Early Days. Memories of People and Places

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (661) ◽  
pp. 91-92
Author(s):  
A. Fage
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
First Report ◽  
Advanced Students

Some of my recollections relate to the Aerodynamics Division at the NPL and the ARC, so to refresh my memory of their origin I have referred to the First Report of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics—later renamed Aeronautical Research Committee—for the year 1909–10. It states there that this Committee was appointed on 30th April 1909, that it was to deal with the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution, and that the NPL was to organise, at Teddington, a special department to research and experiment on problems submitted to it; and further, that the Committee had put themselves in communication with the Aeronautical Society, the Royal Aero Club and the Aerial League with a view to rendering such assistance as might be possible in their work, that arrangements had been made at the Imperial College of Science and Technology for lectures in aeronautics for advanced students, and that two research scholarships in aeronautics had been founded.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

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