Drawings, 1945-1969 bulk 1946-1957.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Instrument Engineering Laboratory. Drawings, 1945-1969 bulk 1946-1957.

Drawings, 1945-1969 bulk 1946-1957.

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When the Instrument Engineering Lab was organized in 1946, a new system of identifying and storing drawings and blueprints produced by the lab was developed. Drawing numbers consist of a letter signifying the size of the drawings and a sequential number was given to each drawing as it was made. Some drawings were received by the lab which predated the Lab and do not have lab numbers. Other drawings were received by the Lab from project draftsmen and are numbered differently. Many drawings made by the lab have been lost. The drawings depict instruments designed and/or built at or for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Designers include Theodore R. Folsom, Jeffrey Dean Frautschy, John Dove Isaacs, L.W. Kidd and James Snodgrass, among other unidentified or partially identified designers. Many of the drawings were made by Madeleine Miller Mahnkan, draftsman for James Snodgrass. The drawings depict instrumentation, circuitry, building and ships plans. Instruments include the Folsom Plankton Splitter, the Isaacs/Kidd Mid-Water Trawl; nets, dredges, bottom samplers, plankton pressure chambers, titrators, temperature gradient recorders, corers, an insitu radiance meter, a gnathodynamometer, wave meters, telemetry equipment, depressors,a scoopfish sampler, and other equipment. The accession also includes drawings of temporary Navy buildings on the SIO campus, ships plans for a 95-foot research vessel, an outboard profile of the R/V Ellen B. Scripps and a map of Pueblo Lot 1264, the SIO property on Mt. Soledad.

455 oversized items + 259 (4" x 6") microfiche.

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