Science and engineering technical files--testing machinery, equipment, and procedures, 1933-1981.

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Science and engineering technical files--testing machinery, equipment, and procedures, 1933-1981.

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The records document Consumers' Research's use of machinery to test products, operations of laboratory equipment, and procedures for testing products. Included are correspondence, pamphlets, notes, worksheets, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs of product testing and testing machinery, equipment manuals, memoranda to Consumers' Research's technical staff, and advertisements. Also included are results from tests such as weather imitation tests, tensile tests, Consumers' Research's hat testing device, compression tests, bending tests, torsion tests, shearing tests, folding tests, hardness tests, fatigue tests, impact tests, abrasion tests, and other tests. Laboratory equipment instruction booklets concern measurement of geometrical and mechanical magnitudes, mechanics of fluids, sound optics, atomic physics, fire detection equipment, technological testing, electrical measurement, electrical engineering, radio-television power supplies, office equipment, complex objects, and photographic equipment.

4.25 cubic ft.

Rutgers University

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Consumers' Research, Inc.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...