Joseph LeConte Davis papers, 1900-1914.

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Joseph LeConte Davis papers, 1900-1914.

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Chiefly articles, diagrams, and illustrated clippings re Davis' work as an electrical engineer and his innovations in design and construction of electric railroad locomotives. Letter, 24 Feb. 1900, S.C. College, from Benjamin Sloan, recommending Davis' work as an undergraduate, noting Davis' standing as a graduate "with distinction" in the 1897 class; printed invitation, 16 Feb. 1905, to a reception in the White House hosted by President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Several items document Davis' interest in the electric locomotive, including printed patent, 21 July 1914, from the U.S. Patent Office, "Reissued...Patent" of an "Electric Locomotive"; full text of speech, ca. 1909, Pennsylvania Electric Locomotives presented ca. 1909 before a professional society of engineers meeting in Baltimore, including list only of "lantern slides" that Davis used to illustrate his talk; and journal article, "Commutation and the Interpole Motor," published in the Oct. 1910 issue of The Electric Journal (Pittsburg, Pa.).

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Davis family.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Davis, Joseph LeConte, 1877-1912

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Resident of Pittsburg, Pa., at the time of his death, where he served as one of four section heads of the Railway Division of the Westinghouse Electric Company; Davis had responsibility for the deisgn of all direct current street cars and light rail and as well as "electrical equipment for automobiles and mines"; in 1909, Davis designed the largest electrical locomotives ever built at that time; native of Columbia, S.C.; son of Robert Means Davis (1849-1904) and Sallie LeConte Davis. ...