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Mechanical engineering -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Roger W. Parkhurst notebooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065231171]
Identifier: 37-5-805
Scope and content

Lecture notes, reports, problems, charts and other class work for courses in geology, mechanical engineering, water power engineering, and astronomy.

Dates: 1909-1913.

Samuel Matthews Vauclain class notes and thesis

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064718715]
Identifier: 37-5-2486
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1901-1902.

Senior mechanical engineering lab reports and scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3365
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1913-1917.

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Director's records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-5-993
Scope and content

Director's records, include information on engineering organizations, university committees, curriculum, Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, diesel engine course, Extension, research, teacher training, Turkish students, veterans, V-12 program, and war deaths.

Dates: 1917-1956.

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering records

 Collection
Identifier: 16-5-1151
Abstract

Includes correspondence, course material, lantern slides, and equipment manuals of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, formerly the Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering. Also the papers of Charles Osborn Mackey, Howard N. Fairchild, and Frank Oakes Ellenwood.

Dates: 1917-2009.

William Holcombe Hill student notebooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065210134]
Identifier: 37-5-1660
Scope and content

Three manuscript volumes of junior and senior electrical and mechanical reports; and two printed volumes, "Yacht, Ship and Steamboat Fixtures," and "Catalogue, J. Snelling & Co."

Dates: 1920-1922.