Chatley, Herbert, 1885 - 1955 (engineer and historian)
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to Sir Frederick Handley Page of London, enquiring about his knowledge of the fenestrated rudder on Chinese junks as the possible ancestor of the slotted wing of aircraft, and related documents, 1952-03-02 - 1952-03-31
The related documents comprise F. Handley Page's reply; letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, about Handley Page's work on the slotted wing; related notes.
Correspondence with Mrs A. C. Simmons in Bermuda, about the papers and books of her father, Herbert Chatley, and other matters, 1968-03-06 - 1969-01-09
Other matters discussed include Simmons' hobby collecting Chinese historical costume; Simmons' upbringing in China; the procurement of Chinese books on science and technology.
Correspondence with Nelly Chatley and Mrs [?] Simmons, wife and daughter of Herbert Chatley, dedicatee of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 4, Part 3', 1955-06-06 - 1972-09-13
The documents include letter to Mrs Chatley dicussing the dedication and the preservation of Chatley's notebooks; letter of reply providing details of Herbert Chatley's life; letter from Mrs Simmons thanking Joseph Needham for the dedication.
Corresponndence with Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, relating to the abortive suggestion that he should collaborate with Joseph Needham on the engineering section of 'Science and Civilisation in China', 1951-04-23 - 1951-05-02
The documents comprise part of 2 letters from Chatley; copy of part of 1 letter from Joseph Needham.
Four letters from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, commenting on Joseph Needham's 'manuscript on Civil Engineering in China', and copy of Needham's reply, 1952-06-20 - 1952-11-11
Much of the correspondence is with A. W. Skempton of Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
Joseph Needham's notes from an article by B. Laufer 'Optical Lenses in China', ('T'oung Pao', 1915), 1949-01-13 - 1959
The notes include part of a letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, containing a relevant reference.
Letter from Herbert Chatley in Bath, Somerset, about the windmill in China, and attached notes, 1948-10-15
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, about references to Szechuanese salt wells, copy of Joseph Needham's reply and related notes, 1952-02-27 - 1952-02-29
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, about the possibility that the Persian writer Rashid ed-Din mentioned the compass in his work, 1950-10-20
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, providing a reference to Vitruvius concerning the noria and discussing other water raising machinery, 1948-11-09
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Letter from Stephen Feldman of Asian Rare Books Inc, New York City, U.S.A., forwarding some 'interesting old material that just tumbled out of a tome' about windmills, 1941-04-20 - 1979-05-02
The material is a copy of a letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, to Dr. Esson M. Gale of Michingan, U.S.A., about the evolution of the windmill in China, (20 April 1941) (the letter was sent by Gale to L. Carrington Goodrich, (13 May 1941); copy of Goodrich's letter of reply to Gale, (10 July 1941).
Letters from Nelly Chatley and R. W. Sloley about the health of Dr. Herbert Chatley, 1954-11-13 - 1954-11-18
These files of correspondence are particularly interesting as they provide an insight into people’s opinion of the volumes. Joseph Needham opened a file each time a volume was published.
'Papers found in Herbert Chatley's copy of O S Johnson's 'Study of Chinese Alchemy', 1928', 1928-05-05 - 1955-05
The papers were found in May 1955. They comprise a letter from [S?] Couling of the Royal Asiatic Society to Chatley inviting him to review Obediah S. Johnson, 'A Study of Chinese Alchemy', (Shanghai, 1928); manuscript draft of Chatley's review; copy of Chatley's review of the work as published in 'North China Daily News', 9 May 1928.
Part of a letter from Herbert Chately of Bath, Somerset, about the translation of a 《淮南子》 [Huai Nan Tzu / Huai Nan Zi] passage about burning mirrors and related notes by Joseph Needham, 1948-10-24
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Part of a letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, about references to magic mirrors and attached translation of a passage from 《夢溪筆談》 [Meng Chhi Pi Than / Meng Qi Bi Tan] about 'through-light-mirrors', 1948-11-06
There is also a Joseph Needham note that Chatley 'remembers that in Japan there are even now 'magic mirrors' for sale which have 字 embossed (cast) on the back and are polished under very high pressure so that on reflection the 字 appear'.
Part of a letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, about the 'Great Bear & Compass' and 'Lun Heng and magnetic needle', and attached notes by Joseph Needham, 1948-11-06
Joseph Needham's file title also reads '(& medical), & Amber'
Part of a letter from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, providing a reference to E. Widemann and F. Hauser, 'Über Vorrichtungen zum Heben von Wasser in d. Islamischen Welt', ('Beiträge z. Geschichte d. Technik u. Industrie', 1918), 1948-11-06
The documents also inculde Joseph Needham's notes; photograph of an illustration from the article.
Parts of two letters from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, about the effects of the moon, 1948-09-17 - 1949-10-25
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Two Letters from Herbert Chatley in Bath, Somerset, about the publication of his work on Far Eastern Engineering, and other matters, 1954-03-23 - 1954-03-26
Other matters discussed include the exchange of offprints.
Two letters from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, about the 'Chinese windlass', 1952-11-14 - 1952-12-16
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Two letters from Herbert Chatley of Bath, Somerset, commenting on a draft of the 'Science and Civilisation in China' section on mechanical engineering, 1952-11-28 - 1952-12-20
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.