Bioresource Engineering Department records, 1924-1983.

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Bioresource Engineering Department records, 1924-1983.

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Series IV documents the research activities of the department. Series VII consists primarily of correspondence of faculty member John Wolfe, much of it concerning irrigation. Series VIII consists of reports and short features broadcast over radio station KOAC in the 1930s and 1940s. Series IX, annual reports of research, spans the years 1970 to 1983. Series X consists of materials pertaining to the flax industry in Oregon from 1938 to 1954: references, reports, design specifications, and building and equipment plans and drawings. These materials resulted from state and federal fiber flax processing investigations between the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the Agricultural Engineering Dept. of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. Series XI consists of plans and drawings for homes; farm structures and equipment; selected campus buildings and structures including buildings at some Branch Experiment Stations; and plans for non-OSU buildings and/or sites designed by Agricultural Engineering Dept. faculty, primarily H.R. Sinnard. Most of the farm structures and equipment plans and drawings were published and distributed by the Extension Service.

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Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station

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The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was established under the provisions of the federal Hatch Act of 1887, which provided grants of $15,000 to each U.S. state and territory for experimentation in the "principles and applications of agricultural science." Agricultural experimentation began at Oregon Agricultural College in 1888 under Edgar Grimm, the Station's first director, and in 1889 state legislation was approved formally establishing the Experiment Station. That year, the Station pub...

Oregon State University. Agricultural Engineering Dept.

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Wolfe, John W. (John William), 1917-

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Sinnard, H. R. 1904-

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Oregon State College. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering.

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Alexander, R. McNeill

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Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service

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On July 24, 1911, Oregon Agricultural College's Board of Regents organized the Oregon Extension Service in response to requests from citizens of Oregon for assistance (particularly in agriculture) from the college. In May of 1914, nearly three years after Oregon had established its Extension Service, President Woodrow Wilson signed the federal Smith-Lever law, which provided federal money for the establishment of extension services in all states for developing off-campus programs, primarily in a...

Oregon State University. Dept. of Bioresource Engineering.

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The Department of Agricultural Engineering was created in 1916 when the Department of Agronomy was subdivided, and was placed within the School of Agriculture. In 1947 the department became jointly administered by the Schools of Agriculture and Engineering. The department's name was changed to Bioresource Engineering in 1991. Fiber flax processing investigations were conducted at Oregon State College from from the late 1930s through mid 1950s through a joint USDA/Oregon Agricultural Experiment S...

KOAC (Radio station : Corvallis, Or.)

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On Dec. 7, 1922, Oregon Agricultural College was granted a license to begin broadcasting radio station KFDJ, which had been put together as a lab experiment by OAC Physics Professor Jacob Jordan. The station's first broadcast was on Jan. 23, 1923 from the third floor of Apperson Hall. In Dec. 1925, the station's call letters were changed to KOAC, its power had been boosted from 50 to 500 watts, and the Extension Service utilized the station for broadcasting several programs. When the State Syste...