Series 35 - Miscellaneous


ProvenanceSir Alec Skempton

Inventory Listing

• Copies of two French documents, 1760 and nd, and copy of discussion on concrete foundations, from Transactions of InstCE
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)405
Date range c. 1760 - c. 1830
• File entitled ‘Surveying’, containing notes and a discussion paper by Skempton on the Grassington Moor mines
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)394
Date range No date
• Envelope containing notes, copy articles, etc on earth-moving plant
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)395
Date range No date
• Envelope containing copy articles on earth-moving plant pre 1930
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)396
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on steam engines
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)397
Date range No date
• File of notes, etc on the renaissance (biography and theory)
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)398
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, copy of article, etc on science of civil engineering
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)399
Date range No date
• MS and typescript notes on ‘CEH’ [Civil Engineering History?] (on lighthouses in Cornwall)
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)400
Date range No date
• File of notes, etc on civil engineering in the Netherlands
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)491
Date range No date
• Copy of article by Geoffrey Parnell, ‘Getting into deep water?’ [history of the Tower moat], London Archaeologist, pp 387-389
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)402
Date range winter 1995
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Surveying instruments & makers’ containing notes, copies of articles, correspondence and illustrations
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)393
Date range c. Jan 1972 - c. June 1973
• ‘Some dates in the early history of rope-making machinery’ [1792-1800]
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)404
Date range No date
• Folder of MS notes on Weinreb
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)416
Date range No date
• Copy of two documents relating to retaining walls at Kingstown, near Dublin Related inventory ID: SKEM/RES(IND)365
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)406
Date range No date [Apr 1835]
• Notes and copies of articles relating to costs and fees
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)407
Date range No date
• Notebook containing miscellaneous notes, sketches, etc
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)408
Date range No date
• Notebook containing miscellaneous notes, sketches, etc
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)409
Date range No date
• Notebook containing miscellaneous notes, sketches, etc
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)410
Date range No date
• Miscellaneous notes on industrial archaeology and history
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)411
Date range No date
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Miscellaneous history’
Miscellaneous

The Engineer, centenary number 1856-1956; various offprints; brochures; copy typescript of ‘Mechanism of resistance to sliding’ (English summary of a chapter in Erdbaumechanik, pp 42-46) by K Terzaghi; copy typescript of ‘Origin and functions of soil mechanics’ by K Terzaghi; miscellaneous notes and photographs

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)412
Date range c. 1956 - c. Mar 1958
• Typescript of chapters 1 – 8 of unidentified book relating to railways, canals, etc
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)413
Date range No date
• Copy typescript headed ‘Civil engineering heritage Volume 3 Southern England’ (chapter 3, Somerset) - list of sources
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)414
Date range No date [Nov 1986]
• List of book titles, marked ‘Papers I wish to include’
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)415
Date range No date
• Notes on Coalbrookdale (headed ‘Soil Mechanics’)
Miscellaneous
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)403
Date range No date

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