Guide to the Sibley School Of Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering Records,
1917-1978.

Collection Number: 16-5-1151

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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:
RMC Staff
Anne Lambert
Date completed:
September 2001
April 2011
EAD encoding:
Evan Earle, July 2009, May 2011
Date modified:
RMC Staff, January 2012

© 2009 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering records, 1917-1978.
Collection Number:
16-5-1151
Creator:
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Quantity:
14.1 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, photographs, printed material, research material.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, course material, and equipment manuals of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, formerly the Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering. Also the papers of Charles Osborn Mackey, Howard N. Fairchild, and Frank Oakes Ellenwood.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence, course material, and equipment manuals of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, formerly the Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering. Also the papers of Charles Osborn Mackey, Howard N. Fairchild, and Frank Oakes Ellenwood.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Ellenwood, Frank O.(Frank Oakes), 1878-
Fairchild, Howard N.
Mackey, Charles O.(Charles Osborn), 1903-
Cornell University--Students.
Cornell University.Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering.

Subjects:
Mechanical engineering--Study and teaching.

Form and Genre Terms:
Lantern slides.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering records, #16-5-1151. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
NOTES

Includes collection #16-5-508, and #16-5-993.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Link to a partial finding aid. PDF file.
Not all the material in the collection is covered by this guide.
Publications and writings of and gathered by Frank Oakes Ellenwood
n.d.
Diagrams
Box 15 Folder 1
1922
Thesis - "The Temperatures of Pneumatic Truck Tires"
Box 15 Folder 2
n.d.
"The most powerful giant in the world: the steam turbin".
Box 16 Folder 1
March 21, 1945
Report on the need for additional steam-generating units at the Watkins Salt Company.
Box 16 Folder 2
1923-1924
Steam-reheating-regenerative cycle, working papers - spreadsheet, memos, letters, draft, papers, newspaper, abstract of a paper, draft of a paper, lists, telegrams, notes, program of a meeting.
Box 16 Folder 3
1916
Turbine Losses - comparative analysis.
Box 16 Folder 4
1916
Nozzle and bucket coefficients - notes.
Box 16 Folder 5
1913-1916
Nozzle and bucket coefficients - documentation, computations, designs.
Box 16 Folder 6
1913, n.d.
Lehigh turbine calculations for coefficients - notes, drafts.
Box 16 Folder 7
1933
"The thermal performance of the Detroit turbine using steam at 1000 deg. Fahr." by W. A. Carter and Frank Oakes Ellenwood - paper and errata.
Box 16 Folder 8
[1928]
"Efficiencies of Otto and Diesel Engines" by Frank Oakes Ellenwood, Frederic Charles Evans and C. T. Chwang.
Box 16 Folder 9
1922
Copy of the journal of the society of automotive engineers, vol. XI, no. 2.
Box 16 Folder 10
1923
"High pressure, reheating, and regenerating for steam power plants" by Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld, F. O. Ellenwood.
Box 16 Folder 11
1942
"The specific heats of certain gases over wide ranges of pressures and temperatures: air, CO, CO2, C2H4, H2, N2, and O2" by Frank Oakes Ellenwood, Nicholas Kulik and Norman R. Gay.
Box 16 Folder 12
1942
"Departmental and inter-departmental research in heat-power engineering" by Frank Oakes Ellenwood.
Box 16 Folder 13
1927-1934
Reviews of Frank Oakes Publications - paper clippings.
Box 16 Folder 14
1934-1942
Paper clippings and pamphlets about happiness, poker, religion, political subjects, mathematics, health, driving, lexicography and cooking; postcard.
Box 16 Folder 15
1930-1944
Documentation about physical and engineering studies - articles, paper clippings, notes.
Box 16 Folder 16
1923
"Power: its application from the 17th dynasty to the 20th century", article published by the Morse Chain Company, ithaca, N.Y.
Box 16 Folder 17
1939
Celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Henry Thurston - program, copy of Science, vol. 90, no. 2346.
Box 16 Folder 18
1943
Text of a toast given in honor of Frank Oakes Ellenwood.
Box 16 Folder 19
1941-1954
Correspondence of Frank Oakes Ellenwood.
Box 16 Folder 20