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Records of William E. James

The University of Melbourne
James, William Edwin (Aggregated by)
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This paper-based collection of records relates to physicist William E. James. The collection includes material relating to William E. James' life and work; project files on: Large Earth based solar Telescope; Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory includes tender for two degree Field tender for Collector Plate; Orroral Observatory including Cube Corner Prisms; Project Endeavour; technical publications; correspondence with individuals and institutions; photographs: showing James' optical laboratories and workshops together with his equipment and some images of celestial objects taken with his devices and 35mm slides used by him in his lectures; drafts of treatises on a range of topics on the art of making and figuring optical lenses and associated procedures (possibly in preparation for a textbook on optical instrument manufacture); project file on Starlab - project Endeavour, design work for an oblique corrector reflector for a space project that was abandoned. 18 archive boxes

Data time period: 1962 to 1995

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