Manuscripts
Construction and operation of an experimental high-tension transmission line
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Copy of Report, "Construction and Operation of Direct-Current, High Voltage, Large-Power Transmission
Manuscripts
The collection deals primarily with the professional and personal activities of Samuel Brooks Morris, a civil engineer of note in Southern California who was most active from the 1930s into the early 1960s. The collection deals with local (Pasadena and Los Angeles), state and national engineering concerns, largely related to water reclamation, dams, hydrogeology, water litigation, and a wide range of related technical publications. The material consists of a highly diverse mix of manuscripts and printed materials, including correspondence, maps, notes, charts, fliers, and brochures, often interspersed within each folder. The correspondence is primarly to and from colleagues, but also includes discusion with government officials at all levels from local to national. The collection includes a small number of photographs, located in appropriate sections of the collection by subject.
mssMorris, Samuel papers
The big "bull wheel" tensioning devices for 500kV transmission line construction were much larger than their 220kV ancestors used in the building of the Hoover Dam lines
Visual Materials
The big "bull wheel" tensioning devices for 500kV transmission line construction were much larger than their 220kV ancestors used in the building of the Hoover Dam lines. Pg. 222.
photCL SCE 11 - 00447
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Hereford of Sufton Court
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Extensive genealogy of the Hereford family, beginning with a history of their origins in England. Includes color illustrations of Hereford family members and typescripts of wills, land grants, and some correspondence. In addition to the Hereford genealogy, the volume includes detailed excursus for the families of Ammon, Ball, Barnes, Beale/Carter, Berry, Brice/Shaw, Bohun, Bronaugh, Chunn, Cole, Doherty, Flowerree, Foote, Garner, Garnett, Genhry, George, Harrison, Kerns/Boyer, Lewis, Mason, Mauze/Mauzey, McClung, Miller, Mockbee/Cook/Hailey, Moise/Loomis, Newman, Page, Patterson, Percy, Reynolds, Shaffer, Shirling, Stribling, Shove, Stone/Short, Strother, Valdez/Rocha and Washington. Includes index. With the volume is a separate sheet of errata. Bound in book form.
mssHM 78053
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Outlines of experimental lectures in natural philosophy delivered at Yale College: manuscript
Manuscripts
This volume is a printed edition of Outlines of experimental lectures in natural philolophy delivered at Yale College, printed in 1828, that includes C. T. Prentice's handwritten notes throughout the entire volume. Also includes folded lecture notes in front cover.
mssHM 71898
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Captain's log for the H.M.S. Blonde's voyage to the Sandwich Islands
Manuscripts
The volume is Byron's handwritten daily account of the H.M.S. Blonde's voyage from England to Hawaii and from Hawaii back to Valparaíso, Chile (June 10, 1824 to November 19, 1825). Byron records longitude and latitude, distance traveled, weather conditions, bearings, and barometer/thermometer readings. Along with those details, Byron records the daily activities and repairs on the ship, the punishments of sailors for various grievances, trading of supplies with other ships, and ports visited including Rio de Janeiro, Cape Horn, and Valparáiso. Byron also notes activities after the ship's arrival in Hawaii including the bodies of the Hawaiian royals taken ashore, his visits from King Kamehameha III and Queen Kaahumanu, the completion of the first monument for Captain James Cook, and the discovery of Malden Island.
mssHM 64596
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A new ballad called the Northamptonshire High Constable
Manuscripts
This bound volume contains a fictionalized dialogue account of a [real?] case of infanticide in Northamptonshire, England, in the 1630s, in which a Puritan preacher named Barker seduced young student Beatrice and conspired with her maidservant Ursula to murder the resulting child when it was born. All three reportedly hanged at Northamptonshire Assizes in 1637
mssHM 60666