Notebooks
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Engineering Field Books 1893-1910
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0253
Abstract
Interesting examples of engineering calculations and observations before the age of computers. Some books have calculations recording the Lehigh River flow and flood stages as well as New York City engineering works at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1893-1910; Majority of material found within 1901-1902
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Frank Oliver Dufour Notes
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0189
Abstract
This manuscript primarily presents the civil
engineering problems from Prof. Mansfield Merriman’s class on “Materials of Mechanics.” Also,
included in the notebook is a curious collection of “recipes” for making beer, brick, bread,
glass of various types, coloring pottery, glycerine, descriptions of various telegraph systems:
duplex differential method as perfected by Frischer, duplex bridge method perfected by Dr.
Muirhead, and the Atlantic Cable System as well as a blueprint from the...
Dates:
1896-19??
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections