West Virginia University
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Emory L. Kemp Papers regarding Industrial History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4230
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials from Dr. Emory L. Kemp’s career of researching, documenting, and preserving historic structures. Kemp was a practicing civil engineer from 1952-1959, then taught civil engineering, historic preservation, and the history of technology from 1962-2003 at West Virginia University. He served as an expert consultant for the preservation of many historic engineering structures, including bridges, waterways, and mills. He also published regularly and remained...
Dates:
1735-2021
Samuel R. Jenkins (b. 1870) Diaries and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1761
Overview
Eighteen diaries, 1890-1934, of Samuel R. Jenkins, a civil engineer from Grafton. There are lengthy entries for the period, 1890-1892, when Jenkins was a student at West Virginia University. He did surveys and supervised construction work in various parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, read widely, and commented on works of Henry George, John W. Draper, and John Fiske. There are photographs of Jenkins and of an engineering job done by him for the American Bridge Company at...
Dates:
1890-1934
Filtered By
- Subject: Engineering X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Aqueducts 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Canal aqueducts 1
- Canals 1
- Canals--United States 1
- Cast-iron 1
- Cement 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coalfields 1
- Concrete 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Dams 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Engineering -- History 1
- Flood dams and reservoirs 1
- Glass blowing and working 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Grafton. 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- Australia 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- England 1
- Industrial Archaeology -- United States 1
- Industrial archaeology 1
- Inland navigation 1
- Iron 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) -- Navigation -- History 1
- Locks (Hydraulic engineering) 1
- Milling machinery 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mines and mineral resources 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- West Virginia 1
- Muskingum River (Ohio) 1
- New Jersey 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Portland cement 1
- Science -- History 1
- Steel 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Suspension bridges 1
- Technology -- History 1
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Ala. and Miss.) 1
- Truss bridges 1
- Waterways 1
- Wheeling Bridge (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Wrought-iron 1 + ∧ less
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