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Stanford University School of EngineeringABAA

Stanford School of Engineering Photo Archive with Identified Faculty and Students 1930-50s

1930réf. 232561930. Stanford University Military Engineering Archive Documenting the First Army Ordnance Reserve Gauging Program ca. 1930. Stanford University photo archive documenting the emergence of interwar military-industrial technical education ordnance gauging instruction and precision engineering research on campus during the early development of Stanford's engineering and applied science programs. Rather than depicting science classrooms in a general sense these photographs specifically document the technical culture surrounding Army ordnance training instrumentation systems machine calibration and laboratory-based engineering instruction that linked universities to the expanding infrastructure of American military preparedness between World War I and World War II. Taken together the archive captures Stanford at the moment when higher education increasingly merged scientific research industrial precision manufacturing and military technical training into a unified research model that later shaped the wartime and Cold War defense university system. Photo archive of 11 large silver gelatin photographs each approximately 8" x 10" Stanford University California dating from 1930 into the 1950s; two later views mounted to decorative yellow board. Several photographs depict laboratory interiors filled with precision instrumentation gauging apparatus optical and mechanical measuring devices machine-tool equipment calibration benches microscopes drafting stations and technical worktables arranged for instruction and inspection work. One especially important close-up photograph shows a large precision gauging or rotational calibration apparatus associated with ordnance measurement and machine tolerance testing. Surrounding the device are machined cylindrical components threaded fittings gauge rings and polished metal parts likely used in dimensional inspection bore alignment concentricity testing or interchangeable manufacturing instruction. Another darkened workshop view depicts what appears to be a heavy precision lathe or gauging bench fitted with a mounted cylindrical test component equipment consistent with ordnance inspection and military engineering instruction during the interwar period. Additional photographs show groups of students and instructors posed around technical apparatus inside instrumentation laboratories while later mounted photographs document more formalized postwar engineering office and drafting environments associated with large-scale technical administration and research organization. Most important is a detailed handwritten verso inscription reading: "Equipment used Feb 1930 Ordnance School at Stanford University. This was first time a course in gauging was given in any Army Ordnance Reserve Unit permanent facilities excepted. Instructor; Lieut Merrill S. Hingo. Photo; Lieut Howard Story Taylor." The inscription firmly identifies the archive as documentation of early Army ordnance reserve technical instruction conducted at Stanford and specifically ties the machinery to military gauging education. In the 1920s-30s "gauging" referred not merely to ordinary measurement but to the specialized science of precision dimensional inspection used in artillery manufacture weapons-part standardization shell tolerances bore measurement interchangeable machining systems and industrial calibration. Such instruction formed a critical component of modern military-industrial production where even minor deviations in machining tolerances could affect artillery accuracy chamber pressure shell seating or mechanical reliability. Several outdoor group portraits further reinforce the military context. One large group stands beneath a doorway marked "Military Science and Tactics" while another includes Colonel Donald C. Cubbison a career U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who served as professor of military science and tactics at Stanford from 1930 to 1935 before later attaining the rank of major general during World War II. His appearance situates the archive directly within Stanford's interwar military training system and links the photographs to broader national efforts to train technically educated reserve officers in engineering ordnance artillery science and industrial preparedness. The archive also reflects Stanford's broader transformation into a modern research university centered on applied science and engineering. During the interwar years Stanford's scientific departments expanded laboratory instruction instrumentation programs and research-based technical education under faculty including Robert E. Swain John P. Mitchell William H. Sloan and George S. Parks. Parks in particular became associated with analytical chemistry and geochemical laboratory science disciplines heavily dependent upon precision instrumentation and calibrated measurement systems. The engineering and laboratory culture documented here overlaps with contemporary developments in industrial metrology applied physics materials testing optical measurement and machine-tool inspection that increasingly tied university research to industrial production and military logistics. What makes the archive especially significant is the way it documents the transitional infrastructure between traditional university instruction and the emerging defense-oriented research university model. These photographs preserve not simply classrooms but the physical systems of technical education itself: calibration benches inspection machinery gauging apparatus optical instruments drafting rooms and laboratory spaces where students and reserve officers were trained in the precision engineering practices underlying twentieth-century industrial warfare and mass manufacturing. In doing so the archive visually traces the early foundations of the university-based defense engineering culture that would later expand dramatically during World War II and the Cold War throughout California research institutions and the broader military-industrial complex. Photographs are sharp and highly detailed with clear views of equipment and interiors; handwritten identifications remain legible. The two mounted 1950s photographs have several large tears without image loss with lighter handling wear elsewhere. Overall good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 229,16 €

Francis, James B - AMERICAN ENGINEERINGABAA

Description with Illustrations of the Turbine Water-Wheel Constructed and in Operation at Lowell Massachusetts .

1852réf. 21036London: John Weale 1852. First Edition. Original tan printed wrappers. Very good. 4to 4 pp. 4 large folding plates. A presentation from Weale to Francis Peabody on the front wrapper. Francis is generally considered to be the first experimenter and American engineer of note in the field of hydraulics. After emigrating from England he eventually became the chief engineer to a group of manufacturing firms that utilized the controlled waters of the Merrimac River. They in turn had acquired the rights to a turbine installed and designed in the 1840s by Uriah Boyden. Francis was engaged to improve upon Boyden's turbine design. A large-scale installation of a much improved design of the approach guide vanes and outflow was installed on one of the canals in Lowell the installation is detailed in a book published much later by Francis. So comprehensive were the changes and improvements of the performance that the design became synonymous with Francis' name. The report is the rare first printing of the Francis design by John Weale the formidable architectural and engineering publisher in the UK. During the late 1840s and early '50s Weale undertook the publication of a series of "quarterly reports" as a periodical in an effort to catalog the manifold changes occurring in the engineering profession in all fields. As a publishing venture it failed; never having gained the market share to support a highly technical production requiring numerous complex illustrations. Toward the end the publications appeared only sporadically. The paper offered here is one of the last to issue from the press in the generous large quarto format containing detailed engraved illustrations. See Rouse History of Hydraulics pp. 165-168; DAB VI pp. 578-579; OCLC cites but two locations in the UK. John Weale unknown books

Palinurus Antiquarian Books · États-Unis975,00 $US≈ 869,37 €

Sardi, P - MILITARY ENGINEERINGABAA

L`Artiglieria . divisa in tre libri

1621réf. 12041Venice: G Guerrigli a Spese dell' Autore 1621. First Edition. Full contemporary vellum. A very good bright copy; backstrip with a later overlay; text block split after the first signature; natural paper flaw to the lower fore corner of plate 3 touching the engraved surface; scattered spotting; recased at an earlier date. Folio 12 1 - 142 pp. There is an engraved title with a portrait of the author 18 large text engravings and 9 engraved plates. Sardi claimed to have completed 38 yrs. of study and military service throughout Europe. He had traveled in France Holland Germany and Spain and was in imperial service in Brussels in 1600. There he was responsible for the design of the hydraulic system for the garden of the Coudenberg palace. He is remembered for the publication of his Corona Imperiale . - a tract on fortification published in 1618. But shortly thereafter he had printed the important treatise on artillery and gun founding offered here. The book is divided in three sections. The first section treats the history of ballistics the second is an account of the geometric principles and design of cannon and the testing of brass castings. The third section is devoted to the design and construction of gun-mounts wheel carriages the use of gun-powder this section was excerpted and reprinted by Stubbes in the UK in 1670 and rules of ballistics; other chapters offer various designs for naval cannon and the use of same in the defense of ports against warships. Later chapters are devoted to the use the use of cannon in the defense of Alpine passes. The treatise benefits from generous and handsomely executed illustrations of the principles and designs set forth. An important book. The book was recased at an earlier date and the vellum covered boards somewhat amateurishly rebacked; but still an appealing copy. Cockle # 688; Millard Ital. Arch. pp. 381 - 384; Riccardi II 423. see Breman for the author and commentary; the same for Schutte. G Guerrigli a Spese dell' Autore hardcover books

Palinurus Antiquarian Books · États-Unis2 950,00 $US≈ 2 630,41 €

[Western Photographica]. [Engineering]ABAA

Small Album of Annotated Photographs Documenting Concrete Construction and Civil Engineering Projects in the American West During the Early 20th Century

1919réf. 2655Various locations including Wyoming Nebraska and Iowa 1919. Very good plus. Forty-two original black-and-white photographs and real photo postcards most with manuscript annotations bound into a two-ring leather binder. Two additional postcards laid in. Minor occasional dust soiling but overall in excellent shape. An intriguing pocket-sized binder containing a collection of photographs and real photo postcards documenting large-scale construction projects in the American West mostly involving concrete projects such as dams drainage reservoir infrastructure railroads and more between about 1913 to 1920. All of the projects occur on or west of the Mississippi River in locations such as Keokuk Iowa; Ardmore South Dakota; Grand Island Nebraska; and Arminto Wyoming. The projects cover a wide range of subject matter from a simple base for a railroad mail sack crane to entire dam wall construction and seem to feature several involving sprayable concrete commonly known as gunite. This material was rather new in the 1910s but is still widely in use to the present day. The majority of the images are captioned in manuscript identifying the project or location or often both. These include a power-generating dam in Keokuk; reinforcement of a reservoir dam near Lysite Wyoming; widening of a cut for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad through Arminto; memorializing a concrete crib wall for the same railroad at the Bancroft St. Vincent Omaha; the installation of an eighteen-inch wall casting and sinking the Kelly well in Grand Island; documenting frost action on a brick chimney and water tank and also picturing a "concrete gun" in Worland Wyoming; and others. The images are organized into two sections with small tabs one reading "Dams" and the other "Miscellan." The compiler of the pictures is not identified but he or she was most likely involved in the operational aspects of the construction projects. One of the captions is initialed at the bottom "JRH" which may help scholars identify the compiler with further research. The binder itself was produced in Kansas City which may be an additional clue to the compiler's identity. A small but focused collection featuring major western construction projects from the early-20th century. unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 114,58 €

[Cuba]: [Engineering]: [Education]: [Pennsylvania]: Guitart, Magdalena SofiaABAA

El Album de Mi Padrino Album of My Godfather manuscript cover title

réf. 12844Various locations in Cuba and Pennsylvania: contents ca 1973. 25 leaves totaling 40pp. illustrated with thirty black-and-white and sepia-toned photographs with detailed manuscript captions plus seven large clippings from school publications and six additional ephemeral items. Oblong folio. Black cloth with alligator-patterned cloth on front board with manuscript title below a drawn representation of a small pennant for Lehigh University. Covers worn frayed and chipped alligator-style cloth curling a bit along fore edge. A few items loose from adhesive and a few with small tears scattered spotting and soiling. Overall very good condition with fascinating materiality. A lovingly-compiled photograph album and memorial book created by a young woman named Magdalena Sofia Guitart in tribute to her godfather Rafael Genó a Cuban engineer who studied at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Juan Rafael Genó Rizo was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1883. A doctoral thesis on Cuban architecture found online deems him one of the premiere Art Deco architects of Santiago and the only one to obtain a degree abroad. Genó graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh in 1909 and from the University of Havana in 1913. He died in Miami Florida in 1973. This doting scrapbook was compiled and heavily captioned in Spanish which we hereafter present in translation as a "Memorial which with love and pride I dedicate to my godfather and some of his works; a pale reflection of all the good he has done in his life" by Magdalena Sofia Guitart who was born in 1936 in Santiago and arrived in Miami in 1958. She includes photos of Genó as a baby and a boy of 11 "From a very young age as you can see here my godfather was a little gentleman" as well as in uniform alongside Mexican and Costa Rican comrades at Pennsylvania's Wayne Field. She lauds his "triumphs" and "genius" in "thousands of battles." Genó likely came to the United States following the Spanish-American War during the growth of Cuban immigration resulting from increased American attention of the island country. All of the content in the album is artfully presented within decorative rules or floral borders providing an unusual flair to the presentation. The book displays not only the hand-drawn Lehigh pennant on the cover but also large artistic renditions of the campus and an internal shot of its library clipped from school publications and comparing views from 1873 1909 and 1933 the relevance of Lehigh at the later date is unclear. Additional photographs and decorative designs share the story as "our engineer" returns to Cuba and "begins to demonstrate his knowledge" in the mines of Ponupo. Soon "his hard work integrity and honesty led him to be chosen" for other feats of engineering including "la Iglesia church Los Desamparados constructed by my godfather 1932" and a train terminal in Guantánamo. Images and a photographic clipping laud his renovations of "Colegio La Salle" in 1937. There are also six photos and a clipping showing Genó's work on the altar for the Eucharistic Congress held in Santiago in 1936 during which the original statue of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre Patroness of Cuba was granted a canonical coronation by Pope Pius XI. The album also holds a clipping naming Genó as president of the Board of Directors of Santiago's Urban Property Center an inauguration ribbon and brochure for the Municipal Food Market in 1950 with which he was also involved and photos of the celebrated engineer later in life. A captivating and carefully-assembled homage created by a Cuban immigrant to the United States honoring a loved one who was educated in Pennsylvania and then returned to his home country to serve as a noted engineer during the first half of the 20th century. contents ca unknown books

The Joe Fay Company LLC · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 114,58 €