Willis R. Woolrich Papers 1933-1970

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6747hxb (corporateBody)

Woolrich, Willis Raymond, 1889-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rj8d6v (person)

Willis Raymond Woolrich, 1889-1977, was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on March 1, 1889. He received a bachelor of science from the University of Wisconsin in 1911 and an advanced degree in 1923. Afterward Woolrich worked as an engineer for both Western Electric and the International Harvester Company. In 1916 he joined the University of Tennessee and helped develop new methods of refrigeration. Woolrich later became the director of the Agriculture Industry Division of the Tennessee Valley Au...

University of Texas at Austin. College of Engineering

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66d9k8v (corporateBody)

Woolrich, Willis Raymond, 1889-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rj8d6v (person)

Willis Raymond Woolrich, 1889-1977, was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on March 1, 1889. He received a bachelor of science from the University of Wisconsin in 1911 and an advanced degree in 1923. Afterward Woolrich worked as an engineer for both Western Electric and the International Harvester Company. In 1916 he joined the University of Tennessee and helped develop new methods of refrigeration. Woolrich later became the director of the Agriculture Industry Division of the Tennessee Valley Au...

Tennessee Valley authority

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bw18q0 (corporateBody)

The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...