Description: D311 - Bibby, James and of his son, Bibby, Dr H. Mason

D311 - Bibby, James and of his son, Bibby, Dr H. Mason - [1832], 1898-1973

Notes, taken by James Bibby, on differential calculus lectures given by Prof F S Carey and other papers including: photographs; correspondence and a tape recording of Dr H Mason Bibby describing items in this collection

Archive level description:	Sub-sub fonds
Physical Description:	24 items
Subjects:	Liverpool University

Summary:	Notes, taken by James Bibby, on differential calculus lectures given by Prof F S Carey and other papers including: photographs; correspondence and a tape recording of Dr H Mason Bibby describing items in this collection
Date:	[1832], 1898-1973
Reference Number:	D311
Related Material:	Items housed in the Mason Bibby Board Room, Faculty of Engineering including:framed watercolours, Coniston in Winter and Lakeland Farmhouse, by Kathleen Bibby; framed photographs of Dr Mason Bibby and the opening of the Mason Bibby Board Room in 1983; Dobbie McInnes 1916 Engine Indicator (Patent Steam Engine Indicator No.1, made by Dobbie McInnes Ltd., 57 Bothwell Street, Glasgow) in a wooden box; Bibby Coupling and typescript extract and Dr Mason Bibby's letter of 22 March 1984 about his father's development of the coupling; James Bibby's Fuller Calculator used in his work on torsional vibration (manufactured and/or supplied by W F Stanley and Co. Ltd., 286 high Holborn, London, WC1, in wooden box); long-case clock manufactured by Downing, Liverpool [John Dowing, clockmaker, Liverpool, recorded as working 1770-1807, according to G H Bailie, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the Worl, 3rd edition, London 1972]. The following items were deposited in early 1988: a copy of The Mechanic, Volume 1, 1868, inscribed to Dr Mason Bibby, possibly by his brother and related to the conferment of Dr Bibby's Hon. D.Eng., 1973; a two-sided silver medallion commemorating the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railroad, September 15 1830; framed photograph of staff and final year students of the Faculty of Engineering 1926-1927, when Dr Mason Bibby was a final year student.
Bibliography:	[Book] A short article about Dr Mason Bibby, illustrated by a photograph which includes him and the grandfather clock which he presented to the Faculty of Engineering, see Precinct,January 1984.
Biographical/Administrative Information:	James Bibby (BSc 1899, MSc 1902; HonDEng 1955). Dr Mason Bibby's gift presented to the University Council in 1984 enabled the establishment of a new Chair in the Faculty of Engineering, in memory of his father, to be called the James Bibby Chair of Engineering Manufacture. The Chair will support the developments being undertaken by the University in the area of advanced manufacturing systems and technology. By 2001, the Chair appears to have become the James Bibby Chair of Aerospace Engineering, in honour of the solving of the problem of crankshaft failures in the Graf Zeppelin airship by James Bibby, which enabled it to make flights across the Atlantic.