Janus: Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/120/2 contains:
1	Cutting of a 'Times' [?] article by John Chartres entitled 'Pipeline idea is not just a dream' about the Tyne Tunnel and plans for other road tunnels
2	Copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to the Director of the University of Pennsylvannia Museum, U.S.A. about a Chinese painting of a 'hydraulic engineering work proceeding under the guidance of the lgendary culture-hero Yü the Great', and attached note
3	Photograph published in 'New Hungary' showing scientists studying Danube currents with the aid of floating lights
4	Letter from Denis Twitchett about early methods of surveying in China, and related notes
5	Name card and contact details for Kobori Iwao historical geographer of Tokyo, Japan, who is 'interested in qanats'
6	Cutting of a 'Times' [?] article entitled 'River will go under The Rockies' about an irrigation project
7	Photographs of ????? [Hsia Yü Chih Shui Thu / Xia Yu Zhi Shui Tu]; a Ming painting by Ma Wan, on the semi-legendary theme of Yü the Great organising the control of the waters, (1417)
8	Letter from John L. Bishop of the 'Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies', inviting Joseph Needham to review Yang Lien-Sheng [Yang Liansheng], 'Les aspects economiques des travaux publics dans la Chine impériale', (Paris, 1964)
9	Letter from Lieut. Cdr. D. W. Waters of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, about dredging in China, and related documents
10	Letter from Roland Berger in Turfan Sinkiang, China, about the ancient Kariz (qanat) system of irrigation
11	Photograph of the opening of a Kariz (qanat), on the edge of the oasis in Turfan, Sinkiang, China
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