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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	PEARSON/11/1/11/11
Title	Kennedy, Alexander B W
Date	1884-1889
Date2	1891
Date3	1896
Description	Letters to Pearson regarding lecture syllabuses for engineering and graphics; Kennedy's expedition to the Rockies; inviting Pearson to visit; tests for elasticity in various materials; research into the "breakdown-point"; discovery of the reciprocal of the "thin virtual centres" theorem; his trip to Switzerland; his proposal that engineering students should spend their preliminary years studying science, and then apply that study to engineering; questions about Italian engineering schools; discussion of mathematical problems; recommending holiday homes; discussion of possible career paths for engineers; enclosing a letter from Hunter and English regarding stresses in punched steel plates; and congratulating Pearson on his election to the Royal Society. The letters are accompanied by a typescript summary of Kennedy's work at University College London.
Extent	17 letters plus 2 enclosures
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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