Series 5 - Articles, reports and papers

0.21 m of textual records

This series includes manuscripts, drafts, research notes and correspondence relating to published and unpublished articles, research reports and papers. It documents Ham’s early engineering research relating to automatic control as it applies to stereo mapping and steel mills. Notes and correspondence relating to his patent on an apparatus for general electronic integration, which evolved out of his doctoral thesis, can also be found in this series. Later works relate more specifically to his work in higher education, the engineering profession and issues relating to technology. Included is an essay entitled The Megalock: an Essay on the Technological Evolution of Form through Growth, which he wrote in 1974 but it was never published. He writes in his introduction that the essay “is designed to stimulate dialogue between humanists and engineers on the nature and puzzles of technology”. He goes on to say that it is useful to engineers who are “prepared to free their minds of the entrapping clutter of specialised technical knowledge.” The ideas espoused in this essay speak to his uniqueness as an engineer and educator. Arrangement is chronological.

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