Lectures, speeches, and publications

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Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
11 Manuscript of 'The Dynamics of a Golf Ball', delivered at the Royal Institution, London Item 18 Mar 1910
12 Visitor's ticket for 'The Passage of Electricity through Metals', lecture given by Thomson at the General Meeting, Institute of Metals, London Item 12 May 1915
18 'The World's Quest for God': Letter and notice regarding a meeting at the Examination Hall, Downing Street, Cambridge Item 10 Nov 1924
21 'The Structure of Light': Fison Memorial Lecture, delivered at Guy's Hospital Medical School, 7 May 1925, with related correspondence File 1924-1925
25 Letter and minutes relating to meeting of the Panel of Advisors for Broadcast National Lectures, 5 Jun 1929 Item 1929
26 Glass slides from box inscribed 'Slides used at B.A. [British Academy] meeting 1938' Item 1938
32 6 glass slides Item n.d
34 Memorandum of Agreement from Macmillan and Co for the publication of Applications of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry Item 1887-1888
39 Hard-backed notebook labelled on front cover 'M.S. of "Conduction of Electricity Through Gases" First Edition JJT' Item 1901
49 Correspondence re the Encyclopaedia Britannica Item 1910, 1921
52 Manuscript of Rays of Positive Electricity, with manuscript corrections and annotation Item [1913?]
53 Manuscript inscribed 'M.S. for slip 8' Item [1913?]
55 Manuscript notes Item [1913?]
58 Annotated proof: 'The function of lectures and textbooks in science teaching', Nature Item [1912]
4 'Electric Sparks', given at Owens College, Manchester File 6 Dec 1897
5 Manuscript of Thomson's Nobel Lecture, 'Carriers of Negative Electricity' File 6 Dec 1906
6 Manuscript of 'On Rays of Positive Electricity', delivered at the Royal Institution, London File 22 Mar 1907
16 Glass slides from box inscribed box inscribed 'RI [Royal Institution] Lecture 1921' Item 1921
19 Invitation from the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, to deliver the 17th Kelvin Lecture Item 3 Apr 1925
28 Notebook containing untitled manuscript draft, with loose manuscript material File [n. d.]
31 Speech given by Thomson at the Royal Society Jubilee Celebration Meetings, inscribed 'The Toast of The Visitors' Item n.d
33 'Experiments on Contact Electricity between Non-Conductors', Proceedings of the Royal Society, no. 172 Item 1876
36 Memorandum of Agreement from Clarendon Press for the 3rd edition of James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, to be prepared by Thomson Item 1889
40 Hard-backed notebook inscribed on first page 'Conduction through Electricity First Edition 2' File 1901
42 Typescript inscribed 'Conduction, Electric' with manuscript corrections and annotation Item n.d
44 Untitled manuscript Item [1903?]
45 Miscellaneous manuscript notes Item [1903?]
48 Manuscript inscribed 'Nature, Dec. 15, 1910 "A History of the Cavendish Laboratory"'. File 1910
50 Correspondence relating to the journal Discovery File 1921, 1930, 1936
54 Manuscript inscribed 'Slip 22 to follow after the line 'that required to excite the line spectrum' Item [1913?]