Box 0100.01

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Photographs of floor tests, slab tests, and the construction of a brick oven, 1911-1915. Includes test result photographs, construction workers buildings concrete slabs, and Willis Slater on site, pictured in "Fig. 35".

Scope and Contents of the Collection From the Collection: The scope of the collection includes four series: 1. Slater's student years, in which there is only his master's thesis; 2. University of Illinois Employment, containing test reports that Slater consulted for, most notably the investigation paper from the Knickerbocker Theater disaster; 3. U.S. Bureau of Standards Employment, which contains reports, calculations, and journals belonging to Slater during his time at the bureau, including papers on the Stevenson Creek Dam; 4. Lehigh University...

Scope and Contents of the Collection From the Collection: The scope of the collection includes four series: 1. Slater's student years, in which there is only his master's thesis; 2. University of Illinois Employment, containing test reports that Slater consulted for, most notably the investigation paper from the Knickerbocker Theater disaster; 3. U.S. Bureau of Standards Employment, which contains reports, calculations, and journals belonging to Slater during his time at the bureau, including papers on the Stevenson Creek Dam; 4. Lehigh University...

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Research Department, Corrugated Bar Company, 1911, "A test of corr-plate floors in a factory building for the carlton dry goods company St. Louis, MO." Photographs of the factory and testing sites and a report, data sheets, and blueprints on the testing results and setup.

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Research Department, Corrugated Bar Company, 1911, "Test on a corr-plate floor in the powers warehouse, Minneapolis, Minn." Includes report on testing, data on testing, and blueprints of the test design. Copy of a correspondence from James G. Houghton, Inspector of Buildings to Frank J. Trelease of the Corrugated Bar Company.

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Research Department, Corrugated Bar Company, 1912, "A test of corr-plate floors in an addition to the plant of the Ford Motor Co. Detroit, Mich." Photograph of the test site, report on testing, data from experiment, and blueprints of testing.

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Research Department, Corrugated Bar Company, 1912, "Barr Building Test Panel, report on test of a panel of corr-tile floor construction." Photograph of the test site, report on testing, data from experiment, and blueprints of testing.

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Research Department, Corrugated Bar Company, 1913, "Reinforced Concrete flat slab floors in a silk mill, report on a test of corr-plate floors in a building for the Niagara Silk Mills, Sweeney Industrial Properties, North Tonawanda, N.Y."

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Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, "Bk. 1 Slater's Data," September, 1913 Notes, data, and blueprints from concrete slab testing.

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Research Department, Corrugated Bar Company, October 1913, "Test of corr-plate floor Jersey City Dairy Company's Building, Jersey City, N.J." Report on experiment, data sheets, photographs from testing site, blueprints of test, and correspondence from O. W. Shelly to Corrugated Bar Company