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John A. Ubsdell course notebook

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Identifier: 1977-27
Content Description

This item is a student notebook of John A. Ubsdell, RPI Class of 1889. The notebook was titled, "Notes on Adjustment and Use of Instruments," after a course given by David M. Greene, who was a Director and Academic Head of Rensselaer. Topics in the notebook include scientific instrument use, mathematic formulas and equations, level measurements, and figure drawings of how to use certain instruments, such as transits.

Dates: 1889

John A. Wilson papers

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Identifier: MC 33
Abstract

This collection contains the student and professional papers of John A. Wilson.

Dates: Created: 1853-1876

John Alexander Low Waddell papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC 79
Abstract

Reprints of articles and addresses primarily on bridge engineering as well as handwritten bridge specifications by John Alexander Low Waddell.

Dates: Created: 1886-1930

John B. Cloke papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 70
Abstract

The Cloke papers consist of correspondence, planning records for the Chemistry department, notes on equipment, reports and Professsor Cloke's published articles and Ph.D. Dissertation.

Dates: Created: 1921-1972

John F. Burkin student notebooks

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Identifier: 2009-5
Content Description

Contained in this collection are three student notebooks, kept by John Burkin, RPI Class of 1915. One notebook is titled, "Geology" and includes lecture notes and diagrams of rock formations, runoffs, and atolls. The second one, titled "Power Plants," includes lecture notes and mathematical calculations. The third, "Hydraulics," includes lecture notes, computations, and diagrams.

Dates: 1914-1915

John Guthrie Fairfield lecture notes

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Identifier: 1979-8
Content Description

This collection contains three small student notebooks and lecture notes from John Guthrie Fairfield, RPI Class of 1937. The three notebooks, dated 1920-1922, 1923-1924, and 1924-1925, all show a calendar for the year, and lists other students and different scientific labs they worked on. Also contained in this collection are notes and a proposed schedule for an Advanced Thermodynamics course (1935).

Dates: 1920-1935

John T. Crowell Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC 81
Abstract

Materials reflect the architectural studies of a student at RPI during the 1940s.

Dates: Created: 1940-1963

John Van Wicheren Reynders papers

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Identifier: MC 59
Abstract

Reports produced by John V.W. Reynders as a consultant to steel and a photo documentation of the construction of the Bear Mountain Bridge make up this collection of professional papers.

Dates: Created: 1923-1927

Joseph Banks letters

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Identifier: 2008-19
Content Description

This small collection contains two letters, signed by Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. The first letter, c. 1814, is addressed to "My Dear Lord," and Banks writes about the winter and the cold nights he's experiencing in Sidmouth and Brighton. The second letter, written by Banks and addressed to Mr. Fazakerley, tells Mr. Fazakerley that Banks has received Don Francisco Flores Mareno's essay on the Yellow Fever, which Mr. Fazakerley brought to him.

Dates: 1814

Joseph J. Henry letters to William Henry Jr.

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Identifier: 0-69
Content Description

Letters written to Joseph Henry's brother, William Jr., describing his attendance, expenses, room and board, and his feelings about local politics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1856; being privately tutored in Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1857; attending Union College, and then his study of law and a description of some professors at the Law School at Poughkeepsie, New York, 1857.

Dates: 1856-1857

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