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Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925

 Person

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Civil Engineering Surveying Notes, 1880-1898

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0121
Abstract

A historical description of Lehigh University’s campus and its relationship to Bethlehem through surveying notes made by the civil engineering students from Sophomore Classes in the 1880s as recorded in this field notebook. The Surveying classes were under the instruction of Professor Charles L. Doolittle, father of poetess Hilda Doolittle. Some of the student notations were made by H. H. McClintic and C. D. Marshall, who would later form the company that built the Panama Canal gates.

Dates: 1880-1898

Engineering Field Books 1893-1910

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0253
Abstract

Interesting examples of engineering calculations and observations before the age of computers. Some books have calculations recording the Lehigh River flow and flood stages as well as New York City engineering works at the turn of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1893-1910; Majority of material found within 1901-1902

Frank Oliver Dufour Notes

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0189
Abstract This manuscript primarily presents the civil engineering problems from Prof. Mansfield Merriman’s class on “Materials of Mechanics.” Also, included in the notebook is a curious collection of “recipes” for making beer, brick, bread, glass of various types, coloring pottery, glycerine, descriptions of various telegraph systems: duplex differential method as perfected by Frischer, duplex bridge method perfected by Dr. Muirhead, and the Atlantic Cable System as well as a blueprint from the...
Dates: 1896-19??

Hardware Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0256
Abstract

There is a two-fold interest in this item. The actual hardware illustrated within the catalogue that was utilized as a scrapbook for some Lehigh University newspaper articles appearing in many newspapers between 1907 to 1912. The hardware illustrated in the book is now of considerable interest to antique restoration. Much of the hardware reflects the Eastlake and Art Nouveau architectural styles. The newspaper articles feature many interesting features of Lehigh’s history.

Dates: 1897 - 1912; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1912

Lecture notes taken by Albert Beardsley Jessup in Mansfield Merriman Civil Engineering class

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0318
Abstract

The notes pertain to a Construction class taught by Professor Merriman. The topics covered throughout of the lectures give insight into how construction was viewed in the late 1800s, including accepted building materials and construction methods. The meticulousness of the notes testify to Albert Beardsley Jessup’s diligence as a student. The material is also covered in great detail, which emphasizes Professor Merriman’s expertise in the field of civil engineering.

Dates: 1895-06

Professor Mansfield Merriman Lecture Notes Taken by Edgar A. Borhek, 1904

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0266
Abstract

The lecture notes reflect an interesting view into the field of civil engineering at the turn of the twentieth century. The notes indicate that a student in civil engineering was expected to have a multidisciplinary diversity. Some examples given in the lectures illustrate the broad field of knowledge possessed by Professor Mansfield Merriman.

Dates: 1904

Robert Blum Olney Bridge Design Class Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0226
Abstract This manuscript contains three bridge design class exercises indicating the instructional process to train engineering students. Specific step-by-step instruction in designing for various railroad bridge spans, building material specifications, structural loads and stresses to be considered as presented in the professor’s lecture. The complete process of calculating the design with comparisons of different conditions, as well as material available, costs incurred of every aspect of the...
Dates: 1891 - 1892

Speeches of Henry Sturgis Drinker President of Lehigh University

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0020
Abstract

Typescripts of speeches, many with additional penciled-in notes, given by Dr. Drinker as president of Lehigh University, as president of the American Forestry Association, and as a supporter of war preparedness and the Student Army Training Corps movement.

Dates: 1905 - 1929

William J. Eney papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0117
Abstract Documents and photographs related to Lehigh University Civil Engineering faculty William J. Eney's early teaching years (1930s) at civil engineering summer camps (Canadensis, Pa.) including his lecture documents on bridge engineering, his own invention of testing equipment, correspondence between Smithsonian Institution and Lehigh University about Eney Deformeter, photographs and documents about construction of Fritz Engineering Laboratory addition and Baldwin Universal Testing Machine...
Dates: 1900 - 1982

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Notebooks 5
Civil engineers 4
Bridge engineering 3
Civil engineering 3
Lehigh University 3
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South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 3
Civil engineering--Study and teaching 2
Fritz Engineering Laboratory. 2
Lehigh River (Pa.) 2
Lehigh University -- Alumni and alumnae 2
Musconetong Tunnel 2
Packer Hall 2
Sayre Observatory 2
Structural engineering 2
Students 2
American Conservation Congress 1
American Forestry Association 1
Army R. O. T. C. 1
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 1
Atlantic telegraph cable system 1
Atlas Cement Company 1
Baldwin Universal Testing Machine 1
Belmont Tunnel New York City 1
Bench marks—Pennsylvania—Allentown. 1
Bench marks—Pennsylvania—Lehigh River. 1
Bench marks—Pennsylvania—South Bethlehem. 1
Bethlehem (Pa.) 1
Bethlehem Preparatory School 1
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1
Bridges 1
Bridges – Québec (Province) -- Québec. 1
Bridges – Switzerland 1
Bridges-- 1
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn Lehigh Club 1
Bucknell University 1
Buffalo Lehigh University Club 1
Calypso Island – Lehigh River 1
Canadensis (Pa.) 1
Chicago Drainage Canal 1
Chicago Lehigh Club 1
Christian Bleich House 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Commonplace book 1
Conservation of natural resources--United States. 1
Construction drawings. 1
Correspondences 1
Coxe Laboratory 1
Drexel Institute 1
Drown Memorial Hall. 1
E. P. Wilbur Trust Company 1
Eads Bridge (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
East Penn Junction 1
East River, New York 1
Education, Higher 1
Eney deformeter 1
Englewood, New Jersey 1
Environmental Engineering 1
Erie Canal (N.Y.) 1
Extension School 1
Eyebar pin-connected bridges 1
Field notes 1
Fink Truss bridge 1
Flatbush Avenue Terminal 1
Forestry 1
Handwritten Notes 1
Harlem River (N.Y.) 1
Hudson River, New York 1
Hydraulics Laboratory 1
Influenza--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem. 1
Ingersoll Rand Company 1
Jersey City (N.J.) 1
John Danner House 1
Keneseth Israel Allentown 1
Lamberton Hall 1
Lecture notes 1
Lehigh Canal (Pa.) 1
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 1
Lehigh University -- Campus 1
Lehigh University – Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1
Lehigh University--Faculty 1
Lehigh University. Presidents. 1
Lehigh Valley Coal Company 1
Lehigh Valley Rail Road 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Liverpool 1
Long Island City 1
Louisville, Ky. Boys’ High School 1
Manatawny Bessemer Iron Ore Company 1
Manhattan Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Maryland Conservation Association 1
Mauch Chunk (Pa.) 1
Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Railroad 1
McClintic-Marshall 1
Military Training Camps Association 1
Mining and Mechanical Institute of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania 1
Mining engineering 1
Monocacy Creek, Bethlehem, PA. 1
Moravian Seminary 1
Morris Canal (N.J.) 1
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