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Savage, John L., 1879-? (civil engineer)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1944
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0227
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials concerning dams, power plants, and materials testing in China, for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It consists of a bound volume of preliminary reports, with maps, prepared for China's National Resources Commission by John L. Savage, consulting engineer. Includes a report on the Yangtze River Gorge Project (11/1944) and several other Chin...
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1915 - 1980s.
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1089
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs documenting civil and mechanical engineering activities, equipment, facilities, and projects. Some of the subjects are boilers, engines, turbines, lighthouses, aqueducts, bridges, factories, roads, hydroelectric stations, kilns and mills. Few of the images are identified.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Gallagher, James (civil engineer)
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1924-1931
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0228
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials relating to bridge construction in California. Includes a set of drawings for the San Joaquin River Bridge, Mossdale, California (1924), a California Division of Highways Bridge Department Manual (1931), and booklets by the California Highway Commission containing contracts and specifications for the construction of bridges on state highw...
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Dean, W.E., Mrs.
Dean, William E., Jr., -1965 (civil engineer)
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1949-1965
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0230
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Dean's technical papers on pre-stressed concrete bridge construction, standard specifications on such bridges, photographs of bridges and promotional brochures on concrete use; also, biographical material, including an obituary.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Olds, Robert F., 1881- (civil engineer)
- Dates:
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1918-1948
- Size:
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1.2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0231
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains material from fourteen dam construction projects (1918-1946), including notes, blueprints, reports, drawings, and corres¬pondence. In addition there is cost data (1923-1943), equipment and materials testing data (1939-1945), a notebook, photoprints (1926-1938), related journal articles (1927, 1933, 1940), and miscellaneous r...
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Hartung, Marion John, 1886-1978
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1906-1907
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1033
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of two bound volumes of mechanical engineering laboratory reports written by Hartung while he was a student at Cornell University.
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Julian Hinds Collection
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Hinds, Julian, 1881-1975 (civil engineer)
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1881-1975
- Size:
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14.2 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0287
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A letter dated August 4, 1971 from the Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, to Julian Hinds stated: "This is addressed to you as an Honorary Member of the Society at the request of the ASCE Committee on the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering to bring attention to the possibility that you may wish to...
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Learned, Clyde E. (civil engineer)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1949 - 1949
1913-1939
- Size:
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0.4 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0226
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Clyde E. Learned (1885-?) was the senior highway engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, District Three, during the years 1919-1939. He was later a design engineer for the Public Roads Administration, Division Nine, in 1949.
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Burmister, Donald, 1895-
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1927-1974.
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3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1068
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Reports, studies, diagrams, and articles relating to consulting projects undertaken by Burmister concerning beach erosion, building and bridge foundations, airports, highways, docks, piers, bulkheads, and land development.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Vogel, Robert M.
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ca. 1867-ca. 1926.
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1090
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 350 stereo cards of engineering subjects, such as bridges, tunnels, lighthouses, canals, quarries, etc., including both U.S. and foreign subjects.