Civil Engineers, 1836/1998

Containers:

Box 339

Scope and content:

Kemp collected reference materials about civil engineers from the United States and Europe, especially France and the United Kingdom. The box includes scholarly journal articles, student papers, books, calculations, preliminary engineering drawings, notes, timelines, correspondence, brochures, clippings, reports, and books. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: catalog records, scholarly articles, book excerpts, bibliographies, clippings, maps, calculations, notes, and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set. The engineers described include Stephen Harriman Long, Othmar Ammann, Claudius Crozet, Francois Hennebique, Jacques Chanoine, Simon Pasqueau, John Millington, David Kirkaldy, George Stephenson, Robert Fulton, Alexander Bowman, Edward Wegmann, John E. Greiner, John M. Sweeney, Joseph Bailey, Richard Delafield, Frank Duff McEnteer, George Law, John B. Jervis, Wilhelm Hildenbrand, Herman Haupt, Orlando Whitney Norcross, John Smeaton, Benjamin Latrobe. The following oversize items were moved to Box 345: forty-two sheets of facsimile book excerpt (1836); five pages of facsimile draft reports (undated); twenty-six sheets of computer data (1983).

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