File 91 - Correspondence with B N Wallis

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TAYL/D/91

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Correspondence with B N Wallis

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  • 1956–74 (Creation)

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Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram (1886-1975), knight, physicist and engineer
(1886-1975)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Personal and scientific correspondence, including:
Correspondence 1956 on gyroscopes, and spin of a ball
1968 on submarine jet (in this letter Wallis mentions that a flood has destroyed many of his files and wartime films)
1971 re Wallis's sponsorship of Julian Taylor (Taylor's great-nephew) at Christ's Hospital (see also A.103)
1972 re any surviving diaries of Sir Charles Craven d.1944 (in his letter Wallis mentions his own lifelong suffering from migraine)
1974 re R.100, designed by Wallis.
Very little survives of Taylor's contribution to the correspondence.

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