Chelsea College Department of Electrical Engineering Records

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA 1996 CDE, 1997 CDE
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: Chelsea College Department of Electrical Engineering Records
Date(s)	: 1968-1996
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of King's College London Archives
Extent	: 39 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Chelsea Polytechnic | Department of Electrical Engineering Chelsea College of Science and Technology | Department of Electrical Engineering Chelsea College | Department of Electrical Engineering

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Classes in Physics and Electrical Engineering were made available at the South-Western Polytechnic from 1895. The two disciplines were separated in 1906 and in 1918 the Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering were transferred to Battersea Polytechnic. An Engineering Science course in Electronics was reintroduced in 1967 at the successor to the South-Western/Chelsea Polytechnic, Chelsea College of Science and Technology. This Department of Electronics then merged with King's College London Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1985. It is now known as the Department of Electronic Engineering, and is part of the Division of Engineering within the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at King's College London.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Chelsea Polytechnic, Chelsea College of Science and Technology and Chelsea College Department of Electrical Engineering Records, 1968-1996. This series comprises correspondence with overseas research workers, 1990-1996; rough and fair copy teaching notes and handouts for students on courses taught by John Pearson and others on electronic devices, electromagnetism, circuits and control systems, microwave engineering and communications theory, 1972-1995; tape recordings of lectures on electronic devices, [1975]; Departmental research reports, 1989-1995; papers concerning a reunion of Chelsea Electronics graduates, 1985; incomplete set of examination question papers in Electronics and related disciplines, 1968-1993; group photographs of graduates, 1970-1980, 1985-1986, 1989, 1995; histories of the Electronics Department and other memorabilia, 1977-1978.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Boxed in the order in which the collection was received.

Conditions governing access:

Administrative records are generally subject to a thirty year closure period from the date of leaving.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, can be supplied to appropriate College staff. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Finding aids:

A descriptive list of the contents of the records is available for consultation in the King's College London Archive reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

John E Pearson, student and lecturer at Chelsea Polytechnic, Chelsea College and King's College, 1954-1996, transferred the records to King's College Archives in 1996.

Allied Materials

Related material:

King's College London Archives: Papers of John Pearson (Ref: C/PP3); Chelsea College Department of Electronic Engineering Student Records (Ref: KCLCA 1996 CDE CDE/FP, CDE/FP(W), CDE/FPPG, CDE/FPPG(W)); King's College London School of Physical Sciences and Engineering Student files (Ref: KCLCA SPSE/FP).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Rules or conventions:
National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2002