Showing 415 results

Letter from Mary Hawitt at [Meron] to James Young

• GB 249 T-YOU-2-144
• Item
• 27 December [ ]

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Wishing Young well for the New Year.

Letter from Donald MacLeod at Glasgow to [James Young]

• GB 249 T-YOU-2-145
• Item
• 11 March [ ]

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Regarding the publication of the David Livingstone papers.

Supporting material relating to James Young

• GB 249 T-YOU-8
• Series
• 1837 - 1977

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

'The remarkable Mr Young' article and correspondence by Joseph A. Callanan

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-66
• Item
• 1976 - 1977

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Article published in 'The Lamp’ 1976 and reprint in Dutch for ‘Essobron’ 1977 including correspondence from 17 March 1977 to 21 November 1977 with the publishers and the University of Strathclyde.

Oil for the lamps of Norway

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-65
• Item
• 1975

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Photocopy of chapter on paraffin produced at Mandal, Norway from 1862 using Young’s processes in VAMPLEW, W Salvesen of Leith Scottish Academic Press pp. 55-73.

'Oil the Early Days' cuttings from 1974 ‘Motor’ magazine

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-64
• Item
• 31 August 1974

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Cuttings from 1974 Motor magazine pp. 49-55 on the early oil pioneers including erroneous information on James Young stating that he was a Persian oil pioneer who personally treated many thousands of medical cases.

'North Sea Oil completes a historic circle' newscutting from Glasgow Herald

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-63
• Item
• 23 February 1974

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

As Oil-starved Americans turn to shale...Scots show the way

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-61
• Item
• 19 September 1973

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Newscutting of an article on Scottish Shale Oil Industry mentioning James Young in Glasgow Evening Citizen 1973.

'The Life and Times of Paraffin Young' by John Goldblatt

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-62
• Item
• 1973

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Article in the ‘Esso Magazine’ Volume 22 No. 2, pp. 21-25.

Newspaper article ‘Claim jumpers’ about the Livingstone Development Corporation stand at the Offshore Exhibition at Aberdeen

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-60
• Item
• 6 April 1973

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Includes photograph of Young’s great-great- granddaughter Mrs Elizabeth MacKenzie. Newspaper cutting from West Lothian Courier.

Early Teachers and Teaching of Chemical Engineering

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-50
• File
• 1969 - 1971

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Reprinted articles from ‘The Chemical Engineer’ No.231 October 1969 and No.254 October 1971 with reference to James Young and the Young Chair of Technical Chemistry.

Centenary lecture at Strathclyde: The Oil industry’s debt to Dr. James Young

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-56
• Item
• January 1971

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Newscutting from the Scottish News No.43, 1971.

'What the oil industry owes to Dr James Young' by F.M. Cook

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-58
• Item
• 29 May 1971

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Draft paper and published edition in ‘Chemistry and Industry’ 1971 presented on the occasion of the centenary of the Young Chair of Technical Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in 1970.

Memorandum relating to paintings by Salvator Rosa from the collection of James Young

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-57
• Item
• 21 April 1971

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers

Includes information on 'The Baptism of Jordan’ and 'The Baptist in the wilderness’. Typed memorandum. By C.G. Wood.

Programme for the commemoration of the centenary of the Young Chair of Chemical Technology

• GB 249 T-YOU-8-53
• Item
• 1970

Part of James 'Paraffin' Young papers