Willis Tryon Batcheller papers, circa 1915-1970.

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

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Industrialist and inventor of the compressed air brake George Westinghouse incorporated the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in 1891. With its giant factory located in East Pittsburgh, Pa., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company soon became the Edison General Electric Company's main rival in the contest to provide electricity to the United States. While Edison General Electric pioneered the generation and distribution of direct current (DC) electricity, Westinghou...

United States. Bureau of Reclamation

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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...

Washington (State). Dept. of Conservation and Development.

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The Constitution of the State of Washington states that "The use of the waters of the state for irrigation, mining and manufacturing shall be deemed a public use." (Art. XXI, Sec. 1). Public use meant that no private individual or company could deny the use of rivers, streams, lakes, etc. to others, and that irrigation, mining and manufacturing projects which used public waters would be monitored by public (government) agencies. To put this rather vague concept into practice, a law was passed in...

Columbia Basin Commission (Wash.)

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In 1903 the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation made a survey of the Columbia Basin to determine the feasibility of transferring water from the Pend Oreille River in Idaho to the basin. On 18 July 1918, the first proposal to build a dam at the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River for irrigation of the basin lands was published, and in 1919 the Washington State Legislature created the Columbia Basin Survey Commission and appropriated $100,000 for its work. By 1932 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bu...

Alaska Pulp and Paper Company

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Columbia Basin Project (U.S.)

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Canadian-Alaska Railway Company

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Clapp, William M.

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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company.

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Thomson, Reginald Heber, 1856-1949

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Reginald Heber Thomson (1856-1949) served multiple terms as Seattle City Engineer, from 1883 to 1886, 1892 to 1911 and from 1930 to 1931. He was born in Hanover, Indiana in 1856, graduating from Hanover College in 1877 with a doctorate in philosophy. After graduating, Thomson moved to Oakland, California and briefly taught mathematics at the Healdsburg Institute (later known as Pacific Union College). Thomson arrived in Seattle on September 25, 1881. During his tenure as Seattle City Engineer, h...

Columbia River Development League

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Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983

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Jackson's tenure in the House was briefly interrupted by service in the U.S. Army. He enlisted in 1943, but was recalled by President Roosevelt to congressional service after basic training. Jackson was assigned to the Government Operations Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a position which quickly put him at the center of the un-American activities controversies and in the national spotlight. He won recognition ...

Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989

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Warren Grant Magnuson (b. April 12, 1905, Moorhead, Minn.-d. May 20, 1989, Seattle, Wash.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the State of Washington, graduated from the University of Washington law school in 1929 and served in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944 to 1981, se...

Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Lighting.

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Ross, J. D. (James Delmage), 1872-1939

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Henny, David Christian, 1860-1935

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Batcheller, Willis Tryon, 1889-1975

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Consulting engineer from Seattle, Washington, who focused on hydroelectric steam power projects in the Pacific Northwest states, British Columbia, and Alaska. Batcheller served as president and chief engineer of the Canadian-Alaska Railway Company, for which he did preliminary studies, circa 1929-1957. He conducted the original survey for the state of Washington, and other work, for the Columbia Basin Project, 1921-1969. For the Seattle Lighting Dept., 1915-1950, his projects included the prelim...

Alaska. Railway Commission

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Tacoma (Wash.). Dept. of Public Utilities.

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Dimock, A. H.

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Alaska Mining and Exploration Company

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Carr, T. L.

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