Box 0100.02

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Schuster Engineering Company, May 20, 1917, "Report of Loading Tests Made Upon Three Schuster System Reinforced Hollow Tile Floors Installed By the Schuster Engineering Company, 21 Park Row, New York City" Includes report, data, and blueprints of testing. Also includes pictures of the testing site and workers and engineers on site.

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Department of the Interior, John Barton Payne, Secretary, U.S. Geological Survey, George Otis Smith, Director, 1920 reprint of July 1912 map. Topographical map of Mariposa Quadrangle in California created by the State of California Department of Engineering.

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Bureau of Public Roads, December 1920, "Results of Earth Pressure Tests from Bureau of Public Roads." Includes blueprints of tests and data from the tests.

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Willis Slater, 1921, "Shear Tests at Lehigh University." Table of contents to a report that is not available.

Scope and Contents Willis Slater, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Standards, August 24, 1921, "Permissible Stresses for Steel in Buildings." This is a memo written by Slater pertaining to the stresses allowed in steel buildings. This became an issue due to the increase in permissible stress in Buffalo, NY in order to expand the Hotel Statler. The memo includes an introduction from Slater, an attached letter from F. E. Turneaure, Dean of the College of Mechanics and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin,...

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Willis Slater, American Association of Engineers, January 28, 1922 to February 25, 1922. The Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed on January 28, 1922 and killed ninety seven people. These papers include reports on the cause of the failure, calculations and diagrams detailing the incident, and correspondence on the the investigation team and one from C.R. Thomas, Manager of "The Engineer's Business Magazine."

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Collection pertaining to the testing and optimization of building brick ovens.

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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Willis Slater and Inge Lyse, Dec. 28, 1925 to April 30, 1926,

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Willis Slater, Sections: 1. Computations, diagrams, and test results on product of surface area and average diameter of grains, 2. Computations and Notes on R.C. Mine Stoppings, 3. Computations of spiral columns made in reply to letter from Ohio stadium roof, 4. Computations of reinforced corre floors for houses.