Science and Technology
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:
Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company Records,
The Sprague Electric Railway and Motors collection includes two diagrams for setting up Sprague Electric Motors, and two completed motor cards for automatic motors.
Arthur M. Squires Papers,
Collection consists of extensive correspondence, unpublished research reports, lectures, trip reports, reprints, trip diaries (1968-82), photographs (1979) from his trip to China, daily work books (1959-81), and subject files spanning entire career. This collection is unprocessed.
Richard B. Talbot Papers,
The collection consists primarily of speeches, speech resource and research materials, administrative notes, departmental program planning and budgeting materials.
Robert Eldred Taylor Papers
Selective service records of Taylor of Larned, Kansas, during World War II. Taylor was disqualified from Aviation Cadet Training due to color blindness, and entered the enlisted reserve corps and was assigned inactive status to Pan American World Airways in Miami, Florida. In 1945 Taylor had to go in front of the selective service board again for possible duty.
Earl A. Thornton Collection
The collection includes research files, personal notes, audio recordings, videocassettes, photographs, and publications collected by engineer and Professor Earl A. Thornton on the fields of aviation, aeronautics, and aerospace.
William Logan Threlkeld Papers,
Papers of William Logan Threlkeld, professor of zoology and biology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1929-1958), including biographical materials, personal and professional correspondence, research files, and printed materials.
John W. Townsend, Jr., Papers
Marjorie Rhodes Townsend Papers,
Clarence Trent Papers
The Trent papers contain materials dealing with his activities in the ASME, the Lutheran Campus Ministry at VPI, and engineering education. Further biographical information on Trent may be found in Folder 1 and 27, the latter of which deals with the Distinguished Alumnus Certificate which Bluefield College awarded him in 1986.