Manuscripts

Manufacturing a legend: Charles Proteus Steinmetz as modern Jove: paper

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Description: The manuscript is the typescript of a paper Kline read at the SHOT meeting in Toronto on October 17, 1980. The subject of the paper is the German-American mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz. The original title was: Shaping the Profession of Electrical Engineering: The Career of Charles Proteus Steinmetz.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1980, November 3.
Call number: mssHM 76725
Creator: Kline, Ronald R(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 28 cm :
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Oliver Heaviside: articles and correspondence about

Manuscripts

Copies of three articles written by B. R. Gossick about English electrical engineer, physicist, and mathematician Oliver Heaviside, dated 1968 (29 pages), 1973 (15 pages), and 1974 (2 pages). Also includes three letters dated 1968 between Bern Dibner and William J. Crouch, editor of the University of Kentucky Press, regarding Dibner's review of the 1968 article and another article by Gossick, regarding Charles Wheatstone, for publication; and three letters, two dated 1968 and one dated 1975, between Gossick and Dibner regarding the articles on Heaviside.

mssHM 83033-83035

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Charles Leroy Lowman Papers

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This collection contains material related to Dr. Charles Leroy Lowman's book Techniques of Underwater Gymnastics, published by American Publications in 1937. The collection is housed in two grey upright boxes and is organized alphabetically by folder title. Box 1 contains Lowman's handwritten notes on the chapters of the book, material relating to the medical profession and other practitioners of hydrotherapy, correspondence regarding his techniques and the book's publication, and many photographs of treatment facilities and of orthopedic techniques and exercises. Box 2 contains a draft and proof versions of his monograph, and includes editorial markings and revisions on the documents themselves.

mssLowman

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Christiaan Huygens : Mutual space-time synchronization between clocks : paper

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This article, authored by William C. Lindsey and Jorge M. N. Pereira, is a translation and analysis of the Latin manuscript, written in 1665 by the Dutch astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens, concerning mutual space-time synchronization. This paper was submitted to the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991.

mssHM 75951

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Charles Sumner papers

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Primarily letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana (Leveson-Gower) Campbell, Duchess of Argyll regarding relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; letters also discuss Reconstruction and Andrew Johnson.

mssHM 51903-51972

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Charles William Watts papers

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A collection of 91 items from 1897 to 1963, which consists chiefly of letters written by Charles William Watts to his wife and daughter between 1897 and 1900. The letters are written from Alaska, including Juneau, Sheep Camp, Skagway, the Yukon River Valley, Dawson, and the Klondike River Valley. Watts's letters describe the Klondike gold rush and life in Alaska and in the Yukon. The collection also contains a photograph of Charles William Watts with a group of hunters and various clippings. There are also a few letters and notes written in 1963 by Lee Rohrbough.

mssHM 48341-48427

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Charles V. Walker papers

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All of these letters deal with the business of the Atlantic Telegraph Company and the telegraph cable. The majority of the letters are written to Charles V. Walker (although there are four written by him). The authors of the letters include: Wildman Whitehouse, chief electrician of the Atlantic Telegraph Company (6); George Saward, secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company (6); Robert Main of the Royal Observatory (1); and Thomas Pollock (1). There are also three pieces of ephemera.

mssHM 81185-81204

Manufacturing a legend: Charles Proteus Steinmetz as modern Jove: paper

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