Samuel Matthews Vauclain class notes and thesis, 1901-1902.

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Samuel Matthews Vauclain class notes and thesis, 1901-1902.

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Notebooks documenting the typical steam-intensive curriculum based on "hands-on" experience with the then current machinery. The written work and draughtsmanship tell much about the standards at Cornell for the period.

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Vauclain, Samuel M. (Samuel Matthews), 1856-1940

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Samuel Matthews Vauclain Jr. (1880-1913) was the son of Samuel Matthews Vauclain, inventor of the compound locomotive. After studying at Central High School in Philadelphia, then mechanical engineering at Cornell University, he began working for his father at The Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1902. Sam was only employed a few months when the company decided to send him to Japan. While staying in Hawaii, war broke out between Russia and Japan. He continued his business trip to Japan...

Cornell University. Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts.

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