Hits and Misses: Autobiographical memoir of Sir Richard Paget

Scope and Content

Typewritten. Divided into chapters, with descriptions added in pencil later:
I - Early Life
II - Leisure at Oxford
III - Round the World
IV - Crossing the Bar
V - Women & Children first
VI - Industrial Progeny
VII - Planning ahead
VIII - War & Peace
IX - Fun & Games
X - Physics with Tears
XI - Catle in the air
XII - Be not ashamed of your handicrafts
XIII - Artificial speech
XIV - Origin of speech
XV - Sign language and the Born Deaf
XVI - Envoi
With an appendix comprising of an addenda to Chapter VI on Early Thermal Syndicate Experiments

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Dr. Pierre Gorman via Dr. Kevin Murphy, FEB 2004

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