George Wallace Melville scrapbooks, 1881-1903.

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George Wallace Melville scrapbooks, 1881-1903.

1881-1903

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-agsl-agslmss0007

This collection includes four scrapbooks from the library of George W. Melville. Three scrapbooks focus on Arctic exploration, including one on the Jeannette Expedition, and another on the "Drift Casks Project" for determining Arctic currents. A fourth scrapbook contains Melville's personal correspondence.

1.4 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

eng, Latn

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7623252

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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Melville, George Wallace, 1841-1912

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George Wallace Melville (b. 10 January 1841, New York City-d. 17 March 1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an engineer, Arctic explorer and author. As chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, he headed a time of great expansion, technological progress and change, often in defiance of the conservative element of the Navy hierarchy. He superintended the design of 120 ships and introduced the water-tube boiler, the triple-screw propulsion system, vertical engines, the floating repair ship, and t...