File: Department of History of Science and Technology

Scope and Content

Correspondence and papers including letters from Professor D.S.L Cardwell giving an overview of the Department of History of Science and Technology and from Professor D.W.J. Cruickshank concerning potential research in technological and scientific education. Other papers refer to a proposed Education Unit at UMIST and plans to record certain industrial processes on film such as Manchester's Hydraulic Power System and hand-making paper. The file contains a programme for the British Society of the History of Science Winter Meeting held at UMIST in January 1975.