[1998.0074] Papers of William E James

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IdentifierUMA-ACE-19980074Extent16 boxesLinear Meterage2.24Scope and ContentComprises 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 his 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.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Accession

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CreatorJames, William E.

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Date1962-1995

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[1998.0074] Papers of William E James