Macgregor-Morris Notebooks

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 64-65
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Macgregor-Morris Notebooks
Date(s)	: Created c1891-1897
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Morris | John | Macgregor- | 1872-1959 | Professor of Electrical Engineering

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Morris was born in London in 1872, the eldest son of Jas. Morris, MD. He married Annie Elizabeth Frances Macgregor in 1917. He was educated privately and at University College London. He became an assistant to Professor Fleming at University College London, 1894-1898; specialising in subjects connected with illumination and cathode ray oscillographs. From 1930 to 1938 he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of London. He was Honorary Research Associate in Electrical Engineering at University College London from 1939, and Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the University of London from 1938. He was a fellow of University College and of Queen Mary College, London. He was the inventor of a portable direct reading anemometer. He published 'Cathode Ray Oscillography' with J.A.Henley in 1936; 'Sir Ambrose Fleming and the birth of the valve', in 1954; and numerous papers in scientific journals. He died on 18 March 1959.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

MS ADD 64 contains notes on electricity: mostly graphs and diagrams. MS ADD 65 consists of manuscript notes, graphs and diagrams, taken from lectures on electrical technology given by Professor John Ambrose Fleming.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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Conditions governing access:

Open.

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Normal copyright restrictions apply.

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by John Turner Macgregor-Morris.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999