Collection of photocopies of Joseph Needham's notes, correspondence and other documents, relating to gunpowder, 1948 - 1985

File

Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/157/5

Scope and Contents

Needham notes that these were 'probably xeroxed for H P-Y [Ho Peng-Yoke] or WL [Wang Ling]'. Most of the original documents are catalogued in SCC2/139-151. The documents also include photocopies of Tenny L. Davis, 'Early Pyrotechnics'', ('Ordnance, 1948); copy of Nambo Heizo's article, 'Who Invented Explosives?', ('Journal of the Industrial Explosives Society, Japan', 1967), and English translation of same.

Dates

Creation: 1948 - 1985

Extent

1 bundle(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Japanese

Czech

Additional Description

Date information

DateText: It is unclear when the copies were made. Probably late 1970s or early 1980s?]. The copies are of documents dating from between 1948 and 1971..