Fritz Lab Project 237 Newspaper Articles and Pictures, 1952-1956
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of binder cover: PROJECT 237 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES and PICTURES 237.126; title page: NEWS RELEASES Project 237; Brown and White Tuesday, December 15, 1952 Testing Lab Center to Cost $1 Million (front page of Brown and White); The Bethlehem Globe-Times Friday, October 14, 1955 Technology Won’t Stand Still Fritz Engineering Laboratory Hailed As Giving Lehigh Lead in Test Field; This Month At Lehigh February, 1956 Giant Machine Tests Specimen for Long Highway Bridge in La., Hale Sutherland Retires As Civil Engineering Teacher; Brown and White February 24, 1956, 70-Ft. Bridge Beam Tested In Lehigh Lab First Test of Its Kind in New Laboratory (two photos of prestressed concrete beam as largest specimen even to enter Fritz Lab); Brown and White March 2, 1956 70-Foot Beam Finally Snaps in Fritz Tests by Pete Burdash; Bethlehem Globe-Times April 4, 1956 Advances in Plastic Steel Design Outlined at Institute Conference; Bethlehem Globe-Times April 6, 1956 Portal Frame Tests Close Lehigh Parley; Sunday Call-Chronicle April 22, 1956 A Challenge – The newy installed Amsler machine; Sunday Call-Chronicle April 22, 1956 New Lehigh University Testing Machines Busy; This Month at Lehigh April 1956 “The Campus Was The Setting For The National Conference Of The A.I.S.C.”; The Bethlehem Globe-Times, He’s Key Man On Test Job – Kenneth Harpel; Bethlehem Globe-Times Friday, August 24, 1956 Slab Under Scientific ‘Shakes’ To See How Much It Can Take; The Bethlehem Globe-Times Sept.’56 Lehigh Profs At Cambridge For Seminar – Dr. Bruno Thurlimann and Dr. Robert Ketter; The Bethlehem Globe-Times, October 9, 1956 Making A Cautious Turn – A 65-Foot Concrete Bridge Beam; Brown and White, 10/9/56 22-Ton Concrete Beam Undergoes Strength Tests; The Bethlehem Globe-Times, October ’56, Week’s Tests Crack Big Concrete Beam – 133,000-lb. Pressure Cracks Concrete Beam; one mylar sleeve with three pockets: A. 3 ½” x 5” black and white photo and negative (68-ft prestressed concrete beam in test set up), B. 4” x 6” print (prestressed concrete beam under Baldwin test machine with standing men), C. 3 ½” x 5” negative of previous print.
Dates
- Creation: 1952-1956
Creator
- From the Collection: Fritz Engineering Laboratory (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Extent
From the Collection: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Repository Details
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