Drafts, notes and correspondence relating to a paper titled 'The origins and growth of electronic engineering - a personal view', presented by MVW at a conference on the history of electronics at Bletchley

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Includes correspondence with Alan Hughes, OUP, about the origins of the word electronics.

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Papers of Maurice WilkesWilkes

Personal and Professional Papers (Series I)Wilkes/I

Personal and Professional Papers (Series II)Wilkes/II

Personal and Professional Papers (Series III)Wilkes/III

Files primarily relating to personal and biographical mattersWilkes/III/P

Files relating principally to membership of various clubs, societies and other bodiesWilkes/III/S

Technical filesWilkes/III/T

Correspondence, notes of conversations, seminar notes, conference programmes and other papers relating to technical issues in computing of interest to MVWWilkes/III/T/1

Correspondence, memoranda and notes on issues of processor designWilkes/III/T/4

Correspondence with Stephen Furber, University of Manchester, re low power computers and asynchronous designWilkes/III/T/4a

Draft papers, memoranda, notes and other papers on technical subjects close to MVW's own researchWilkes/III/T/10

Technical memoranda by MVW on various topicsWilkes/III/T/17

Correspondence with Kenneth Budden and others on ionosphere theory and on MVW's paper on Sir Edward Appleton and the history of ionosphere research, with related calculations and papersWilkes/III/T/23

Invitations, programme, correspondence, reminiscences and other papers relating to Sir John Cockcroft and marking the centenary of his birthWilkes/III/T/26

Notes, summaries, correspondence and other papers relating to DNA computingWilkes/III/T/29

Correspondence, photocopies and offprints of articles relating to Basil SchonlandWilkes/III/T/40

Memoranda, notes, attendance lists and correspondence relating to DECWilkes/III/T/41

Reports and position papers from an Olivetti Research Working Party set up to consider CFR applications, as a feasibility study for surveillance systemsWilkes/III/T/42

Drafts, notes and correspondence relating to MVW's article 'A perspective on computer progress in the last five years' which was published in 1990 in Computer and Control Engineering JournalWilkes/III/T/43

Research papers, correspondence and notes relating to solitons and non-linear opticsWilkes/III/T/44

Drafts, notes and correspondence relating to a paper titled 'The origins and growth of electronic engineering - a personal view', presented by MVW at a conference on the history of electronics at BletchleyWilkes/III/T/46

Correspondence with Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge, relating to the latter's article on Arthur Stanley EddingtonWilkes/III/T/47

Correspondence, press obituaries, notes, offprints and other papers relating to the Royal Society biographical memoir of Roger Needham, written by MVW and Sir Antony HoareWilkes/III/T/48

Files relating to later research and lecture toursWilkes/III/V

AwardsWilkes/IV