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ASLIB Engineering and Technology Group
Summer visit to
Science Museum, Library and Archives, Swindon
on
Friday 5th September 2008
1.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
Join us for a visit led by
Rupert Williams, Head of Library and Archives
The visit is free and open to all
The Science Museum has relocated its outstanding national collection documenting the development of science and technology. The collection contains rare scientific and technical books dating from the 1400s onwards, early science journals from major societies and academies, historic British patents, manufacturers' trade catalogues and other special collections. Amongst many fascinating manuscript letters, personal papers, business records and technical drawings in the Archives are those of such well-known names as Barnes Wallis and Charles Babbage.
SML Swindon
The Science Museum Library and Archives, Swindon, is located at the Hackpen end of the Museum's airfield site at Wroughton, on the edge of Swindon, in Wiltshire, SN4 9LT.
Access it via the Red Barn Gate on the A4361 Devizes Road.
By train - please meet outside Swindon Station for 1 p.m. (Train from London Paddington 12.00 p.m., via Reading 12.27 p.m.)
By car - please meet at the Museum for 1.30 p.m. (http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|sn4%209lt)
For further information
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/about_the_museum/science_library/visitors.aspx
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/about_the_museum/science_library/contact_us.aspx
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