Projects related to Florida's limestone industries, 1943-1947.

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Projects related to Florida's limestone industries, 1943-1947.

This series contains records related to the extraction of Florida's limerock deposits and their use in concrete mixtures, soil stabilizers, road beds, and other specialities.

.4 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7381657

University of Florida

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University of Florida. Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station

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The predecessor of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station (EIES) at the University of Florida was the Engineering Experiment Station created, but not funded, by the Florida Board of Control in 1929. The Dean of the College of Engineering served as the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station. When the state legislature created EIES in 1941, Dean Joseph Weil was appointed its first director. He served as the director until 1949, when Ralph Alexander Morgen became the Station head...