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Vintage Equipment Collection

Call Number

RG.011

Date

Early-mid 20th century

Creator

Extent

12 Cubic Feet 13 items

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Abstract

The items in this collection relate to the fields of electrical and civil engineering, as well as supplemental equipment, and were used by engineers in the early to mid 20th century.

Biographical / Historical

The items in this collection were transferred to the Poly Archives by various university departments. The most prominently represented departments include Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

Arrangement

Items in this collection are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Contents

Equipment in this collection includes items civil and electrical engineers would have used in the early to mid 20th century. Surveying equipment, such as a theodolite and transit, as well as electrical engineering instruments, such as a decade capacitor, decade resistor, potentiometer, and volt meter are included. The equipment ranges in date from the early to mid 20th century.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is currently on display in the Bern Dibner Reading Room of the Bern Dibner Library of Science & Technology.

Please contact the archives to view items in this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish materials must be obtained from:

Poly Archives & Special Collections Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology 5 MetroTech Center Brooklyn, NY 11201

Phone: (718) 260-3943 Fax: (718) 260-3756 E-mail: archives@library.poly.edu

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Vintage Equipment Collection; RG 011; box number; folder number or item identifier; Poly Archives at Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology, New York University.

Location of Materials

Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology 5 MetroTech Center Brooklyn, New York, 11201 (646) 997-3943 polyarchives@nyu.edu

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials found in collection; there is no documentation concerning the provenance of these materials.

Collection processed by

Lindsay Anderberg

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-22 10:07:26 -0400.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: English

Revisions to this Guide

November 2021: Finding aid revised and edited by Zoe Blecher-Cohen, Mandy Abokhair, and Aileen Thong in 2021 to update the institutional change from NYU-Poly to NYU and for compliance with DACS Required Elements for Archival Description.

Repository

Poly Archives at the Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology, NYU Libraries
Poly Archives at Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology
Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology
5 MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201