Professor Emeritus LINDSAY FALVEY
2021
In this essay, I gather some history together with memories and information about Douglas-Daly Experiment Station (DDES) in both personal and professional terms. It is not a history although it contains some information not previously documented and might be used to amplify histories to be written across a wider period. Rather than a diary memoir the essay may be seen as an introductory review followed by snippets that have etched themselves in memory. Neither is it a technical bulletin, although it contains reference to and descriptions of some of the experimental work that I published, which like many items in the late pre-internet world, are not always readily accessible today. As part of a larger exercise to write about influential periods in my life in an ongoing project of self-understanding, this memoir while attempting to be objective is also necessarily subjective – and writing more than 50 years after my first association with DDES, residual thoughts are unlikely to be accurate, but are in any case what remains in my memory and my scant files.
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