Ricker, Norman Hurd.
Norman Ricker papers, 1916-1978 (bulk 1922-1965).
The papers include graphs and diagrams, handwritten drafts of articles, research notes, lecture notes, photographs, photograph album, reports, and correspondence documenting Ricker's years as a physicist at Western Electric (1920-1923), Humble Oil (1923-1927), the Hughes Tool Company (1927-1938), the Jersey Production Research Center of Carter Oil (1938-1959), and as a professor of physics at the University of Oklahoma (1959-1980). Subjects include the invention of the paper cone loudspeaker, seismic prospecting, wavelet theory, and the development of the plunger lift pump for drilling deep wells. Also a typescript "Autobiography."
Physicist (acoustics, geophysics) and inventor. Physicist, Hughes Tool Company (1928-1933); senior research physicist, Carter Oil Company (1938-1958); and on the physics faculty at University of Oklahoma from 1959.
Carter Oil. Jersey Production Research Center.
Hughes Tool Company.
Humble Oil.
University of Oklahoma -- Faculty.
Loudspeakers.
Pumping machinery -- Technological innovations.
Seismic prospecting.
Waves.
Wet wells (Hydraulic engineering).
Articles. aat
Autobiographies. aat aat
Lecture notes. aat
Photographs. aat
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Rice University. Fondren Library. Woodson Research Center. P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA