Fritz Lab Newspaper Articles, 1958
Scope and Contents
Lehigh Alumni Bulletin January 1958 European Leaders at Fritz Lab; Globe-Times Wednesday Febraury 5, 1958 Lehigh Testing Machine Snaps Beam With 2500 Ton Pressure; Brown and White Friday, Feb. 7, 1958 Fritz Lab Machine Endues Almost Five Million Pounds; Globe-Times April, 1958 Congdon Names Aide To Whitaker, Lehigh President (two civil engineering professors: Bruno Thurlimann and George C. Driscoll also named in article); Globe-Times April 1958 Two Lehigh Men Win Honors For Structural Design Studies (Beedle and Driscoll pictured); Globe-Times, Saturday, July 26, 1958 Unique Plate Girder Tested in Lehigh Lab; Globe-Times Aug. 6, 1958 Bridge Bar Resists Tons Of Pressure (photo of eyebars fabricated to hold cables for Throgs Neck Bridge); The New York Times, Friday, August 8, 1958 Test of Strength (same photo as previous only smaller); Bethlehem Globe-Times August 27, 1958 Could Withstand 100 Years (article describes an aluminum bridge design); Bethlehem Globe-Times 200 Engineers, Designers To See Aluminum Bridge Test At Lehigh; Bethlehem Globe-Times August 30, 1958 Lehigh Tests Cease—So Do House Rattles; Bethlehem Globe-Times August 27, 1958 Engineers Test Limits Of Bridge, New Type Aluminum Span Could Withstand 100 Years; Bethlehem Globe-Times August 29, 1958 City House Rattles and Shakes; Police Suspect Lehigh Lab; The Morning Call September 3, 1958 Bridge Tests Back—Rattles, Too; New York Herald Tribune August 28, 1958 Aluminum Bridge May Cut Road Costs; The Morning-Call Sept. 4, 1958 Quiet Reigns in Area Of Lehigh Bridge Tests; 3 ½” x 5” black and white print attached to page (photo of aluminum bridge at Fritz Lab).
Dates
- Creation: 1958
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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