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Six volumes of lecture notes, problems, and lab reports relating to the mechanical and electrical engineering course work of Jacob Moses Fried at Cornell University.

Scope and content Scrapbook and volume documenting Tuvin's experience as a mechanical engineering student at Cornell. Volume titled Mechanical Engineering Experiments Performed at Sibley College Cornell University by Julius Harold Tuvin, October 1912. The volume has both typed and manuscript pages and includes, text, graphs, illustrations and photographs of experiments and equipment in the Sibley laboratory. The preface says that the volume represents the results of one scholastic year's work performed during...

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Appointment announcements of the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts.

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Correspondence, reprints, photograph album from Brown University, Class of 1859 and diplomas. The correspondence concerns experiments, inventions, engineering and scientific problems, scientific machinery and instruments.

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Notebooks documenting the typical steam-intensive curriculum based on "hands-on" experience with the then current machinery. The written work and draughtsmanship tell much about the standards at Cornell for the period.

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Volume of laboratory notes, charts, and photographs. Scrapbook and loose memorabilia documenting his student experience at Cornell University. Includes loose clippings, photographs, programs, and other items.

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Typewritten minutes of faculty meetings, signed by the College's director, Albert W. Smith; and some related correspondence. Issues discussed include admission requirements, degree requirements, new courses, and decisions on granting degrees or fellowships in individual cases.

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Draft letter, 1883 about the Cornell water supply; and correspondence, invoices, and contracts about proposed new shops and a tunnel. Also a photo of Sibley College seniors conducting "Cornell Tests" under the direction of Professor R. C. Carpenter at Milwaukee's old North Point Pumping Station in 1893.

Scope and content Printed Director's reports on the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering (1885-1887), scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings on the College and Thurston's statements and activities (1874-1902), and plans drawn by students for courses offered in the College on forging and machines (1889-1891). Also, an enlarged version of the cover of Scientific American, October 17, 1885, with wood engravings showing the interior and exterior of Sibley College and surrounding scenery on the Cornell...

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Includes mimeo and handwritten notes, possibly for lectures and books, on "Dimensional Analysis," "Heat Transmission," "Wind Tunnel Test," "Measurement Flow of Fluids," and others; also, material collected by Andrae on Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and his works.