Scope and Contents

The collection consists of diaries; slides; reprints; school and university notebooks and working notes; committee papers; photographs; and some 1600 items of correspondence. The material deals with Desch´s interest and work in historical metallurgy and Positivism, as well as with aspects of his research and professional career and his chemical work in the First World War.

Scope and Contents This diary was kept by W.H. Hatfield in March 1943 during the visit to America of the British Metallurgical Mission of which he was part. It records the details of Hatfield's trip including meetings between British, American and Canadian metallurgists and advisors regarding war-time production of steel. It contains press cuttings, photographs, postcards and other ephemera. The document also contains correspondence and a copy of Hatfield's manuscript 'Sheffield Burns' on the Sheffield...

Scope and Contents

Documents relating to the Sheffield Society of Engineers and Metallurgists, 1894 to 1962