Arthur Raymond Eckels Papers 1887 1959-1961 1972-1974

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Arthur Raymond Eckels Papers 1887 1959-1961 1972-1974

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Material related to city planning in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1972 to 1974, and class notes, photocopies of legal documents, city and state council minutes, meeting notes, maps and news clippings related to Eckels' political participation and efforts to prevent the Oberlin Project and the Pullen Road project from dissecting Pullen Park. Included is a photocopy of a legal document dated 1887 designating the donation of farm land from the Richard Stanhope Pullen estate to the City of Raleigh for use as a public park. Also in the collection are notes from the North Carolina State University Department of Electrical Engineering course, Principles of Electrical Engineering (EE 331) which Arthur Raymond Eckels taught in 1973. Arthur Raymond Eckels was a faculty member of the North Carolina State University Electrical Engineering Department from 1949 to 1983 and a community activist who campaigned to preserve Raleigh, North Carolina's Pullen Park.

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North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center

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Citizens for a Liveable Raleigh.

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Pullen, Richard Stanhope, 1822-1895

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North Carolina State University. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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The first electrical engineering class at the college that became North Carolina State University was taught in 1893. Electrical Engineering became in independent department when it split off from Physics in 1917. The origins of the computer science program date to 1957. The department became Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1981. From the description of North Carolina State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering records, 1889-1996 [manuscript] (North Car...

Eckels, Arthur Raymond, 1919-1998.

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Arthur Raymond Eckels was a faculty member of the North Carolina State University Electrical Engineering Department from 1949 to 1983 and a community activist who campaigned to preserve Raleigh, North Carolina's Pullen Park. From the description of Arthur Raymond Eckels papers, 1887-1974 [manuscript] (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 466464605 Arthur Raymond Eckels was a faculty member of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State Un...