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Robert M. Wheeler Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0140
Abstract
Documents and photographs assembled by Robert M. Wheeler primarily of the portion of his career as Mine Captain of No. 3 mine at the Cornwall Iron Mine, a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. His contributions to the iron ore operation in the Cornwall Iron Mine as well as other mines belonging to the Bethlehem Cornwall Corporation were valued by the Bethlehem executives based on the correspondence content. Mr. Wheeler’s material gives an insight into open pit and underground mining...
Dates:
1956 - 1984
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Ventilation Investigation Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel (Holland Tunnel)
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0118
Abstract
A detailed pioneering engineering report determining the ventilation criteria for an underwater vehicular tunnel which became known as the Holland Tunnel. At its time of opening in 1927 the Holland Tunnel was known as the “eighth wonder of the world.”
Dates:
1921-1922
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
William C. Bowie Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0364
Abstract
Four scrapbooks containing miscellaneous newspaper clippings, correspondence. Each volume individually indexed. The materials in the scrapbooks are not arranged chronologically throughout: Vol. 1 1891-1937; Vol 2 1919-1937; Vol. 3 1916-1937, Vol. 4 1889-1939. William C. Bowie's career in scientific research in the theory of isostasy and its application to dynamics and structural geology is reflected in these scrapbooks.
Dates:
1889-1929
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections