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Burley Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 165

Scope and Contents

Textbooks, offprints, newspaper cuttings, degree certificates, etc. of George William Burley, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Dates

  • Creation: 1913 - 1992

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Available by appointment

Copyright

Various

Biographical / Historical

George William Burley, was born in 1885. His technical education was gained at University College, Sheffield (1900-1905), and from 1907 to 1921 he was lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. For the duration of World War I, Burley was Manager of Sheffield University Munition Works. In 1921, he became Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Matunga, Bombay, and in 1931 was appointed Principal. He retired in 1940 and returned to Sheffield.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the external documents section below.

Extent

3 Box(es)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

By category

Custodial History

The archive was donated by Goerge Burley's great grandson, Dr Robert Burley, of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, in 1992.

Related Materials

Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War Archive

Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Western Bank Library
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
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