Robert Henry Thurston papers
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Scope and content
The Robert Henry Thurston papers include correspondence, reprints, a photograph album from Brown University (Class of 1859) and diplomas, and one bound volume of some of Thurston's publications from 1878-1891, mainly reprints of journal articles. The correspondence concerning experiments, inventions, engineering and scientific problems, scientific machinery and instruments includes letters from Charles Kendall Adams, Edward Atkinson, Alexander Graham Bell, Alonzo Cornell, George William Curtis, Chauncey Depew, Thomas A. Edison, John Ericsson, Daniel Coit Gilman, Abram Hewitt, Edwin J. Houston, B.F. Isherwood, Lord Kelvin, Samuel P. Langley, Seth Low, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Porter and Nikola Tesla.
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.)
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.
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
- Brown University -- : Alumni and alumnae.
- Brown University. Class of 1859
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Cornell University. College of Engineering
- Engineering -- Instruments.
- Engineering -- Study and teaching.
- Mechanical engineering -- Study and teaching.
- Photographs
- Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by N. Dean
- Date
- February 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu