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CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES CENTRE
British National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
under the guidance of the Royal Society’s
Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
ALFRED JOHN SUTTON PIPPARD FRS
(1891 - 1969)
Compiled by:
Jeannine Alton and Peter Harper
1984.
Deposited in the College Archives, Imperial College of
All rights reserved
Science and Technology, London
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The work of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, and the
production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following
societies and institutions:
The Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The Biochemical! Society
The British Pharmacological Society
The Charles Babbage Foundation for the History of Information
Processing
The Institute of Physics
The Nuffield Foundation
The Physiological Society
The Institution of Electrical Engineers
The Royal Society of London
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL & AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
A.1
Obituary notices and tributes
A.2 -A.8
Autobiographical accounts
A.9 -A.32 Career, honours and awards
A.33, A.34 Photographs
SECTION B
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, COMMITTEES &
CONSULTANCIES
B.1
-B.31
Aeronautical research
B.32
B.33
Arched dams
Hatfield Development Corporation -
Investigation into gale-damaged
houses
National Physical Laboratory
Executive Committee
SECTION C
Thames Pollution Committee
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Published papers
C.1 -C.24 Lectures and articles
LECTURES, ARTICLES & BROADCASTS
C,F8C.37
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Public Health Engineering at
Imperial College
Westminster City Council - Lisson
Green Development
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
C.28-C.33 Obituaries and biographical writings
C.25-C.27 Shorter talks and writings
SECTION D
CORRESPONDENCE
C.34-C.37 Broadcasts
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PROVENANCE
The
papers were received from Professor Sir Brian Pippard,
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younger son of
A.J.S. Pippard.
OUTLINE OF THE CAREER AND WORK OF A.J.S. PIPPARD
Pippard was born in Yeovil in 1891 and educated at Yeovil School and Bristol
University where he studied civil engineering.
served for two years as an articled assistant in the Bristol office of consultant engineer
A.P.1. Cotterell before obtaining a position as assistant engineer with the Pontypridd
& Rhonda Valley Joint Water Board.
Graduating from Bristol in 1911 he
In 1915 he was appointed as technical adviser to the Director of the Air
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is evidenced
the R.100 and R.101 (see B.21).
In 1933 Pippard moved to Imperial College where for more than twenty years
where he contributed to the work of the structures section
Department of the Admiralty
in improving aircraft safety and, incidentally, advancing structural science.
interest in aircraft structure continued after the war, first as a partner in a firm of aero~
nautical engineers, 1919-1922, and subsequently as Professor of Engineering at Cardiff,
In this period he was particularly associated
1922-1928, and Bristol, 1928-1933.
with the experimental testing of airship structures in connection with the building of
he presided over one of the finest civil engineering departments in the country, winning
His own active pursuit of researc!
the respect and affection of staff and students alike.
Although Pippard was the subject of some press criticism for the length of time his
Thames Pollution Committee set up by the Minister of Local Government and Housing
to make recommendations on the future management of the tidal reaches of the river.
His early M.Sc. thesis dealt with masonry dams and in his last five years at
dams.
Imperial College he undertook research projects on arched dams.
In the public domain, he served for ten years, 1951-1961, as Chairman of the
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Committee took to report, its work proved of immense benefit to those living and working
in the capital.
He also took part in an investigation for Hatfield Development Corpora-
tion into the gale damage to houses which occurred in November 1957, and in 1968-1969
he served as a consultant for Westminster City Council on the safety of system-built tall
blocks of flats in respect of the Lisson Green development.
Over many years he was
actively involved in the affairs of the Institution of Civil Engineers, serving as its president,
19 55~1959.:
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The collection is particularly strong in material of a biographical and personal
nature.
Of especial interest is the extensive autobiographical account written by
Pippard towards ihe end of his life (A.4).
virtually every aspect of his career (A.2, A.3), and two scrapbooks devoted to his year
There are also two scrapbooks covering
as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (A.25, A.27).
Almost all the material available relating to Pippard's scientific work is con-
cerned with his research on aircraft structures which is represented by a series of committee
report (B.37).
of articles and broadcaster.
It covers a period of nearly fifty years and a variety of
tion and iraining of engineers.
This last topic was of particular importance to him
survives.
However, in a small section on the Thames Pollution Committee, there is
Much more material survives relating to Pippard's activities as a lecturer, writer
Pippard's own account of its work prepared at the time of the publication of the official
Unfortunately very little manuscript material relating to Pippard's other interests
subjects, including aircraft and aviation, engineering structures in general and the. educa~
papers and reports prepared for the Aeronautical Research Council in the interwar yeors.
A.22-A.24, A.29-A.32, B.23, C.10, C.28, C.30 and C.33.
reflecting his concern about the image of engineering in the world, its lack of appeal as a
Also of interest in this section is a number of BBC radio broadcasts, especially
There is very little general correspondence in the collection.
There are letters,
however, in all the scrapbooks and the text of a few letters,
not otherwise available,
is
incorporated in the autobiographical account.
See also A.12, A.13, A.15, A.16-A.20,
profession and its disadvantage compared with pure science in attracting the very best
recruits.
the scripts for two series of talks to schools in the 1920s
(see C.34, C.35).
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SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL _A.1
- A.34
Obituary notices and tributes
Press-cutting of obituary notice of Pippard published
in The Times.
Photocopy of obituary notice from unidentified publication.
Memoir by A.W. Skempton (Biographical Memoirs of
Fellows of the Royal Society, 16, 1970).
Order of service and press notices of memorial service.
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Biographical and autobiographical
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS
Scrapbook no.1, 1909-66.
Principally letters and press-cuttings re Pippard's career, honours
and awards in this period.
Includes:
Material re appointment to the Chairs of Civil Engineering at
Bristol (1928) and Imperial College, London (1933), election
as a Fellow of the Royal Society (1954), appointment as Visiting
Professor of Civil Engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois (1956-57), award of an honorary doctorate by the University
of Bristol (1966).
Material relating to airship research (mostly press-cuttings) and
the Thamas Effluents Committee, including letters from the
departmental ministers: Hugh Dalton, Harold Macmillan and
Henry Brooke, and press~cuttings, some with criticism of the
length of time the Committee took before reporting.
Material relating to the education and training of engineers,
including letters to The Times (one from A.B. Pippard) and an
article written for The Times (1963).
of engineers,
Pippard's own listing of his technical papers, books and
broadcasis, lectures and general articles, anda separate
listing of lectures given by Pippard in the USA during
his Visiting Professorship at Northwestern University.
Photographs include the civil engineering department staff at
Imperial College before the Second World War, the June 1955
Postgraduate Structures Group at Imperial College and the National
Physical Laboratory Executive Committee, 1961.
Continued
Material relating to the award of honorary degrees by Bristol and
Birmingham Universities (1966) and Brunel University (1968),
to
his association with the Institution of Civil Engineers and in
particular his interest in the education and training
to his consultancy with Westminster City Council re the safety
Scrapbook no.2, 1920-69 (ihe most recent material appears first).
Principally letters, including unpublished letters from Pippard
to The Times and The Observer, press~cuttings and extracts from
periodicals.
Includes:
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Biographical and autobiographical
A.3(Cont'd.)
of system-built tall blocks of flats (1968) and to his interest in
the construction of dams, including correspondence in The Times
te a dam on the Thames (1967).
A small number of photographs and, in an envelope at rear of
book, miscellaneous press-cuttings and three menus (two signed)
from the period 1917-19.
'That was yesterday.'
Pippard's autobiography, originally suggested by his dearly-loved
wife Olive, and written after her death for his sons.
The work comprises a preface, eighteen chapters and appendices
containing a curriculum vitae,
broadcasts, lectures and articles,
lists of technical papers,
books
£
This is a photocopy kindly made available by Sir Brian Pippard.
Autobiographical talks by Pippard.
‘One Man in his Time’
‘Sons of Martha'
25 pp. typescript with ms. additions and corrections.
Address to the Birmingham University Civil Engineering Society,
18 October 1966.
In this undated talk on the varied life of the engineer, Pippard
confined himself 'to some of the parts played by one man in his
time’.
See also A.27, A.34.
Journal of West African visit, 1959.
one delivered in Ghana.
Journal of United States visit, 1949.
See also B.35.
7 pp. typescript with a very few ms. corrections.
Private journals of overseas visits.
With notes for two speeches,
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Biographical and autobiographical
CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS
Pippard's thesis on 'The Masonry Dam', submitted for M.Sc.
Degree in Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, 1914.
Document conferring upon Pippard the dignity of a Member of
the Order of the British Empire, 1 January 1918.
University of the West at Bristol.
Publication issued in the interests of an appeal for funds while
Pippard was Professor of Civil Engineering there.
identifications of staff by Pippard on some of the photographs.
There are ms.
Letter of appointment to the Chair of Civil Engineering at
Imperial College, London, 23 March 1933, and letters of
congratulation from colleagues, arranged alphabetically.
Letters of congratulation from close friends (many written to
Olive Pippard).
| Unindexed.
Publishing contracts, 1936 and 1951.
Leiters re wartime appointments, conditions of service, 1939,
1940.
Letters from D.R. Pye,
transfer to the Airworthiness Department of the Royal Aircraft
Establishment.
14 June and 20 June 1940, re Pippard's
Letter from R.E. Stradling, 26 August 1939, rearrangements for
Pippard to join his staff at the Forest Products Research Loboratory,
Princes Risborough, in the event of war breaking out.
Letter from Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society
1 April 1938, informing Pippard of his
(J. Laurence Pritchard),
election to the Council of the Society, with list of new Council
for 1938-39.
First names and unidentified signatures.
Letters of congratulation on Pippard's election to Fellowship of
the Royal Society, June 1954.
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Biographical and autobiographical
Presentation volume of names and signatures of colleagues and
students at Cardiff, Bristol and Imperial College, London,
1922-56, on the occasion of Pippard's retirement from the Chair
of Civil Engineering at Imperial College.
A.22-A, 24
Letters from colleagues and students re the retirement presentation.
Unindexed.
A. 22
A.23
A.24
A-D
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N - Z and first name and unidentified signatures.
Menu of farewell dinner, 14 June 1956, Imperial College,
London.
Scrapbook entitled 'The Institution of Civil Engineers.
of Presidential Year 1958-1959. Volume 1 General’.
Typescript diary of events interspersed with press-cuttings, extracts
trom engineering journals, letters and official programmes.
There are a few photographs and a typescript copy of Pippard's
address at the unveiling of a memorial to Brunel at the Clifton
Suspension Bridge, Bristol,
15 September 1959.
Records
Records
Visit to West Africa’.
Scrapbook entitled 'The Institutions of Civil Engineers.
of Presidential Year 1958-1959. Volume 2.
Typescript diary of events interspersed with route map, news-
paper cuttings and many photographs.
Includes also a letter from Pippard to Kwame Nkr umah,
28 October 1959, re the education and training of engineers
in Ghana.
Telegram of congratulations.
Papers re conferment of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science,
15 July 1966, University of Birmingham.
Correspondence (four letters) between Pippard and Vice-Chancellor
(Sir Robert Aitken), including Aitken's apology for sending the
invitation to Pippard's son at Cambridge and Pippard's unsigned
draft reply noting similar mistakes in the past.
Statement of the procedure for honorary graduands, seating plans
and degree- day luncheon menus.
Papers re conferment of Honorary Doctorate of Laws, May 196%,
University of Bristol.
Programme, invitations, seating arrangements and photographic
record from Illustrated Bristol News, July 1966.
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Biographical and autobiographical
A.30-A.32
Letters of condolence received on Pippard's death, 1969.
A.30
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A. 32
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First name and unidentified signatures.
A.33, A.34
PHOTOGRAPHS
A.33
A. 34
Miscellaneous photographs of Pippard, family and colleagues,
including early photographs of wife and family.
Photographs, principally relating to Pippard's visit to West
Africa as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1959.
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SECTION B
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, COMMITTEES AND CONSULTANCIES
B.1 -B.42
The material is presented as an alphabetical sequence by
order of topic, institution or initiating body.
There is a box of published papers at B.42 which includes
bound volumes, offprints, articles in journals and newspapers, etc.
AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH
Pippard's association with research on aircraft structures is
represented by a series of reports and committee papers of aero-
nautical research committees.
Further related published material
is to be found inB.42.
Also included here are the official report
of the R.101 inquiry and a number of Second World War research
papers on self-sealing petrol tanks for aircraft and camouflage
structures.
Ministry of Munitions.
Technical Department - Aircraft Production.
Reports and Memoranda,
Reports and Memoranda,
Report from the
W
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Communicated by the Accidents Investigation
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
No. 629.
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
No. 592.
'Handbook of Strength Calculations', by Pippard and J.L. Pritchard,
February 1918.
'Report on Accidents to Certain Aeroplanes, with Special Reference
to "Spinning"
Committee, December 1918.
by the Accidents Committee, January 1919.
‘Reports on the Behaviour of Aeroplanes when Flying Inverted,
with Special Reference to Some Accidents on "A".'
Communicated
'The Longitudinal Stability of "X" Aeroplanes’.
Accidents Committee, December 1918.
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
No.617.
Reports and Memoranda,
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Scientific research, committees and consultancies
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Committee.
Aerodynamics Sub-
‘Note with reference to strength requirements on aeroplanes ',
by Pippard, June 1919.
3 pp. typescript.
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Factors.
Sub-Committee on Load
'A possible empirical formula for the load factor of an aeroplane’,
by Pippard, November 1919.
3 pp. typescript.
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Load Factor Sub-Committee.
‘The aeroplane of consistent strength', by Pippard, February 1920.
10 pp. typescript.
p.133, presented as a committee paper.)
(Extract from Engineering, 30 January 1920,
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Sub-Committee.
Accidents Investigation
‘Lateral Stability.
December 1920.
A suggested figure of merit', by Pippard,
2 pp. typescript.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Note
Aeronautical Research Committee.
No.775.
Reports and Memoranda,
Aeronautical Research Committee.
No. 800.
Reports and Memoranda,
‘The Basis of Aeroplane Structural Strength Specification’, by
Pippard, January 1921.
15 pp. typescript and graph page.
‘Report on the Accident to H.M. Airship R.38', by the Accidents
Investigation Sub-Committee, March 1922.
5 pp. typescript.
'The transition of a counterbraced framework from the redundant
to "simply stiff" condition with increase of external load.’
by Pippard, July 1924.
"Report of the Airship Stressing Panel', August 1922.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
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Scientific research, committees and consultancies
Aeronautical Research Committee.
‘Research on Redundant Structures.
September 1924.
structure.
6 pp. typescript and photograph of research
Progress Report.’ By Pippard,
Aeronautical Research Committee.
No.970.
Reports and Memoranda,
‘Report of the Airworthiness of Airships Panel’, October 1924.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Structures Sub-Committee.
‘Research on Redundant Structures', January 1926.
3 pp. typescript.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
No. 1039.
Reports and Memoranda,
‘Stresses in a Stiff Jointed Polygonal Frame under a System of
Loads Perpendicular to the Plane of the Frame', by J.F. Baker,
presented by Pippard, February 1926.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Load Factors Sub-Committee.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Load Factors Sub- Gmmittee.
2pp. typescript.
2 pp. typescript.
‘The Strength Requirements for an Aeroplane in a Steep Dive', by
Pippard, May 1929.
7 pp. typescript.
‘Note on Strut OO. "The accuracy of stress calculations for an
aeroplane fuselage under combined bending and torsion"', by
Pippard, n.d.
‘Note on R. & M.706. "An Analysis of the conditions governing
the requisite strength of aeroplane structures"', by Pippard,
February 1930.
on 21 July 1930', January 1931.
‘Technical Report by the Accidents Investigation Sub-Committee
on the Accident to the Aeroplane G-AAZK at Meopham, Kent,
Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda,
No.1360.
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Scientific research, committees and consultancies
Report of the R.101 Inquiry.
Secretary of State for the Air, March 1931.
no.3825.
Presented to Parliament by the
Command Paper
As the Air Ministry's Airworthiness Authority (with Sir Leonard
Bairstow) for the R.100 and R.101 airships, Pippard was deeply
concerned in the outcome of the inquiry.
In this his own copy
of the report he has added marginal emphasis to passages
exonerating those responsible for its structural design.
e.g., pp.23, 83.
See,
Royal Aircraft Establishment.
Draft report.
'The Accuracy of Stress Calculations for an Aeroplone under
Combined Bending and Torsion', by A.G. Pugsley and A.R.
Collins, September 1931.
19 pp. typescript and 10 pp. of
tabular statements and diagrams.
Letter from K.T. Spencer, Royal Aircraft Establishment,
Farnborough, 23 October 1931, enclosing:
‘Notes on Certain Assumptions of the Present Method of Calculating
Torsional Stresses in an Aeroplane Fuselage', October 1931.
2 pp. typescript with 'Table Showing Effect of Stiffness of Rear
Bulkhead EekK on Loads in Fuselage Members (3 pp.)!
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Structure Sub-Committee.
Letters from Pippard to Spencer, 26 February and 1 March 1932
re the notes enclosed in Spencer's letter of October 1931.
"Note on the Stressing of an Aeroplane under Combined Bending
3 pp. typescript.
and Torsion’, by Pippard, 3 November 1932.
with appendices of calculations and diagrams (75 pp.)
'The Primary Stress Analysis of a Tube Braced on the Geodetic
21 pp. typescript
Principle’, by Pippard, 13 February 1936.
Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda,
No.1645.
"Report on Puss Moth Accidents by the Accidents Investigation
Sub-Committee’, March 1935.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Structure Sub-Committee.
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Scientific research, committees and consultancies
S.27
Aeronautical Research Committee.
No.1851.
Reports and Memoranda
"Simple Experimental Analysis of the Stresses in Rings', by
Pippard and S.R. Sparkes, 20 October 1938.
‘Report on Development of Self-Sealing Tanks and Pipes', by
Pippard, 9 October 1940.
8 pp. typescript with figures and
tables.
'2nd Report on the Development of Self-sealing Tanks & Pipes',
by Pippard and P. Shaw, 31 December 1940.
4 pp. typescript.
"Report on the Design of a 4~Cell Hide for Baginton.'
Prepared
for the Research and Experiments Department, Ministry of Home
Security and dated Imperial College, 12 November 1941.
6 pp. typescript with appendix (6 pp.) and diagrams.
Aeronautical Research Committee.
Structure Sub-Committee.
‘Note on the Use of Experiments on Structures', by Pippard,
11 December 1944.
2 pp. typescript with ms. additions.
Arched Dams.
Dokan Dam, Iraq.
Vol. 2, 1955.
Report on an investigation of the Stresses in
Report of Local Inquiry
Hatfield Development Corporation.
into the Causes of Damage to Houses at Hatfield New Town,
1958.
This record of the investigation carried out at Imperial College
is presented here to illustrate this important aspect of Pippard's
scientific work.
For further published material relating to the
structure of dams, see B.42.
has added much marginal emphasis.
Pippard took part in an investigation into the damage on behalf
of the Development Corporation and subsequently appeared as a
witness at the inquiry appointed by the Minister
of Housing and
In this his own copy of the report, Pippard
Local Government.
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Scientific research, committees and consultancies
National Physical Laboratory.
Executive Committee Reports.
Pippard served on the Executive Committee for over six years.
There are reports on Standards Division of the NPL for 1959,
1961 and 1963.
See also D.1.
Public Health Engineering at Imperial College.
visit to the USA, 1949.
Report on a
having allocated funds for the establishment of a Division of
Public Health Engineering in the Civil Engineering Department
at Imperial College, invited Pippard to visit the USA to inform
himself about comparable work there.
The Rockefeller Foundation,
27 pp. typescript and 2 pp. draft.
B.36-B.40
Thames Pollution Committee.
B.36
‘Report of the Departmental Committee on the Effects of Heated
and other Effluents and Discharges on the Condition of the
Tidal Reaches of the River Thames', 1961.
'Water Conservation England and Wales, '
Cmnd. 1693.
Some underscoring and marginal emphasis by Pippard.
'The Cleaner Thames.'
Port of London Authority, 1967.
Pippard's own account of the work of the committee, prepared
at the time of the publication of the official report.
17 pp. typescript with ms. additions and corrections, with ms.
preface and final page of ms. calculations.
Command paper presented to Parliament by the Ministers of
Housing and Local Government, and Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food, April 1962.
pollution, floods, etc.
The preface by Lord Simon, ‘Chairman of the PLA, pays tribute
to Pippard's contribution to the notable improvement in the
condition of the river;
Miscellaneous press~cuttings relating to water management,
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Scientific research, committees and consultancies
Westminster City Council, Lisson Green Development.
3 pp. typescript record of consultancy, 16 July 1968 to 3 July
1969, with brief diary-like entries.
Published papers, 1913-68.
1 box.
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SECTION C
LECTURES, ARTICLES, BROADCASTS
C.1 - C.37
C.1-C.24
Lectures and articles
Ca-G.3
Three lectures on Aircraft and Aviation.
Sat
‘Some Problems of Aeroplane Design.'
Lecture to Derby Society of Engineers, April 1921.
21 pp. typescript.
'The Aeroplane considered as an engineering Structure.'
Lecture to Students of Royal Aeronautical Society, 12 October
1922.
16 pp. typescript.
'The Post War Development of Aviation.'
Lecture to South Wales Institute of Engineers, 23 October 1926.
8 pp. typescript with ms. additions and press~cutting.
Education and Training of Engineers
Engineering Studies in British Universities, Universities Quarteriy,
February 1948.
13 pp. typescript.
This was a talk about undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
Public Health Engineering at British Universities.
5 pp. typescript with ms. additions and corrections.
Contribution to Seminar on 'The Role of Public Health Engineering
in Europe’, Public Works and Roads Congress at Olympia,
November 1952.
Privately printed verbatim report of a conference, 22 April 1954,
at Imperial College, London.
"Statement to Education and Training Committee of the Institution
of Civil Engineers on my return from Northwestern University .'
3 pp. typescript statement and items reproduced from New York
Times and Chicago Tribune.
‘Engineering as a Career.'
Marginal scorings and underlining.
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Lectures, articles, broadcasts
ae
Address at opening of Institution of Civil Engineers Commonwealth
Training Week (1961).
4 pp. ms. notes.
"On Sandwich Courses in Engineering.’
Observations made in response to a request from J. Heywood for
a survey of higher technological education sponsored by the
Nuffield Trust,
19 September 1962.
5 pp. typescript with a few ms. corrections.
‘Our Image to the World.'
3 pp. typescript inscribed 'Notes to Council of 1.C.E.,
22 tn (POR
3 pp. typescript headed 'Note to President |.C.E., March 1963',
with Ip. addendum to the note.
3 pp. typescript with lp. appendix.
Related correspondence and statistical data.
Comments on Pippard's note by J.H. Jellett.
Aiso included here are 3 pp. ms. notes headed 'Civil Engineers’
Attitude to Science "Smeatonianism"’.
"The Snobbery of Science.'
For the article as published, see A.2.
‘Look Ahead', The Engineer, 27 March 1964.
7 pp. typescript draft.
‘Bounds Unlimited, '
'The Training of the Professional Engineer .'
5 pp. typescript with a few ms. corrections.
Original form of article published in The Times (13 November
1963) and shortened by the Editor.
6 pp. typescript with ms. corrections and additions.
Prepared in January 1966 for delivery at Sandbach School,
21 May 1966.
Address to new science graduates of Birmingham University,
July 1966.
Two typescript drafts (12 pp.) with ms. additions and corrections.
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Lectures, articles, broadcasts
‘The Activities of the Institution of Civil Engineers. '
Article for Road Tar Association, July 1968.
2 pp. typescript with ms. corrections.
‘The Relative Merits of Large and Small Departments.'
Contribution to a discussion by Professors of Engineering in
Great Britain at University of London.
‘Date unknown but sometime after 2nd war.'
note. )
(Pippard's own
6 pp. typescript with underscoring and a few ms. corrections.
C.17-C.24
Engineering problems
i, 17
'The Civil Engineer and Public Health.'
Lecture to postgraduate students at London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, 14 October 1952.
22 pp. typescript with ms. additions and corrections.
'The Civil Engineer in the Laboratory.'
C.19-€C.21
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‘Bghay love and Design.'
2.
‘The Evolution of Insight into Behaviour.’
Typescript and ms. notes for Royal Institution discourse,
8 May 1953.
Three lectures to students at the Royal Institution on the
Behaviour of Engineering Structures.
24 pp. typescript with ms. additions and corrections, and list
of slides.
Chronicle (1 p.).
Address to Cambridge Engineering Society, 20 January 1960.
5 pp. typescript notes with ms. additions and corrections, and
typescript extracts from Phil. Mag. 1831 and Manchester
28 pp. typescript with a few ms. additions and corrections, and
marginal scorings.
3.
‘Study of Behaviour.’
13 pp. typescript with a few ms. additions and corrections.
'The Importance of Failures.'
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Lectures, articles, broadcasts
‘Conditions Governing the Discharge of Waste into Estuaries.’
Introductory notes to an informal discussion at the Institution of
Civil Engineers, 15 November 1962.
16 pp. typescript and 3 pp. summary.
'The Role of Experiments in Applied Science.'
5 pp. typescript draft.
aoe «at
Shorter talks and writings
G25
Institution: of Civil Engineers Annual Dinner, ? 1957.
Speech in proposing the toast of 'Our Guests’.
Rough draft and clean typescript.
The Institution
of Civil Engineers Sesquicentenary, 1968.
Vote of thanks to Professor S. Balke, 16 July 1968.
Short notes prepared for inclusion in souvenir programme of
Guildhall reception, 16 July 1968.
Not used.
Undated talks.
Obituaries and Biographical Writings
‘Academic Otherwiseness and Wit.'
Incomplete typescript draft (3 pp.).
Introductory remarks at inaugural lecture of J.R.D. Francis,
Imperial College, London.
Civil Engineers.
Biographical notes written 22 July 1969 for Institution of Civil
Engineers on occasion of award of Telford Gold Medal to Miss
Chitty.
Address on the centenary of the death of Brunel when a memorial
tablet was unveiled at the Clifton Suspension Bridge, 1959.
Note for The Times with a little related correspondence, 1961.
J.F. Baker
1.K. Brunel
L. Chitty
Letter of thanks from D.H. de T. Reade of the Institution of
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A. Gibb
Draft entry for Supplement to Dictionary of National Biography.
Memoir written with G.P. Harrison (Biographical Memoirs of
Fellows of the Royal Society, 5, 1960).
R.E. Stradling
Draft entry for Supplement to Dictionary of National Biography
1951-1960.
Memoir written by Pippard (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of
the Royal Society, 674952).
G.I. Taylor
Draft of citation on the award of the Kelvin Medal, 16 February
1960.
Report of the Proceedings at the Presentation on the 16th
February 1960.
Letter of thanks from Grace Stephanie Taylor for the address on
the award of the Kelvin Medal to her husband.
Broadca sts_
The
'The Age of Dreams'
'Gliders'
'The First Aeroplane'
"Some Historical Flights'
'The Conquest of the Air.'
Seven talks broadcast to schools from Cardiff, 1926 or 1927.
talks were:
‘Development During the War and After’
‘Airships!
'How an Aeroplane Flies'
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‘Engineering Feats in the West.'
Six talks broadcast to schools from Cardiff, 1927.
were :
The talks
'The Severn Tunnel’
'The Old Stone Bridge at Pontypridd’
‘Clifton Suspension Bridge'
"Newport Transporter Bridge!
"Cardiff Waterworks'
‘Engineering for Health.'
Talk for Home Service broadcast, 27 October 1949.
Digest of the talk from The Municipal Journal.
‘Public Health and the Engineer.'
Talk for BBC Overseas Service, December 1949.
Reproduction of the talk in The Guilds Engineer, 1950.
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Beynon, E.G.
Chandos, J.
Relates to assistance with television programme
on the R.101 and the future possibilities of
dirigibles.
Cousins, F.
Relates to dissolution of Executive Committee of the
National Physical Laboratory on which Pippard had
served.
Seealso B.34.
McDonald, A.
Pritchard; J.L.
Skempton, A.W.
Refers to the great change for the better which
Pippard had made in the civil engineering academic
world.
Wex, B.
Wynne-Edwards, R.M.
Letter of thanks for past services on occasion of
Pippard's retirement from Council of the Institution
of Civil Engineers.
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ABBOT, W.
ADDISON, H.
AITKEN, Sir Robert
ALLEN, Jack
ALLSOPP, Philip
ANDERSON, John, Viscount Waverley
ANDRADE, Sir Edward Nevill da Costa
ANDREW, James
ARNOLD, Ronald N.
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A.17
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A.17
A.17
A.2
A.17
A.17
A.17
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BULLARD, Sir Edward (Crisp)
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CHANDOS, John
CHAPMAN, Sydney
CHIBNALL, Albert Charles
CLOSS, A.
COATES Ra),
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COUSINS, Frank
CREMER, Herbert W.
CRONIN, Henry F.
CUNNINGHAM, G.
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FOX, Douglas Gerard Arthur
FLOYD, Arthur
FOSTER, P. . Field
FAIR, Gordon M.
FARREN, Sir William Scott
FISHENDEN, Margaret
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GARNER, H.
M.
GARNER, William Edward
GLANVILLE, Sir William Henry
GOLDSTEIN, Sydney
GOUGH, Herbert John
GREIG, Sir James
GROOTENHEIM, Peter
GURNEY, C.
HALL, Peter
HAMMOND, Rolt
HAMMOND, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemoriére
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HUTTON, Robert Salmon
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ISSERLIS, A.
INGLIS, Sir Claude Cavendish
JAMESON, Alex H.
HUTTON, Stanley
JONES, Harry
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Kev, A,
KOLBUSZEWSKI, J.
LAMB, Ernest Horace
LAMB, Sir Horace
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METTAM, Herbert A.
McGEE, James Dwyer
MARSHALL, William T.
MACKINTOSH, James M.
MACMILLAN, Sir (Maurice) Harold
NEWITT, Dudley Maurice
NORRIE, C.
NAYLOR, Arthur
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