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A Culture Of Technical Knowledge: Professionalizing Science And Engineering Education In Late-Nineteenth Century America, Paul Keith Nienkamp

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This manuscript examines the intellectual, cultural, and practical approaches to science and engineering education as a part of the land-grant college movement in the Midwest between the 1850s and early 1900s. These land-grant institutions began and grew within unique frontier societies that simultaneously cherished self-reliance and diligently worked to make themselves part of the larger national experience. College administrators and professors encountered rapidly changing public expectations, regional needs, and employment requirements. They recognized a dire need for technically skilled men and women who could quickly adapt to changes in equipment and processes, and implement advances in scientific knowledge in American …

Hoye’S Directory Of Lincoln City For 1891., W. C. Hoye

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“Being a Complete and Accurate Index to the Residents of the Entire City, Their Names, Business and Location. Together with a Carefully Prepared Business Directory; An Elaborate Appendix of Indispensable Information Concerning Churches, Societies, Banks, City, County, State and Federal Records, Etc., Etc. To Which Is Added a Full and Complete Street and Avenue Directory, Corrected and Compared with the Latest Surveys, and Therefore Official. Also a Complete Directory of the Resident Tax-Payers of Lancaster County, Exclusive of the City of Lincoln.”

Commercial and residential directory for Lincoln, Nebraska, 1891, when the city was in the midst of a phenomenal …

Woman's Journal Advocate: Index, February 1982 To March 1992, Stu Fliger-Burns

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By issue, author, and subject. PDF file is searchable.

Subjects include: abortion; abortion legislation; activism; AIDS; alcoholism; animals, cruelty to; anti-gay violence; appointments, political; armed forces, lesbians in; armed forces, women in; art reviews; artists, local; arts, women in the; astrology; athletics, women in; authors, feminist; authors, lesbian; authors, local; automobiles; awards; backpacking; baking; bisexuality; body image; book reviews; book sales; bookstores, feminist; Bork, Robert; Bush, Barbara; business, women in; capital punishment; career oriented programs; career related programs; Cather, Willa; catholicism; censorship; censuses; child care; child labor; child protective services; child support; childbirth; childcare; children, advocacy for; Christianity; civil disobedience; …

Merging Foreign And Domestic Information Policy Goals: The Us Government’S Office Of Technical Services (1946-1950), Robert K. Stewart

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This document describes the early history of the Federal Government technical reports distribution system. The Office of Technical Services has evolved into the National Technical Information System.

Digitized by Robert L. Bolin

US information policy during the post-World War II era reflected a duality of purpose: gain international superiority in the science and technology sectors, and promote the flow of such information to small business in America. To accomplish these dual purposes, Congress and the administration cooperated to create and fund the Office of Technical Services. OTS's job was to communicate the enormous body of scientific and technical research undertaken …

Correlation Index: Document Series And Pb Reports, Gretchen E. Runge, Special Libraries Council Of Philadelphia And Vicinity, Office Of Technical Services, Us Department Of Commerce, Robert Bolin , Depositor

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Shortly after World War II, the President created the Publication Board, an interagency committee, and authorized it to distribute government documents bottled up by war-time secrecy as well as documents containing information obtained from World War II enemies. The Publication Board began advertising documents for sale in the Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports (BSIR) in 1946. Those documents were assigned PB numbers which were to be used as order numbers when ordering documents from the Publication Board.

The documents distributed by the Publication Board soon came to be known as technical reports. The Publication Board eventually evolved into the …

Περι Κινουμενης Σφαιρας And Περι Επιτολων Και Δυσεων; Or De Sphaera Quae Movetur And De Ortibus Et Occasibus; Or On The Moving Sphere And On Risings And Settings, Autolycus Of Pitane, Joseph Mogenet , Editor

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This document contains the Greek texts of the two known works by Autolycus of Pitane: ΠΕΡΙ ΚΙΝΟΥΜΕΝΗΣ ΣΦΑΙΡΑΣ and ΠΕΡΙ ΕΠΙΤΟΛΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΔΥΣΕΩΝ, known in Latin as De sphaera quae movetur and De ortibus et occasibus, and in English as On the Moving Sphere and On Risings and Settings.

Autolycus was a contemporary of Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and his works are thought to have been completed in Athens within the years 335 and 300 BCE, making him also a rough contemporary of Euclid of Alexandria (fl. c. 300 BCE).

The texts are taken from the standard modern edition, …

Numerical Index To The Bibliography Of Scientific And Industrial Reports, Vols. I-X (1946-48), Science-Technology Group, Special Libraries Association, Robert L. Bolin Depositor

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I. The Numerical Index and the Correlation Index, which was digitized previously, (http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libelecrefmat/4/) are indexes to using the Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports which is a predecessor of Government Reports Announcements and Index and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) online database.

II. Some of the issues of the Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports are available on the Web in two locations:

A. Volumes digitized by the Hahti Trust are available at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009487225

B. Some entrys from the first volume area available in an XML database at: http://www.unl.edu/Bolin_resources/bsir-xml/

III. The Publication Board assigned PB numbers to …

Fiat Reports: A Bibliography And Index Of Reports Resulting From American Investigations Of German Industry, United States Department Of Commerce, Office Of Technical Services, Arlene Blackburn, W. Kenneth Lowry, Inez C. Wallace, Robert Bolin , Depositor

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After World War II, American forces in Europe set up the Field Intelligence Agency, Technical (FIAT) to host and provide administrative support for visiting American experts who were studying German industry. FIAT prepared reports of those experts and assigned FIAT report numbers to them. Those reports were distributed in two ways:

1) FIAT reports were sent to the Office of the Publication Board (OPB), in the Department of Commerce, which had been set up to distribute the fruits of American research and development during World War II and of American studies of Axis science, technology, and industry. The OPB evolved …