The name Junior Institution of Engineers (JIE) came into existence in 1902 and survived until 1971 when its name changed once more. The JIE had started out life as the Vulcanic Society in 1884 and experienced several name changes before... Continue Reading →
The IET Archives has an ongoing programme of recalling artwork and objects from its collections in order to photograph, for reference and conservation purposes, and also to re-examine in order to update catalogue entries where necessary. Some of the items... Continue Reading →
The IET Archives has very recently received a donation of a technical notebook that was used between 1918 and 1948 and belonged to Norwegian electrical engineer called Alf Schaanning. This alphabetical notebook has a ring-binder format allowing for pages to... Continue Reading →
Whilst recently cataloguing some internal IEE papers from the 1980s we came across, amongst the files, an envelope containing 6 audio cassette tapes, one tape for each of six interviews. The envelope was marked ‘Mullard interviews 1999 – Maria Watkins’.... Continue Reading →
A volume of pamphlets titled, ‘Telescope I’ belonging to the SP Thompson collection was catalogued by the IET Archives in 2015. Even though this volume had been held in the archive collections for many decades, the cataloguing, due to the... Continue Reading →
The IET Archives has recently completed the cataloguing of a collection of papers relating to Plessey Semiconductors and its integrated circuit products from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection of primarily published material such as data sheets, technical... Continue Reading →
By Asha Gage, IET Archivist Recently I was fortunate enough to attend a highly amusing and informative show aimed at children called ‘inventive science’. It was all about showing the next generation how ordinary household objects and a bit of... Continue Reading →
The IET Archives holds an amazing collection of images which was put together by British Thomson-Houston (BTH), and which consists of some 28 photograph albums and 13,000 glass plate negatives in total. The images all have a connection to equipment... Continue Reading →
A collection of papers authored by Ray W Orson, and covering a significant period of change in the UK’s Electricity Supply Industry (ESI), has recently been donated to the IET Archives. Ray W Orson CBE sat on The Electricity Council,... Continue Reading →
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