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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5265
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of American engineering professor C. J. Ancker. These papers include research, drafts, manuscripts, photograph negatives, correspondences, speeches, and journals related to his publications.
Dates:
1963 - 2002
Collection
Identifier: 5315
Abstract
Papers of Michael A. Arbib, Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; University Professor; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology; Director, USC Human Brain Project. Prof. Arbib has based his career on the argument that we can learn much about machines from studying brains, and much about brains from studying machines. He has thus always worked for an interdisciplinary environment in which computer scientists and...
Dates:
1970-2016
Collection
Identifier: 0504
Abstract
The B.L. Engineering Inc. archive contains the papers of the civil engineering firm B.L. Engineering, Inc., including contracts, project files, financial records, plans and drawings. The firm, founded in 1969 and owned by the Cuban American Carlos Sebastian Lorente, worked on projects throughout Los Angeles and the region.
Dates:
1969 - 1998
Collection
Identifier: 3316
Abstract
This collection chiefly contains travel diaries and correspondence reflecting the trips of American hydraulic engineering professor James W. Daily (1913-1991) and his wife, Sarah A. Daily (1915-2009), to the People's Republic of China in 1974 and 1979, as well as a visit by Sarah in 1994. Also included are letters from Carr Chia-Chang Liang, a Caltech student in the late 1930s, that chronicle his trip back to and conditions in wartime China in the early 1940s.
Dates:
1940 - 1994
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5132
Scope and Contents
The four boxes comprising these papers include notes, outlines, and syllabi for chemical engineering courses (1951); records on the Edgington Oil Company lawsuit (1970s); Humble Oil and Refining Company data files and correspondence; data logs for Mobil Oil and Fluor Corporation (1940s); two boxes of instructional transparencies (for overhead projectors) on the art and science of plant design; two trays and a box of slides; a report submitted to the Los Angeles County Flood Control...
Dates:
1940s-1970s
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0190
Abstract
The Osborne-Montague family papers contains the papers of multiple generations of the Osborne and Montague families, as well as of the families they married into (primarily the Tingstads and the Caleffs). Rodney Montague moved to Los Angeles in 1853, while Henry Zenas Osborne moved to the area in 1878. Montague was a farmer; Osborne owned the Los Angeles Evening Express and was a Congressman for California's 10th Congressional District from 1917 until his death in 1923. His son, Henry...
Dates:
1847 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1945
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5060
Abstract
The author of Vector Theory of Circuits Involving Synchronous Machines, Ivan H. Summers, was a 1920 graduate of the University of Southern California (electrical engineering). His education continued at the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York, where he completed an advanced course in engineering and published a thesis for USC called Eddy Currents in Armature Windings. Summers wrote and published several other...
Dates:
1907-1930
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0060
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0054
Abstract
Technical manuals; clippings; photographs of commercial air operations. George Antolchick was an airplane and engine mechanic.
Dates:
1920 - 1953
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0287
Abstract
Plaques and certificates awarded Dr. Robert Vivian, 1942-1983. Dr. Vivan was the Dean of the USC School of Engineering.
Dates:
1942 - 1983