Ronald Bay Furry papers, circa 1957-1997.
Collection Number: 21-11-4261
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ronald Bay Furry papers, circa 1957-1997.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-11-4261
Abstract:
Collection consists of historical documents relating to Ronald Furry's 42 years on
the Cornell faculty in the teaching, research and Extension programs, including course
material, research material and items on the Layer Fund.
Creator:
Furry, Ronald Bay, 1931-
Quanitities:
3.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Following 42 years of service at Cornell University, Ronald Bay Furry (b. October
22, 1931), Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, retired August 30,
1995 and was granted Emeritus status. Furry received his BS (1953, with Distinction)
and MS (1955) degrees from Cornell University, and his PhD (1965) from Iowa State
University.
During his tenure at Cornell, Furry participated in all three mission functions of
the Department: Teaching, Research and Extension, and served as its Chairman during
1990-94. His principal research interests centered on postharvest controlled atmosphere
environments for agricultural materials, while his Extension efforts included responsibility
for the dairy structures program for New York State, as well as the Extension Plan
Service. He enjoyed teaching immensely, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses
ranging from computer programming and computer graphics through similitude methodology.
His publications include fifteen sole-author, eighteen principal-author, and seventeen
contributing-author papers; sixty engineering bulletins, mostly sole-authored; four
manuals and guides; one book chapter; one-hundred-seventy articles; thirty-two structural
design plan sets; and seventy-eight serial newsletters. In addition, he developed
several mainframe and microcomputer engineering design application packages which
he utilized extensively in his teaching program. He also served the Department as
Coordinator of Research and Graduate Faculty Representative, participated in a wide
variety of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Engineering and University
responsibilities, including the University Senate and the Faculty Council of Representatives,
and established and conducted the Department's undergraduate recruitment program from
1974 to his retirement. In 2007, he wrote A Pioneering Department: Evolution from
Rural Engineering to Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University,
1907-2007, that traces the evolution of the Department of Biological and Environmental
Engineering (BEE) at Cornell over its first 100 years.
Furry received early recognition as a National Science Foundation Science Faculty
Fellow, and a Ford Foundation Prospective Teacher in Engineering. In 1992, he was
elected a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE, now ASABE).
He was the recipient of several blue ribbon awards from ASAE. In 1993, the American
Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) awarded him its Centennial Certificate for
Exceptional Contributions to ASEE and the Profession of Engineering. He also served
as Chairman of the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division of ASEE.
Furry is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, a charter member of Gamma Sigma Delta
at Cornell, and a member of Alpha Zeta (AZ), where he served on the Board of Directors
for several decades; he was the AZ Board's Facility Program Chairman during the construction
of the fraternity's new house which was dedicated in 1993. He was a charter member
(1962) of the Ithaca Sertoma Club, and an early member (1954) and active participant
of the Cornell Federal Credit Union (CFCU), now CFCU Community Credit Union. He served
on the Credit Union's Board of Directors for eleven years, and was its Chairman for
four years. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate of AFROTC at Cornell University
and reached the rank of 1st Lt. in the USAFRes.
Ron is married to Lois Anne McClure (Ithaca College 1955). They have three children
- Suzanne Lynne Furry-Irish, married to L. Paul Irish; Kenneth B. Furry; and Donna
Wynne Furry Tongue, married to Donald V. Tongue. The Furrys have five grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren. His sister, Joanne Louise Furry, was married to his best
friend and fellow Cornell classmate David P. Dirksen.
Collection consists of historical documents relating to Ronald Furry's 42 years on
the Cornell faculty in the teaching, research and Extension programs and the Department
of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, including course material, research material
and items on the Layer Fund, agricultural, biological, and environmental engineering.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ronald Bay Furry papers, #21-11-4261. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Environmental engineering.
Bioengineering.
Agricultural engineering
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Personal files
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1987-1993 | ||||
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
"Reorganization (Petronius arbiter)"
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1993 | ||
Scope and Contents
A variety of humorous quotations, jokes and cartoons. Includes floppy disk labeled
"Boyd's Quotes!"
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
"Boyd's Quotes!"
FD-370 |
Undated | ||
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Murphy's law, quotes
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Undated | ||
Scope and Contents
Humorous quotations about Murphy's Law.
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
"Chinese proverb"
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1989 | ||
Scope and Contents
Chinese proverb and calligraphy.
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
"Translation Test"
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1987-1988 | ||
Scope and Contents
Copies of a joke test and one other humorous test.
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
"Far Above Cayuga's Waters-Sokol"
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1991 | ||
Scope and Contents
Explanation of origins of Cornell's Alma Mater.
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Departmental files
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1914-1997 | ||||
Scope and Contents
Series includes correspondence.
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Professional development
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1914-1992 | ||||
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Resumes
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1982-1992, 2018 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Biographical info
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1957-1991 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
ASAE Nomination & C.V.
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1990 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 4-6 |
Publications authored by R. Furry
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1956-1981 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes papers presented to colloquiums, professional associations, agricultural
extension bulletins, Farm Research
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Farm Research pub.
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1956-01 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes photo of Furry at Cornell Orchards.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Geheminis Sharpstein
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Undated | ||
Scope and Contents
Seminar, includes transparencies.
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Research pubs of agricultural historical interest
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1914-1981 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes a variety agricultural bulletins and reprints of historic interest, eg, reprint
of speech by Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1914.
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Layer fund
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1975-1997 | ||||
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Recommendation of recipient forms
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Undated | ||
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Recipients data and list
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1981-1997 | ||
Box 1 | V-9865 |
VHS Computer Magic: The World of Computer Imagery, Cinemagic Productions
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Undated | ||
Scope and Contents
VHS, 58 Minutes, Produced by Colyer Dupont
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Donors & acknowledgment letters
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1975-1982 | ||
Research
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1938-1987 | ||||
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
"Pentairy-R.B. Furry 1959-1960"
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1959-1960 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes photo negatives, photo R. Furry with model of Pentairy.
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
The Pentairy Visual Aids
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1960 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes B&W photos with close-up views of model Pentairy
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Pentairy Design
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1960-1961 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes Pentairy design notes, exhibit notes, newspaper clippings
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Farm & Home Week (Critique)
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1959-1960 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes exhibit critique, additional Pentairy design notes, cow cartoon
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
World Agriculture pub
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1960 | ||
Scope and Contents
Page 21 photo of Plentairy exhibit in Cairo.
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Miner Institute & agricultural Pubs
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1938-1987 | ||
Scope and Contents
Sample of agriculture pubs with variety of dates. Includes sheet of slides from Oct.
1972 at Miner Institute.
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Miner Waste
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1971-1975 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 sheets of slides of dairy related structures and 2 b&w photographs (size
8 x 11). Slides imprinted with the name W.W. Irish.
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Miner Institute
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1972-1975 | ||
Scope and Contents
3 sheets of dairy related slides at Miner Institute. A few with hand written labels.
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Instruction
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1957-1991 | ||||
Courses
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1965-1991 | ||||
Arranged by course number.
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
ABEN 204: Recs (1)
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Spring 1991 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
ABEN 204: Recs (2)
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Spring 1991 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
ABEN 204: Labs (1)
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Spring 1990 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
ABEN 204: Labs (2)
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Spring 1990 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
ABEN 204: #1 (1)
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1991 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes floppy disk (unlabeled)
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Untitled
FD-371 |
Undated | ||
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
ABEN 204: #1 (2)
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1991 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
ABEN 204: #1 (3)
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1991 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
ABEN 204: #2 (1)
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1991 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
ABEN 204: #2 (2)
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1991 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
ABEN 204: #3 (1)
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1991 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
ABEN 204: #3 (2)
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1991 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
ABEN 204: #4
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1991 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
ABEN 204: TA orientation & staff meetings
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1991 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 pages of photos of classroom set-up and blackboard notes.
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
ABEN 204: Lecture handouts
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Spring 1990 | ||
Scope and Contents
Organized by "week 1, week 2" etc.
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
ABEN 465: Drying #1 (1)
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1985-1990 | ||
Scope and Contents
Research articles dated over a range of years.
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
ABEN 465: Drying #1 (2)
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1982-1988 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
ABEN 465: Drying #2 (1)
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1988 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
ABEN 465: Drying #2 (2)
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Undated | ||
Scope and Contents
Handwritten notes undated. Research articles from the mid-1960s.
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
ABEN 465: Drying #2 (3)
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1980-1984 | ||
Scope and Contents
Research articles.
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
ABEN 465: Dimensional Analysis (1)
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1986-1990 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
ABEN 465: Dimensional Analysis (2)
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1988 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
ABEN 465: Dimensional Analysis (3)
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1987-1988 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
ABEN 465: Granular Flow Measure (1)
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1988 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
ABEN 465: Granular Flow Measure (2)
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1988 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
ABEN 465: Apple Storage (1)
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1987 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
ABEN 465: Apple Storage (2)
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1987 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
ABEN 465: Apple Storage (3)
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1987-1990 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes photos of whiteboard notes
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
ABEN 465: Teaching Assistant (1)
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1988 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
ABEN 465: Teaching Assistant (2)
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1988 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
ABEN 465: Pump/Reservoir Simulation
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1973-1983 | ||
Scope and Contents
Notes and research over a broad range of dates
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
ABEN 465: Agricultural Materials Handling Manual (1)
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1981-1990 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
ABEN 465: Agricultural Materials Handling Manual (2)
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1988 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
ABEN 465: Agricultural Materials Handling Manual (3)
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1988 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
ABEN 465: G Pump listing, Pump Reservoir System
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1986-1987 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
ABEN 465: G pump, Auto, Grapher Differ, Source & Execs, AutoCAD-Orchard.dwg
FD-369 |
1987-12-06 | ||
Scope and Contents
5" floppy disk
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
ABEN 465: Pump/Fan Laws, Pump Reservoir (1)
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1988 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
ABEN 465: Pump/Fan Laws, Pump Reservoir (2)
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1988 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Agriculture Engineering 501 Term Project
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1973-05 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of deposition patterns
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
ABEN 651: Similitude Methodology
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1966-1974 | ||
Scope and Contents
Research articles from 1966-1974, some annotated by Furry.
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
AGR ENG 651
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1965-1979 | ||
Scope and Contents
Includes published paper authored by Furry, handwritten notes and other research.
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Supplemental teaching materials
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1957-1990 | ||||
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Conversion Tables
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Undated | ||
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
ABEN: Teaching Materials (1)
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1964-1990 | ||
Scope and Contents
Variety of materials including a USDA set of wheat samples, final exam for ABEN 465
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
ABEN: Teaching Materials (2)
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Undated | ||
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
ABEN: Teaching Materials (3)
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1974-1990 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
ABEN: Teaching Materials (4)
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1979-1994 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Dairy Structures Guide
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1957-04 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Slide Rule Use Instructions
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Undated | ||
Scope and Contents
A variety of guides for slide rules.
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Box 4 | MU-1859 |
Alvin Precision Drawing Set
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Undated | ||
Scope and Contents
Set of metal drawing instruments in a hard blue cover.
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Box 4 | MU-1860 |
Concise Conversion Tables, Circular Slide Rule
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1967 | ||
Scope and Contents
Plastic circular slide rule and paper instruction guide in a white plastic wallet,
approx. 4" x 3"
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Box 4 | MU-1861 |
Concise Conversion Tables, Circular Slide Rule
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1966 | ||
Scope and Contents
Plastic circular slide rule and paper instruction guide in a blue plastic wallet,
approx. 4" x 3"
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Box 4 |
Book: "Fan Engineering", edited by Richard D. Madison, TJ960 F19 3rd ed.
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1933 |