank, (1843-1919), Knight Solicitor Historian of the Microscope
- Crompton, Elizabeth Gertrude, (d1939), wife
- Crompton, Rookes Evelyn Bell, (1845-1940), Soldier and Electrical Engineer
- Crookes, Sir William, (1832-1919), Knight Chemist
- Cross, Charles Frederick, (1855-1935), Analytical Chemist
- Culmann, Karl, (1821-1881), engineer
- Cushny, Arthur Robertson, (1866-1926), pharmacologist
- Dalton, John, (1766-1844), Chemist
- Davis, George Edward, (1850-1907), chemical engineer
- Davy, Sir Humphry, (1778-1829), 1st Baronet, physicist
- Denison, John, (fl1949-1972), computer engineer
- Desch, Cecil Henry, (1874-1958), metallurgist
- Dewar, Sir James, (1842-1923), Knight, chemist
- Dickson, James Douglas Hamilton, (1849-1931), Physicist
- Dingle, Herbert, (1890-1978), Professor of Natural Philosophy
- Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce, (1891-1953), engineer
- Dunne, John William, (1875-1949), aeroplane designer, writer on philosophy
- Ereky, Karoly, (1878-1952), Hungarian engineer Hungary
- Evershed, John, (1864-1956), astronomer
- Faraday, Michael, (1791-1867), natural philosopher
- Farish, William, (1759-1837), Natural Philosopher
- Ferranti, Basil Reginald Vincent Ziani de, (1930-1988), MP and businessman
- Feuerheerd, Ernest Matthias, (1876-1948), mechanical engineer
- Field, Joshua, (? 1787-1863), Civil and Mechanical Engineer
- Fleming, Sir John Ambrose, (1849-1945), Knight, electrical engineer
- Forbes-Sempill, William Francis, (1893-1965), 19th Lord Sempill
- Fowke, Francis, (1822-1865), Architect and Engineer
- Fowler, Alfred, (1868-1940), astrophysicist
- Gabor, Dennis, (1900-1979), Physicist
- Gilbert, Davies, (1767-1839), MP, scientist, antiquary
- Gill, Stanley, (1926-1975), computer scientist
- Goodrich, Simon, (1773-1847), engineer and mechanician to the Navy Board
- Graham, Thomas, (1805-1869), chemist
- Greenaway, Frank, (1917-2013), museum curator
- Grover, Charles, (1842-1921), Astronomer
- Grubb, Sir Howard, (1844-1931), Knight Scientist
- Haldane, Richard Burdon, (1856-1928), 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor
- Hales, Stephen, (1677-1761), Physiologist and Inventor
- Hanson, Charles Rastrick, (1850-1944), railway engineer
- Hartley, Sir Walter Noel, (1847-1913), Knight Chemist
- Hawksley, Thomas, (1807-1893), Civil Engineer
- Henson, Gravener, (1785-1852), workers' leader and author
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Hertz, Heinrich, (1857-1894), physicist
- Hey, James Stanley, (1909-2000), crystallographer Manchester, Lancashire
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, (1817-1911), Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Hope, Thomas Charles, (1766-1844), chemist
- Hopwood, Francis John Stephens, (1860-1947), 1st Baron Southborough, civil servant
- Horner, Leonard, (1785-1864), geologist
- Hosier, Arthur Julius, (1877-1963), Farmer and Engineer
- Howard, Luke, (1772-1864), meteorologist and chemist
- Jackson, Willis, (1904-1970), Baron Jackson of Burnley, electrical engineer
- James, Sir Henry, (1803-1877), Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey
- Johnson, William Beckett, (b 1902), engineer
- Jones, Jonathan Dallas George, (b1954), molecular biologist, geneticist
- Kevelaars, Heinrich Carl, (d 1984), aviation historian
- Kingsbury, John Edward, (1855-1948), electrical engineer and company manager
- Lavington, Professor Simon, (b 1939), computer scientist
- Lee, Charles E, (1901-1983), transport historian
- Lister, Martin, (1638-1712), zoologist
- Liveing, George Downing, (1827-1924), Chemist
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, (1836-1920), Knight Astronomer
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, (1851-1940), Knight, physicist
- Lovelock, James Ephraim, (b 1919), Independent Scientist and Ecologist
- Lubbock, Eric Reginald, (b 1928), 4th Baron Avebury, politician
- Lyons, Sir Henry George, (1864-1944), Knight, geographer and meteorologist
- Macadie, Donald, (1871-1956), inventor of the avometer
- Maitland, Edward Maitland, (1880-1921), Air Commodore, airship and parachute developer
- Manby, George William, (1765-1854), inventor of marine life saving apparatus
- Manning, William Reginald Dermot, (1903-1984), engineer
- Marin, Eugene Gaspard, (1883-1969), molinologist
- Maudslay, Henry, (1771-1831), Engineer
- Maudslay, Joseph, (1801-1861), engineer
- Maw, William Henry, (1838-1924), Engineer
- Mayo, Robert Hobart, (1891-1957), aeronautical engineer
- Maze, Sir Frederick William, (1874-1959), Knight Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs
- Milne, John, (1850-1913), mining engineer and seismologist
- Moody, Glyn, (fl 1994-2016), computing journalist
- Morris, Cyril Clarke Boville, (1882-1950), mechanical engineer
- Morton, Sir James, (1867-1943), Knight, textile manufacturer
- Moulton, John Fletcher, (1844-1921), 1st Baron Moulton of bank, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
- M'Pherson, Philip Keith, (1927-2016), mathematician and systems engineer
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
- Newall, Robert Stirling, (d 1978), Archaeologist
- Newman, Reg, (fl1970-1979), perfumer
- Nierenstein, Maximilian, (1877-1946), biochemist
- Noble, Sir Andrew, (1831-1915), 1st Baronet, physicist and businessman
- Norman, Sir Henry, (1858-1939), 1st Baronet, journalist, politician and public servant
- O'Gorman, Mervyn Joseph Pius, (1871-1956), aeronautical and electrical engineer
- Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon, (1854-1931), Knight, engineer and scientist
- Pearson, Michael, (1929-2014), mathematician
- Pearson, Weetman Dickinson, (1856-1927), 1st Viscount Cowdray
- Peek, Sir Cuthbert Edgar, (1855-1901), 2nd Baronet
- Percy, John, (1817-1889), Metallurgist
- Perkins, Angier March, (1799-1881), engineer United States of America;London
- Perkins, Loftus, (1834-1891), mechanical engineer
- Perry, Geoffrey E, (1927-2000), school teacher and astronomer Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Petree, James Foster, (1893-1970), historian of technology
- Playfair, Sir Edward Wilder, (1909-1999), Knight, civil servant
- Playfair, Lyon, (1818-1898), 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, chemist
- Pledge, Humphrey Thomas, (1903-1960), Scientist
- Popham, Home Riggs, (1762-1820), Knight, Rear Admiral
- Quillan, C M, (fl 1922), engineer
- Ramsay, Sir William, (1852-1916), Knight, chemist
- Robinson, James, (1884-1956), electrical engineer and inventor
- Robinson, Thomas Romney, (1792-1882), astronomer
- Rogers, Gordon Leonard, (b 1916), professor of physical optics
- Rucker, Sir Arthur William, (1848-1915), Knight physicist
- Russell, John Scott, (1808-1882), naval architect
- Rutherford, Ernest, (1871-1937), Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Sevant, Anthony Henry, (1933-2015), aerospace engineer
- Silberrad, Oswald John, (1878-1960), chemist
- Simnett, William Edward, (1880-1958), Author and Journalist
- Simpson, David Michael, (1964-2009), aeronautical engineer
- Simpson, Thomas, (1710-1761), mathematician
- Smith, Archibald, (1813-1872), mathematician
- Smith, Charles Harvard Gibbs-, (1909-1981), aviation historian
- Smith, Francis Pettit, (1808-1874), curator of Patent Office Musem
- Ston, Peter John, (1944-2020), engineer
- Stovin, Sir Frederick, (1783-1865), Knight General
- Strickland, Frederic, (1868-1934), Major, and civil engineer Appleton-le-Street, Yorkshire
- Strong, Charles Eric, (fl 1923-1964), telecommunications engineer
- Tappin, Vivienne Evelyn, (1911-1988), machine room supervisor
- Taylor, Alfred Swaine, (1806-1880), physician and forensic scientist Northfleet, Kent
- Taylor, Edward Wilfred, (1891-1980), optical engineer
- Taylor, Harold Dennis, (1862-1943), optical instrument maker
- Tiltman, Alfred Hessell, (1887-1975), design engineer
- Townsend, Charles Edward Clifton, (1909-1993)
- Trevithick, Richard, (1771-1833), engineer
- Tutton, Alfred Edwin Howard, (1864-1938), Crystallographer
- Villa, Leo, (1899-1979), chief engineer to Donald Campbell
- Walker, Sir Gilbert Thomas, (1868-1958), Knight Meteorologist
- Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville, (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer Ripley, Derbyshire
- Watts, Sir Philip, (1846-1926), Knight, naval architect
- Werry, William Charles, (fl 1899-1940), mechanical engineer
- Westover, George, (1886-1959), typesetter
- Wheatstone, Sir Charles, (1802-1875), Knight Physicist
- Whewell, William, (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Whitcombe, Harold Arthur, (1880-1943), physician, photographer
- Whittingham, Peter Donald George Venus, (1923-1987), expert in survival and aviation and space medicine
- Wilkinson, Michael Marlow Umfreville, (1831-1916), Anglican priest, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, mathematician
- Wilson, Michael, (fl 1997-2008), microbiologist
- Wilson, Paul Norman, (1908-1980), Baron Wilson of High Wray, hydraulic engineer
- Wolfe-Barry, Sir John, (1836-1918), Knight, civil engineer
- Wollaston, George Hyde, (1761-1845), Chairman of Thames Tunnel Co
- Wollaston, William Hyde, (1766-1828), physiologist, chemist and physicist
- Wood, Albert Beaumont, (1890-1964), Admiralty scientist
- Wood, John, (1790-1856), Chairman of the Inland Revenue Board
- Wood, Kenneth Maynard, (1916-1987), electrical manufacturer
- Woodcroft, Bennet, (1803-1879), Inventor
- Young, Christopher Alwyne Jack, (1912-1978), scientist
Diaries (20)
- Allen, John, (fl 1930-2006), aviation engineer
- Appleby, William E, (c1910-1960), aircraft historian
- Bagley, John, (fl 1969-1992), air race handicapper
- Baker, Arthur L L, (1905-1986), Professor of Concrete Structures and Technology, Imperial College, London
- Berner, Correze Aage Oscar, (c1900-1930), cable laying engineer
- Biggs, TJ, (fl 1892-1929), Bicycle and Motorcycle designer
- Bowden, Thomas William, Submarine Cable Jointer Aden
- Bridges Lee, J, (fl 1894-1904), barrister, inventor of the Bridges Lee phototheodolite
- Cockram, Ellis, (fl 1928), teacher
- Collier, Samuel, (1909-1917), Naval Mechanic
- Hansford, Hugh, (fl 1818), pupil Gillingham, Dorset
- Macalister, Donald G
- Palmer, Kenneth Charles, (fl 1945-1965), industrial designer
- Scamp, William, (b1801)
- Sharrock, Henry Wales
- Unnamed male, (fl 1834), auctioneer West Midlands
- Unnamed, (fl 1805), student
- Vezey, John Ricketts, (fl 1920-1940), cable engineer
- Weeden, Cyril, (fl 1937-1939), aeronautical designer
- Wilson, Helen, (c1914-1988)
Families (2)
- Hancock family of Marlborough Marlborough, Wiltshire
- Wemyss family of Bogie Bogie, Fife
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (43)
- NRA 43585 Thomas Andrews, chemist: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 9184 Charles Babbage, mathematician: notebooks and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28472 Barker & Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 42800 George Parker Bidder, civil engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 40192 George Parker Bidder: personal and family corresp and papers, mainly rel to docks and mining link to online catalogue
- NRA 28467 Bramah & Co, lock makers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 26113 Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 26109 Sir William Congreve, 2nd Bt: papers rel to hydro-pneumatic locks link to online catalogue
- NRA 35481 Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, electrical engineer: personal and business corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10079 John Dalton lecture notes and papers
- NRA 28452 George Edward Davis, chemical engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 35278 Dring & Fage, scientific instrument makers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 25397 Joshua Field, civil and mechanical engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 40191 Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, consulting engineers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 21399 Stanley Gill, computer scientist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11154 Simon Goodrich, Navy Board engineer: letters and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 35333 T & C Hawksley, civil engineers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 35277 Adam Hilger Ltd, manufacturing opticians and scientific instrument makers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 13485 Hooper & Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 26110 Donald Macadie, electrical engineer: papers rel to inventions link to online catalogue
- NRA 30912 Robert Hobart Mayo, aeronautical engineer: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 26111 Thomas McLachlan & Partners, public analysts, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 28468 Morton Sundour Fabrics Ltd, textile mfrs, London
- NRA 35707 Muirhead Ltd, electrical instrument mfrs, Beckenham link to online catalogue
- NRA 28466 D Napier & Son Ltd, motor car and aircraft engine mfrs, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 38866 Negretti & Zambra Ltd, scientific instrument mfrs, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 28463 Sir Henry Norman, public servant: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28461 Pars & Co, dispensing chemists, Bournemouth link to online catalogue
- NRA 28456 Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, engineer and scientist: corresp and papers
- NRA 28457 S Pearson & Son Ltd, public works contractors, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 25394 Science Museum Library: misc accessions
- NRA 9524 Science Museum Library: scientific and technical MSS
- NRA 36698 Charles Sells, engineering draughtsman: notebooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 43177 Oswald John Silberrad, industrial chemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28458 JH Steward Ltd, opticians and scientific instrument mfrs, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 35332 J Taylor & Sons, consulting engineers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 28460 Henry Tinsley & Co Ltd, submarine telegraph equipment mfrs, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 26108 John Ricketts Vezey: papers rel to submarine cables link to online catalogue
- NRA 28600 George Wailes & Co Ltd, mechanical engineers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 30555 Sir Barnes Wallis, aeronautical engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25393 Michael Marlow Umfreville Wilkinson: mathematical notebooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 28454 Albert Beaumont Wood, Admiralty scientist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 23119 Christopher Alwyne Jack Young: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
Accessions
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