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Contains 3 Results:

Physics (Winter 1854), Chain and Compass Surveying (Summer 1855), Chemistry (1855), Botany (May 1855)

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: These volumes consist primarily of lecture notes for courses in physics, mechanics, natural history, and other topics studied by Roebling at Rensselaer during the 1850s. Lectures were delivered by Benjamin Franklin Greene, William Elderhorst, S. Edward Warren, Edward A.H. Allen and Charles Drown. There are two drawings of machinery from the John A. Roebling Factory, 1857. The Rensselaer curriculum of the day Washington described as "that terrible treadmill of forcing an avalanche of figures...
Dates: Created: 1854-1857

Transformations of Motion (1856), Shades, Shadows, and Perspectives (undated), Electricity (undated), Geology (1856), Zoology (1855-56)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: These volumes consist primarily of lecture notes for courses in physics, mechanics, natural history, and other topics studied by Roebling at Rensselaer during the 1850s. Lectures were delivered by Benjamin Franklin Greene, William Elderhorst, S. Edward Warren, Edward A.H. Allen and Charles Drown. There are two drawings of machinery from the John A. Roebling Factory, 1857. The Rensselaer curriculum of the day Washington described as "that terrible treadmill of forcing an avalanche of figures...
Dates: Created: 1854-1857

Rational Mechanics (1856), Rational Dynamics (undated), Statistical Problems (undated), Physical Mechanics (undated), Resistance of Surface (undated)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: These volumes consist primarily of lecture notes for courses in physics, mechanics, natural history, and other topics studied by Roebling at Rensselaer during the 1850s. Lectures were delivered by Benjamin Franklin Greene, William Elderhorst, S. Edward Warren, Edward A.H. Allen and Charles Drown. There are two drawings of machinery from the John A. Roebling Factory, 1857. The Rensselaer curriculum of the day Washington described as "that terrible treadmill of forcing an avalanche of figures...
Dates: Created: 1854-1857