Abstract

Charles Raine Pettyjohn (November 11, 1896-March 25, 1982) was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. The collection contains bound volumes of lecture notes and lab notes for courses in engineering and physics at Cornell dating 1914-1918 and other items documenting life at Cornell and Phi Delta Theta.

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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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.

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...