Papers, 1920-1980.

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Papers, 1920-1980.

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The papers include graphs and diagrams, handwritten drafts of articles, research notes, lecture notes, photographs, photograph album, reports, and correspondence documenting Ricker's years as a physicist at Western Electric (1920-1923), Humble Oil (1923-1927), the Hughes Tool Company (1927-1938), the Jersey Production Research Center of Carter Oil (1938-1959), and as a professor of physics at the University of Oklahoma (1959-1980). Subjects include the invention of the paper cone loudspeaker, seismic prospecting, wavelet theory, and the development of the plunger lift pump for drilling deep wells. Also a typescript "Autobiography."

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American Institute of Physics

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University of Oklahoma.

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Ricker, Norman Hurd, 1896-1980

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Physicist (acoustics, geophysics) and inventor. Physicist, Hughes Tool Company, 1928-1933; senior research physicist, Carter Oil Company, 1938-1958; on physics faculty at University of Oklahoma from 1959. From the description of Papers, 1914-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81273628 Physicist (acoustics, geophysics) and inventor. Physicist, Hughes Tool Company (1928-1933); senior research physicist, Carter Oil Company (1938-1958); and on the physics faculty at University...

Hughes Tool Company

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Humble Oil.

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