Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Francis C. Moon Reuleaux reference collection
Collection
Identifier: 6960
Abstract
Papers regarding German engineer Franz Reuleaux and the collection of his kinematic models housed at Cornell University. Papers were assembled by Cornell Professor of Engineering Frank Moon during the late 1990's and early 2000's, particularly during research trips to Germany. They include Moon's research notes on Reuleaux and Reuleaux's influence, biography and genealogy; photocopies and transcriptions of letters, essays and drawings created by Reuleaux; Moon's academic papers and...
Dates:
1841-2010
Robert Henry Thurston papers
Collection
Identifier: 16-2-40
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1859-1902.
Robert Henry Thurston scrapbook
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941739]
Identifier: 16-5-1223
Scope and content
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on mechanical engineering topics. Many of the articles focus on the investigation following the explosion of the Westfield, including testimony and reports of various engineers, including a report by Thurston himself. Several other articles describe the exhibits at the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873. In creating the scrapbook, Thurston reused a ledger from the firm R.L. Thurston & Co. (1842-1844), which did engine repairs and related work for its...
Dates:
1842-1844, 1869-1873.
Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts miscellany
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-5-1216
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...
Dates:
1874-1902.
Sibley College reports, theses and course materials
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-5-508
Abstract
Course materials, theses, and other materials pertaining to Sibley College.
Dates:
circa 1889-1907.
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- Subject: Mechanical engineering. X
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- Mechanical engineering -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
- Mechanical engineering. 2
- Photographs 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Cornell University 1
- Cyanotypes. 1
- Engineering -- Instruments. 1
- Engineering -- Study and teaching. 1
- Exhibitions. 1
- Kinematics. 1
- Ledgers (account books) 1
- Machine design -- history. 1
- Machinery -- Models. 1
- Machinery, Kinematics of 1
- Marine engineering. 1
- Mechanical engineering -- History. 1
- Mechanical engineering -- Study and teaching. 1
- Science -- study and teaching -- digital libraries 1
- Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts 1
- Steel. 1 + ∧ less
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