Robert Henry Thurston papers

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Identifier: 16-2-40

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Abstract

Correspondence, reprints, photograph album from Brown University, Class of 1859 and diplomas. The correspondence concerns experiments, inventions, engineering and scientific problems, scientific machinery and instruments.

Dates

1859-1902.

Creator

Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903. (Person)
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902 (Person)
Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905. (Person)
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922. (Person)
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892. (Person)
Cornell, Alonzo B., 1832-1904. (Person)
Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell), 1834-1928. (Person)
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931. (Person)
Ericsson, John, 1803-1889. (Person)
Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908. (Person)
Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903. (Person)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914. (Person)
Isherwood, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1822-1915. (Person)
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907. (Person)
Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906. (Person)
Low, Seth, 1782-1853. (Person)
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884. (Person)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910. (Person)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919. (Person)
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Director of Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, Cornell University.

Extent

1.4 cubic feet. (1.4 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Physical Description

Correspondence, reprints, a photograph album, and diplomas.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: N. Dean
Date completed:: November 1991
EAD encoding:: Martin Heggestad, February 2004
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, July 2018