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Oberlin College. Department of Physics.
Oberlin College Department of Physics records, 1873-2002.
General departmental records, 1940-1984, the bulk of which originate with chairmen Lloyd William Taylor, Carl Ellis Howe, and David L. Anderson, provide information about facilities, budgets, curriculum, faculty members, and grants. This first subgroup is comprised of correspondence and memoranda, course descriptions, syllabi and exams, a ledger of experiments, personnel evaluations, meeting minutes, and writings by faculty members. Subgroup II, Organizations and Activities, contains items related to societies and events sponsored by the physics department including a bound volume of minutes, 1909-1922, from the Physical Science Club, a calendar of events and memoranda to physics majors regarding the Physics Club, 1968-1977, and information concerning the visiting scientists programs, 1956-1971. Departmental papers and records attributable to the work of specific staff and faculty members reside in Subgroup III. Each series documents the professional work of the creator through correspondence, research files, class records, student submissions, laboratory notebooks, and published writings. Elisha Gray's series contains letters relating to his inventions, especially his work with the telephone and subsequent controversy with Alexander Graham Bell over the patent. Correspondents include Alexander Graham Bell, Charles H. Churchill, Henry Cummins, Charles Grandison Fairchild, Alexander L. Hayes, and George Frederick Wright. Includes articles about Gray and documentation from the U.S. Patent Office.
Oberlin College Physics Department traces its origins to early mathematics and natural philosophy offerings in the collegiate cirriculum of the 1830s. From 1890 to 1910 physics instruction was given by the department of physics and astronomy, an adjunct branch of mathematics. In 1910 a separate chair in physics was created. Before 1910, important faculty include Elisha Gray (1835-1901), a pioneer in telephone technology.
Anderson, David L., 1919-1996
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
Oberlin College. Dept. of Physics -- Administration.
Oberlin College. Dept. of Physics -- Faculty.
Oberlin College. Dept. of Physics -- History.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Telephone -- Patents.
Patents.
Laboratory notes. aat aat
Minutes. aat
Patents lcgft
Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901.
Taylor, Lloyd William, 1893-1948.
Tucker, Forrest Glenn, 1892-
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Oberlin College. Archives. 420 Mudd Center, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA
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