Records of Jacob Bigelow, Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts, 1816-1827.

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Records of Jacob Bigelow, Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts, 1816-1827.

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The records in this collection document the activities of Jacob Bigelow as Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts at Harvard from 1816 to 1827. The correspondence, reports, and plan of lectures in this collection provide an overview of Bigelow's establishment and administration of the Rumford Apparatus, a collection of scientific instruments and working models designed to promote the practical sciences and demonstrate the usefulness of science to daily life; refer to the rules and regulations of the Rumford professorship; contain various statistics about Bigelow's classes; and mention routine administrative matters. A manuscript draft written by Bigelow on the stem climbing plant Corydalis Fungosa is also included in the collection.

.22 cubic feet; (1 legal half-document box)

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Harvard University Archives.

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