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Advertising Brochure: 1903 Mccormick Farm Equipment, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

No abstract provided.

Determination Of Atmospheric Constituents, Ralph Ordway Brooks

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Discusses the elements of the atmosphere and its researchers, including, but not limited to, Black, Priestley, Scheele, Canvendish and Lavoisier.

Acetylene Gas; Its Preparation And Value As An Illuminant, Alfred W. Bosworth

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

This essay briefly discusses the history of Acetylene gas and delves further into its production, uses and value.

Combustion Analysis; Estimation Of Carbon & Hydrogen, Clifford Brewster Morrison

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Documents the methods of composition analysis by Antoine Lavoisier the 18th century and the adoption and refinement of this method by Theodore V. Saussure and others in the 19th century to combustion analysis. Includes plates of measurement equipment used.

Petroleum, Charles F. Kenyon

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Explores the strengths and weaknesses of origin theories of petroleum while also discussing the chemistry and process of producing oil in the United States.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1889 -- Vol. 11, No. 01, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Student Algebra Notebook, Jack Thorington, Joseph S. Winter

Winter Letterbooks

Jack Thorington's Algebra notebook. Contains practice algebra problems.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1884 -- Volume 06, No. 02, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1881 -- Volume 03, No. 15, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1880 -- Volume 02, No. 06, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1880 -- Volume 02, No. 05, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Selected Pages From Chemical Atlas ; Or, The Chemistry Of Familiar Objects; Exhibiting The General Principles Of The Science In A Series Of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, And Accompanied By Explanatory Essays, Embracing The Latest Views Of The Subjects Illustrated. Designed For The Use Of Students And Pupils In All Schools Where Chemistry Is Taught, By Edward L. Youmans..., Edward Livingston Youmans

Selections from Special Collections

106 p. : col. pl. ; 30 cm.

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Spring 2012. The abstract was prepared by Tara Arnold.

Notes On The Mammoth Cave, To Accompany A Map, Edmund Lee

Research Collections

Book by Edmund Lee, Civil Engineer, produced to accompany an 1835 map of Mammoth Cave, one of the "wonders of the World."

David Bolten Mathematics Exercise Book, 1812, David Bolten

Charles R. Roberts and Walter E. Boyer Collections

David Bolten of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, created this handwritten arithmetic exercise book in March, 1812. It contains problems and solutions under the headings of compound addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Applications, examples, cases and rules are included throughout the book. Examples include measurement of time, land and cloth as well as liquid and dry measurements. Also included is a section of problems on reduction, or the conversion of sums of money to other denominations.

The book was originally handed down to David A. Huber, the great-great-grandson of Bolten. David Bolten was married to Julia Schoener Bolten (1797-1881), buried in Niantic, …