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Civil engineers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Location of Pipes in the Lehigh University Park

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0200
Abstract

An historical engineering viewpoint of the campus facilities of 1885 with small location maps of buildings, streets, water and gas pipes drawn by survey measurements.

Dates: June-July 1885

Louis Edouard Rivot Lectures on Mining Engineering

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0355
Abstract

Handwritten lecture notes in French which became the basis for a popular mining engineers field handbook in the late Nineteenth Century. The lectures were given by Professor Louis Edouard Rivot at Ecole Imperiale des Mines in Paris and the notes taken by his student Rothwell. The manuscripts owned by Eckley B. Coxe then donated to Lehigh in 1897.

Dates: 1859 - 1861

Market Street Bridge/Kittanning Bridge 1932

 Collection
Identifier: SC Photo-0019
Abstract

The collection shows a series of construction photos of a Pennsylvania Department of Highways Parker Through Truss Bridge built by the McClintic-Marshall Company. The bridge is known as the Market Street Bridge or the Kittanning Bridge and carries Business US 422 over the Allegheny River from Kittanning, PA to Applewold on the opposite bank. Also very cursorily are a few photos and brief description of the Brewery Bridge in Latrobe, PA.

Dates: 1931-1932; Majority of material found within 1931-1932, 1958

Matthew Currie Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS0416
Scope and Contents

The collection material consists of three research pamphlets unrelated to each other except by age.

Dates: 1929 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1937

Mexican Political Pamphlets

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0216
Abstract

A 3-box collection of broadsides and pamphlets referencing the political issues of Mexico and their domestic and international struggles from the early 1800’s until the mid-1840s.

Dates: 1808 - 1845

[Panama Canal]: Memoria y Planos de un Anteproyecto para la Terminacion del Canal de Panama

 File
Identifier: SC MS 0258
Scope and Contents The collection is a single manuscript measuring 21.5 x 15.5 cm. stored in a black paper wrapped box measuring 27 x 22 x 3 cm. The manuscript is contained within stiff card paper covers of burgundy colored paper with gilt title “Memoria y Planos de un anteprocyecto para la terminacion del Canal De Panamá por D. Gabriel M. Campo” and decorative borders. The pages are edged in red. It is illustrated with three folded plans including two blue prints: Proyecto de construccion en túnel Plano,...
Dates: 1892-1894

Papers of Prof. Albert William De Neufville, Lehigh University, Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0024
Abstract Prof. Albert William De Neufville Papers contain documents related to the projects and reports for government agencies and industry; presentations at professional meetings, his dissertation and other writings pertaining mathematical problems and analyses in fluid mechanics, tensor analysis, vectors, versors and airfoils. There are also documents related to his teaching, such as class notes, problems and quizzes for basic and advanced courses in mechanics, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics at...
Dates: 1952-1966

Philip I. and Muriel M. Berman Papers Collection II

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0115
Scope and Contents The Philip I. and Muriel M. Berman Papers: Collection II provides extensive documentation of the various interrelated interests and activities of Philip and Muriel Berman. These include their involvement with Jewish causes, such as State of Israel Bonds, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Publication Society, and Hadassah; collecting art (especially outdoor sculpture), donating art (especially to educational institutions and hospitals), and encouraging artists (Israeli artists among...
Dates: 1863 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1943 - 1997

Photo Album of Bridges by G. W. Philips

 Collection — Volume PHOTO0018.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0018
Abstract The album contains a collection of photographs of six Pennsylvania bridges and several railroad works possibly inspected by G. W. Philips in a period from 1900 to 1930. Perhaps the most well-known Pennsylvania bridge is the multi concrete arch Hyner Bridge over the Susquehanna River near Renovo, Pennsylvania. The Hell Gate Bridge over the East River in New York City is an anomaly among the construction photographs in the album as the only New York bridge. The album is an interesting...
Dates: 1900-1930; Majority of material found within 1900-1930

Photograph Album of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. Kimberley, South Africa 1899-1905

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0230
Abstract

This collection of photographs records the careers of two Lehigh alumni in mining engineering and illustrate the diamond mining procedures in South Africa of the world’s most famous mining conglomerate – De Beers, from 1899 to 1905.

Dates: 1899-1905