Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts records, 1878-1934.

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Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts records, 1878-1934.

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Glass lantern slides; cards with contact prints made from slides; bound volumes of alumni records; photograph of the Civil Engineering faculty(1891-1892); and correspondence (1878-1904) concerning professor John D. Morris and student charges against him of incompetence, as well as other college matters. Also, three group photographs of the Class of 1905, Engineering, including Irvin Norton '05. "American Schools of Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture: School of Marine Construction, Sibley College, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York," in Marine Engineering, May 1899, given to the Library by Robert Henry Thurston.

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Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts. Class of 1905.

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Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts

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Cornell University. Class of 1950.

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Cornell University Class of 1878. From the description of Parody commencement program, 1878. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937832 ...

Norton, Irvin.

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Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903

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Professor of engineering and author, born R.I.; taught at U.S. Naval Academy, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Cornell; first president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and author of many engineering articles and an autobiography of Robert Fulton. From the description of Letters and postcard to Mr. McClure, 1889 May 11, 29 August 1890, 22 August 1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55230943 Director of Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering an...

Morris, John D., 1932-....

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Cornell University. College of Engineering

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In 1925, as part of the work of the University Plan Commission, the architectural firm of York and Sawyer proposed a new group of engineering buildings to replace East Sibley, Lincoln, and Franklin Halls. In 1937, Shreve, Lamb and Harmon again designed a cluster of new Engineering buildings for that site. In 1941, however, the university administration and trustees decided to relocate the Engineering College to its current location south of Barnes Hall and Sage College. Olin Hall incorporated so...