The National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS), a small unit funded by various charitable and other grants and located at the University of Bath, was established in April 1987 to locate, sort, index and catalogue the manuscript papers of distinguished contemporary British scientists and engineers.
The NCUACS is the successor to the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre at Oxford which operated along similar lines for fourteen years.
Close to the astronomy library are the archives, a collection of documents, meteorological and astronomical observations, papers and drawings related to the scientific and administrative life of the Bologna Observatory.
The original collection was given to the University Library by Brunel's grand-daughter, Lady Celia Noble, in 1950. It comprises letter books, sketchbooks, calculation books, documents and drawing instruments of Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1830-1866, certain papers of Isambard Brunel, Jr. and Sir Marc Brunel, and also the letterbooks of Henry Marc Brunel.
The Bakken is a center for education and learning that furthers the understanding of the history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and their benefits to contemporary society. Located in a newly expanded Tudor mansion in Minneapolis, it holds a research treasure of 11,000 rare books and 2,500 scientific instruments relating to the role of electricity in life. The Bakken was founded in 1975 by Earl E. Bakken, inventor of the first transistorized cardiac pacemaker.
This website contains an index and description of the manuscript holdings of the Bakken Library and Museum. The Bakken is a not-for-profit educational institute founded by the inventor of the first transistorized cardiac pacemaker. The Bakken's library collection includes approximately 11,000 books, journals, and manuscripts. The collection focuses on the history of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences but the content also covers subjects as diverse as early physics and phrenology. An index to the collection is included online. This index is divided into four chronological categories, within which the titles are organized alphabetically. The Bakken also owns many historical journals and a large number of supporting histories, biographies, and reference works. Additionally, the website offers information about how to use the library, research opportunities, and descriptions of recent acquisitions and exhibits.
This notebook is not a bound volume used by Leonardo, but was put together after his death from loose papers of various types and sizes.
The Royal Observatory possesses one of the most comprehensive collections of astronomical literature in existence. The library system, which serves the professional community, comprises the Main Library, the Crawford Library and Archives.
Astronomiae Historia contains currently more than 400 files (Web pages), which would give several thousand pages on paper when printed out. A list of nearly all files is given in the Site map. There are documents with own information, many link pages, and some Tables of Contents. To distinguish between internal and external documents, please note the URL (address) of the document as shown by your browser: All internal documents contain the string /~pbrosche/ in the URL.
Attending to the works referred to in these publications can tell us a great deal about the access the scientist or scientists under examination had to the ideas of contemporary scientists elsewhere, while the titles and places of publication of the journals in which articles appear can indicate the extent to which their authors are working in an international as against a local context.
In 1974, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Bicentennial Celebration Committee determined that those nurses whose dedication and achievements have significantly affected the nursing profession should be honored for their contributions.
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