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Homer Jackson Dana
Papers, 1910-1968
The papers of Homer Jackson Dana (1890-1970), research engineer, Director of the Washington State University Engineering Experiment Station and Professor Emeritus of Washington State University, were received by the Washington State University Library from 1971 through 1974. The papers were acquired from the College of Engineering, Lucile Davis Dana and the executors of Dana's estate. The papers were processed by Lawrence Stark.
Additional papers of Homer J. Dana were found among the records of the Washington State University College of Engineering in April 1975. These papers were transferred to the WSU Library, and in June 1975 they were processed and added to this collection. This addition was processed by Lawrence R. Stark.
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
Born at Topeka, Kansas on January 1, 1890, Homer Dana came to the State of Washington with his parents in the early years of the 20th Century. His family homesteaded in central Washington for a time, then moved to the city of Pullman in 1911, where Dana entered the State College of Washington (now Washington State University). He completed a Bachelor's degree in engineering in 1915 and a Master's degree in 1917. For a brief time he was an instructor at the State College, leaving to go into private engineering practice. In the early 1920's Dana returned to WSU and completed a second Master's degree. He was again employed by the College, first as a consulting engineer, and, after 1924, as a research engineer. While the post of research engineer was his major assignment from 1924 until his retirement in 1960, he also taught classes on occasion, participated in the education of graduate students, and served as administrative head of the Engineering Experiment Station after 1945. He was placed on the State College faculty roster in the late 1940's and was designated Professor Emeritus at his retirement.
Although holding teaching and administrative posts, Dana's major work was research. He conceived his research post to be a generalized and wide-ranging assignment and consequently involved himself in work that was often far removed from his "specialty" of instrumentation and electricity. His initial major experimental project was actually a civil engineering problem, consisting of an attempt to determine the effect of heavy automobile traffic on roads and highways. Beginning with the construction of an instrument to measure the "washboard" effect, the project involved the construction and maintenance of highways as well as the construction of automobiles. The tests on roads that Dana carried out for several years in the late 1920's attracted considerable attention and the results were drawn upon by engineers throughout the United States, in Europe and in Asia.
After the completion of the highway tests, Dana concentrated on building fruit-handling equipment and developed a fruit-washing machine and various fruit-testing devices. These fruit-handling projects led him into engineering problems associated with fruit storage, especially refrigeration. He continued this line of investigation for several years in the 1930's while also working on related problems of heat transfer and storage. The heating and refrigeration projects were combined with electrical experimentation in Dana's major research of the late 1930's, a number of experiments known as the Mason City Project. This project was sponsored by the Washington State Planning Council and was connected with the Grand Coulee Dam development. Basically, it involved an attempt to determine the amount of electricity that a community would consume for heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, lighting, and power.
The Mason City Project, operated for the U.S. Government and having economic planning connotations, had been largely inspired as a reaction to the Great Depression. When recovery from this depression began in the late 1930's, Dana's work took on a different character. As demand from industry increased, he began developing specific processes and products for industrial applications. During this period he developed the "torque screw pole tester," a device for non-destructive testing of highline power transmission poles. At about the same time he began a series of studies on the problem of radio transmission to and from aircraft. This research was begun in cooperation with United Air Lines, but after the United States entered World War II, the project was transferred to the Army Air Corps. The basic problem that Dana attempted to solve in the radio experiments involved the suppression of static created by the "corona" of electrical charges built up around a moving aircraft. After much measurement to determine the nature of the corona, Dana eventually devised his "block and squirter system," a device that effected a considerable reduction of the corona effect.
Although the corona project was not quite finished, the Air Corps dropped it in the research cut-backs that accompanied the end of the war. In spite of this setback Dana saw the project through to completion using WSU facilities. The project also served as the lead-in to his next major project, likewise an aircraft communications problem and a defense-sponsored research effort. This project, carried out in the late 1940's and early 1950's, began as an attempt to develop a new aircraft communication system based on the broadcast of "facsimile" signals. This system, a combination of television and photocopy, proved to be of limited use, but in developing it Dana became involved in the "new" field of duplicating papers. He eventually developed his own "Fax" paper, one of the ancestors of later well-known photocopy paper.
The defense-inspired Fax paper project was but one of many experimental projects undertaken by Dana in response to the great demand for engineering services that faced him after World War II. At this time he found himself working on a number of major projects simultaneously, partly because he had become the administrator of the Engineering Experiment Station, in addition to being the major researcher. He once more attacked a number of problems associated with heating and refrigeration, improved his pole tester, carried out follow-up experiments on aircraft communication, and developed an aircraft warning light system for high voltage electric transmission cables and broadcasting towers. In addition he did considerable work on instrumentation, working on meters for the measure of "emotional stress," an attempt at improvement of the so-called "lie detectors."
The various research projects undertaken by Dana over the years produced a number of patentable devices and processes. In order that these might be available for industrial and commercial use, Dana joined other inventors in the Pullman area for the incorporation of the Washington State Research Foundation. This organization arranged for patent assignment and licenses of the inventions produced by a number of WSU researchers. Dana served as a manager of this organization for many years, and many of its records are included in this collection.
Dana was the author of a prodigious number of published articles, reports and technical bulletins. No small quantity of these were published as Bulletins of the WSU Engineering Experiment Station, while others were presented at professional meetings, or were the subject of publications on engineering and science. He was also often called upon to present information concerning his work at professional conferences and public meetings.
Homer Dana continued to be active after his retirement, at the age of 70 in 1960. His activities were increasingly curtailed by failing health after 1965, although he retained his interest in engineering research and continued to work on ideas for research projects. He died on December 17, 1970 at Spokane, Washington.
DESCRIPTION AND ARRANGEMENT
The papers of Homer Jackson Dana include correspondence, reports, drafts, notes, drawings, photographs and recordings relative to his work as a research engineer at Washington State University, to his private engineering practice and to his personal affairs. Papers which emanate from Dana's position with the Washington State University Engineering Experiment Station from 1920 to 1960 constitute the major portion of the collection. These papers document Dana's research, experimentation and invention in the fields of communications, electricity, facsimile transmission, highways, lie detectors, heating and refrigeration. The papers also contain Dana's personal correspondence, diaries and business records from the time he was a student, ca. 1910-1915, to his retirement years in the 1960s. In addition, the collection includes some records of the Washington State Research Foundation (1937-1960), an organization founded by Dana and others for the patenting and commercial development of inventions of the Washington State University staff.
The papers are arranged in eight series and further divided into several chronological and subject sub-series. The arrangement within the sub-series is one of alphabetically ordered folders. Each folder is numbered with a decimal figure which indicates the series and sub-series to which it belongs, as well as indicating its sequential location within the sub-series. The system preserves the main outlines of Dana's arrangement (his papers were separated in several locations) and permitted expansion as additional materials were received. Although primarily useful in the inventorying and arrangement phases of the processing of the papers, its utility as an aid to searching the collection called for its retention.
Three basic approaches to searching the collection have been provided. A series description outlines the broad subdivisions within the papers. A container list of folder headings provides more descriptive detail. The complexity and size of the total collection have necessitated the creation of an additional approach to the material. An index of the folder entries provides the major means of searching the papers. Although not an index of the papers, per se, merely an index of the key words of the folder headings, it unites in one alphabetical sequence materials located at diverse places throughout the collection. The index refers the researcher to the container number which contains the appropriate folder or folders. This may be used in two ways. First, as an index to the container list and secondly as a direct method of access to the papers. The key words which comprise the index entries appear readily upon examination of the container and its contents.
The additional papers of Homer Dana are arranged separately from the eight series previously described in the published register. Within this additional series, the papers are placed in an alphabetical sequence of subject folders. Each folder has been assigned a series and folder number which indicates its theoretical position among the main body of the papers. This integrates the additional material into the series arrangement described in the register.
SERIES: DESCRIPTION CONTAINER
Series 1: Subjects, 1920-1960.
Correspondence, professional engineering notes, records, and reports divided into three
chronological sub-series of which two overlap because of a dual filing system.
Subseries 1.1: ca. 1924-ca. 1947 1-22
Subseries 1.2: ca. 1947-ca. 1960 23-37
Subseries 1.3: ca. 1945-ca. 1950 38-40
Series 2: Professional Correspondence and Activities, 1947-1960.
Correspondence re: WSU Engineering Experiment Station and professional meetings and conventions.
Subseries 2.1: Correspondence, ca. 1947-ca. 1960 41-42
Subseries 2.2: Professional meetings, conventions and trips, 1947-1959 43-45
Series 3: Reports, 1922-1958.
Formal administrative and engineering reports of the WSU Engineering Experiment Station.
Subseries 3.1: Annual and progress reports, 1922-1958 46
Subseries 3.2: Engineering reports, 1922-1951 46
Series 4: Washington State Research Foundation, 1937-1960.
Correspondence, certificates, notes, memoranda, legal documents and other working papers of the
Foundation during the years that Dana was the principal record keeper.
Subseries 4.1: Case files on major patents 47
Subseries 4.2: Correspondence file 48-49
Subseries 4.3: Subject files re: organization, meetings, and activities
in licensing and assigning patents 50-52
Subseries 4.4: Papers of Attorney O.W. Lee, rep. of the Foundation 53
Series 5: Projects, 1931-1960.
Correspondence, notes, records, and drawings of Dana's principal engineering research projects
Subseries 5.1: Aviation warning light (catenary light), 1950-1960 54-55
Subseries 5.2: Emotional stress meter (lie detector), 1955-1959 56-57
Subseries 5.3: Facsimile (Fax) paper, 1948-1954 58-63
Subseries 5.4: Fruit washer, 1931-1934 63
Subseries 5.5: Mason City Project, 1936-1939 64-65
Subseries 5.6: Torque screw pole tester, 1938-1955 66
Subseries 5.7: Corona static supression in aircraft, 1938-1949 67-73
Subseries 5.8: Thermal and heating projects, 1938-1960 73-74
Subseries 5.9: Pear hardness tester, ca. 1937 74
Series 6: Private Engineering Consultations and Enterprises, 1920-1968.
Papers relating to engineering research wholly or partially separate from projects undertaken
at the Engineering Experiment Station.
Subseries 6.1: Correspondence, notes, records and drawings, ca. 1920-1968 75-89
Subseries 6.2: Engineering consultation reports, 1925-1941 90-93
Subseries 6.3: Automobile accident consultation reports, 1960-1968 94-96
Series 7: Personal and Family Papers, 1910-1968.
Correspondence, diaries and journals, manuscripts, articles, speeches, photographs and
recordings re: family matters, hobbies such as photography and recordings, and other interests.
Subseries 7.1: Correspondence, ca. 1914-1968 97-112
Subseries 7.2: Classroom teaching, ca. 1923 112
Subseries 7.3: Diaries and journals, 1919-1967 112-113
Subseries 7.4: Manuscripts of articles and speeches ca. 1930-ca. 1960 114-115
Subseries 7.5: Photographs of Dana and family, engineering projects,
Washington State University and vicinity, ca. 1910-1960 116-127
Subseries 7.6: Recordings, chiefly of Dana's addresses, ca. 1941-1957 128
Series 8: Drawings and Blueprints, 1920-194O. Oversize
Original drawings and blueprint copies of several of Dana's mechanical and electrical designs.
Series 9: Additions. 129-131
CONTAINER LIST
INDEX
| Abandoned Chrysler | 97 | |
| Abrams Electric Theory | 1 | |
| Ace Ice Company | 90 | |
| Acoustics | 1, 23 | |
| Acquisitions | 23 | |
| Adams, Mark F. | 23, 39 | |
| Address Book | 113 | |
| Advertising Sign | 85, 86 | |
| Advisory Board (College of Engineering) | 23 | |
| Advisory Services | 16, 17 | |
| Aero-Correspondence | 1 | |
| Aero-Tables | 1 | |
| Agricultural Experiment Station | 1 | |
| Agricultural Machinery | 5, 20, 87, 88 | |
| Ahmed, Kazi | 30 | |
| Air Conditioning | 1, 79 | |
| Air Ducts | 3 | |
| Air Filter | 75 | |
| Air Force | 23, 37, 40, 97 | |
| Air Force Property Donations | 23, 37 | |
| Air Pollution | 24 | |
| Airplane Crashes | 114 | |
| Airway Signal Co. | 77 | |
| Alaska Water System | 24 | |
| Albrook, R.L. | 24 | |
| Alloys | 1, 9 | |
| Aluminum | 23, 24, 39, 47 | |
| American Elin Corporation | 24 | |
| American Institute of Electrical Engineers | 45, 97 | |
| American Society of Refrigeration Engineers | 1, 24, 97 | |
| Amplifer Couplers | 75 | |
| Amplifiers | 1 | |
| Animated Sign | 85, 86 | |
| Annual Meetings (Research Foundation) | 48, 50, 51 | |
| Annual Reports | 46 | |
| Annuity | 97 | |
| Annunciators | 17 | |
| Anti-Submarine | 36 | |
| Apple Picker | 24 | |
| Apple Plants | 90 | |
| Application F, Employment Data | 1, 27, 37 | |
| Archaeology ill Army | 1 | |
| Arctic Cold Storage Co. | 82 | |
| Articles | 25 | |
| Articles of Incorporation (Research Foundation) | 50 | |
| Assignments | 39, 40, 50-52 | |
| Athens Club | 97 | |
| Atom (Bomb) | 25, 75 | |
| Atomic Radiation | 33 | |
| Attenuation | 1 | |
| Automatic Control Valves | 80 | |
| Automobile Accidents | 33, 94-96 | |
| Automobile Club | 1 | |
| Automobile Starter | 18 | |
| Automobiles | 1 | |
| Aviation | 1, 114 | |
| Bachelor of Science Thesis | 115 | |
| Bakelite | 25 | |
| Bakke, Noel | 1, 80 | |
| Baldwin-Dunn Collision | 95 | |
| Balistics Research | 25 | |
| Band Saws | 1 | |
| Bank | 97 | |
| Barlow, H.W. | 25 | |
| Barn Rewiring (WSU) | 1 | |
| Barnard, Monroe | 75 | |
| Barnet House | 75 | |
| Bearings | 25 | |
| Beer Insulation | 31 | |
| Benton County Electric System | 91 | |
| Berry Freezing | 1 | |
| Beta Electric Company | 25 | |
| Bifilar Suspension | 19 | |
| Big Timber, Montana, Auto Accident | 95 | |
| Billings, Montana | 94 | |
| Birds | 35 | |
| Black Light | 75 | |
| Block &, Squirter System | 47, 71 | |
| Blue Ribbon Growers | 82, 97 | |
| Board of Regents | 2 | |
| Boeing Airplane Company | 2, 43, 45 | |
| Bohler Gym | 23, 39 | |
| Bolometer | 25 | |
| Bonneville Power Administration | 2, 25, 43 | |
| Books & Magazines | 2 | |
| Brown-Bovari Company | 26 | |
| Brown Instruments | 2 | |
| Bryne, Brendan P. | 26 | |
| Budget | 2, 26 | |
| Bug Counter | 26 | |
| Bulletins | 2, 6-9, 11, 19, 21 | |
| Bureau of Roads | 39 | |
| Bureau of Ships | 37 | |
| By-Laws (Research Foundation) | 50 | |
| Cable | 2, 26 | |
| Cable Reel | 26 | |
| Calibration Data | 2 | |
| California Trip | 97 | |
| Camera Items | 97 | |
| Campus Lightswitch | 26 | |
| Caproni Art Galleries | 38 | |
| Car | 97 | |
| Car Cooling | 26 | |
| Car Costs | 2 | |
| Car Insurance | 97 | |
| Car Seismograph | 2 | |
| Carburetors | 2 | |
| Cardiograph | 26 | |
| Carpenter, H.V. | 7 | |
| Cashmere, Wa. (Refrigeration) | 80, 81 | |
| Catenary Light | 25, 32, 54, 55, 76, 77 | |
| Cathode Rays | 2, 26 | |
| Cement & Concrete Data | 2 | |
| Centennial Mills Company | 90 | |
| Certificates | 99 | |
| Chandler-Brynes Collision | 95 | |
| Charity Organizations | 2 | |
| Cheese Knife | 26 | |
| Cheese Ripening Process | 48, 51 | |
| Chelan County Meter Tests | 90 | |
| Chelan County Electrical System | 91 | |
| Chelan Crop Duster Accident | 95 | |
| Chelan, Wa. (Refrigeration) | 79 | |
| Chewelah, Wa. | 90 | |
| Chicago, New York, Washington & Dayton Trip, 1954 | 43 | |
| Chicago, New York & Washington D.C. Trip, 1948 | 45 | |
| Chicago, New York, Washington, Dayton and Omaha Trip, 1950 | 44 | |
| Chicago Trip, 1948 | 45 | |
| Chicago Trip, 1951 | 44, 45 | |
| Chicago Trip, 1954 | 43 | |
| Chicago Trip, 1957 | 43 | |
| Chicago Trip | 75 | |
| Civil Aeronautics Administration | 2 | |
| Civil Defense | 97 | |
| Civil Service Personnel | 75 | |
| Clark County Electrical System | 91 | |
| Clark County Public Utility District | 26 | |
| Clark, Howard F. | 26 | |
| Classroom Materials | 112 | |
| Clippings | 2 | |
| Clock | 2, 75, oversize | |
| Codd Truck Wheel | 2 | |
| Code Material | 26 | |
| Coil Spools | 26 | |
| Cold Lab | 26, 39 | |
| Cold Storage | 1, 3, 5, 6, 15, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 33, 39, 64, 65, 79-82, oversize | |
| College Contract Laws | 3 | |
| College Property | 3 | |
| Colleges & Universities | 3 | |
| Columbia Basin | 97 | |
| Columbia Crossing, (BPA) Trip, 1952 | 43 | |
| Columbia Electric Manufacturing Company | 26 | |
| Columbia Milling Company | 81 | |
| Columbus, Dayton, St. Louis Urbana Trip, 1953 | 44 | |
| Commencement | 3, 26 | |
| Committee of 25 | 26 | |
| Committees | 2, 8, 26, 32 | |
| Compton, Wilson | 108 | |
| Computer | 27, 36, 75 | |
| Computer Center (WSU) | 27 | |
| Compressors | 3 | |
| Condensers | 3 | |
| Connell, Wa. Truck Accident | 94 | |
| Consultations | 16, 17, 20, 75-96 | |
| Conventions | 40, 43-45 | |
| Cooperative Research Projects | 46 | |
| Cooperative Research Report | 16 | |
| Corona Suppression | 2, 11, 14, 18, 21, 22, 33, 47, 67-73, 86, 114, 115 | |
| Corrosion | 3 | |
| Cottages | 3 | |
| Cottonwood, Idaho, Auto Accident | 95 | |
| Counters | 3 | |
| Couplers | 75 | |
| Cowlitz County Electrical System | 91 | |
| Craine, Lloyd B. | 25, 38 | |
| Cramer, Eugene | 47 | |
| Crimson Circle | 97 | |
| Crystal Transducers | 27 | |
| Dana and Thornton, Contractors | 89 | |
| Dana-Baird Collision | 95 | |
| Dana, Blanche (Williams) | 98, 99 | |
| Dana Family | 98, 99, 116-119 | |
| Dana Hall | 40, 128 | |
| Dana, Harry | 99 | |
| Dana, Homer Jackson | 1, 38, 41, 42, 47, 50, 97-113, 116-119 | |
| Dana, Lucile Davis | 38, 98-106, 116-119 | |
| Dana, Luther | 99 | |
| Dana, Marshall | 37 | |
| Dana Stump Puller Company | 87, 88, oversize | |
| Davis, Arthur W. | 49 | |
| Day Light Recording Paper | 30 | |
| Defense Contracts | 23, 24, 26, 29, 32, 36, 58-62, 67-73 | |
| Defense Plans | 3 | |
| Defense Report, 1940 | 46 | |
| Design Short Course | 27 | |
| Designs, Misc. | 3 | |
| Desk Top | 75 | |
| Diaries | 112, 113 | |
| Diplomas | 99 | |
| Division of Industrial Research (WSU) | 3, 27 | |
| Doerner, Henry | 47-49, 51, 52 | |
| Dormitories | 3, 17 | |
| Doutre, R.L. | 80 | |
| Draft, 1918 | 99 | |
| Drills | 40 | |
| Drop Sign | 85, 86 | |
| Drumheller, J.L. | 88 | |
| Dryer | 3 | |
| Ducts | 3 | |
| Dumont Oscillators | 75 | |
| Dust Laying Chemicals | 3 | |
| Dwinnel Bros. Orchards | 81 | |
| Dwo, Jon | 27 | |
| Early Birds | 99 | |
| Economics of Using Rough Roads | 4 | |
| Egg Candling | 27 | |
| Elasticity Tester | 4 | |
| Electric Blanket | 75 | |
| Electric Heat | 7 | |
| Electric Ironing | 76 | |
| Electric Meter Tests | 2, 5, 22, 90-93 | |
| Electrical Construction Regulations | 4 | |
| Electrostatic Air Filter | 75 | |
| Electrostatic Seed Cleaner | 40 | |
| Emeriti | 99 | |
| Emotional Stress Meter | 56, 57, 76, 115 | |
| "Energy in Autos" | 114 | |
| Engineering College Research Association | 15 | |
| Engineering Experiment Station (WSU) | 2, 5, 18, 29, 38, 41, 42, 46 | |
| Engineering Reports | 4, 46, 90-93 | |
| Engineering Societies | 4 | |
| Engineering Tests (Misc.) | 76 | |
| Engineers' Council on Professional Development Accreditation Committee | 27 | |
| Engines | 4 | |
| Englund, James S. | 38 | |
| Entiat, Wa. (Refrigeration) | 81 | |
| Ephrata, Wa. | 27 | |
| Equipment | 4 | |
| Estimates | 4 | |
| Evans, Victor | 87, 88 | |
| Expense Account | 40, 43, 45 | |
| Expenses | 4 | |
| Experiment Stations | 4 | |
| Experimental Projects Reports | 46 | |
| Explosions Report | 90 | |
| Explosives | 33 | |
| Extension Service | 4 | |
| Extensometer | 4 | |
| Facsimile Broadcast | 23, 30, 38, 58-62, 76 | |
| Facsimile Paper | 23, 30, 38, 46, 58-62, 76 | |
| Facsimile Paper Final Report | 46 | |
| Faculty (WSU) | 5 | |
| Fan Cooling Inquiries | 5 | |
| Farm Appliances Inc. | 99 | |
| Farm Freezing Plant | 114, 115 | |
| Farm Problems | 5 | |
| Fatigue Machine | 76 | |
| Fellowships | 5 | |
| Field House | 17 | |
| Filters | 5, 75, 76 | |
| Financial Records & Papers | 99, 100 | |
| Finch, W.G.H. | 38 | |
| Fire Alarm Systems | 76 | |
| Fisher Laboratories | 5 | |
| Flashlight | 76 | |
| Flay, Roy B. | 38 | |
| Flight Log | 76 | |
| Flight Schedules | 1 | |
| Flip Sign | 85, 86 | |
| Flow Meters | 5 | |
| Flue Gas Temperature | 5 | |
| Flying Discs | 38 | |
| Flying Schools | 5 | |
| Food Lockers | 6 | |
| Ford Tractor Upset Case | 96 | |
| Foreign Contracts | 5 | |
| Foreign Patents | 51, 52, 87 | |
| Fortner, Otis | 47 | |
| Fosterite | 28 | |
| Foundry | 76 | |
| Franklin County Electrical System | 91 | |
| Fraternities | 12, 20, 28, 30, 35, 39, 100, 101, 125 | |
| Fraternity Advisor | 100, 101 | |
| Freezing | 6, 26, 31, 37, 114, 115 | |
| French, C. Clement | 108 | |
| Frequency Curves | 28 | |
| Frozen Logs | 31 | |
| Fruit House Snapshots | 6 | |
| Fruit Packing Storage | 6, 24, 79-82 | |
| Fruit Storage Survey, 1927-28 | 6, 80, 81 | |
| Fruit Washer | 12, 18, 63 | |
| Fruit Washing Bulletins | 6 | |
| Fruitamins | 28, 29, oversize | |
| Fuel Research | 6 | |
| Fuller-Morris Cold Storage Plant | 80 | |
| Furnace | 6, 19, 78 | |
| Garrard Phonograph | 101 | |
| Gas Engines | 4, 7 | |
| General Correspondence | 3, 41, 42, 103-106 | |
| General Electric Company | 7 | |
| General Electric Furnace | 78 | |
| General Electric Student Award | 29 | |
| Geophysical Year | 30, 76 | |
| Geophysics | 7 | |
| Giant Clock | 2, 75, oversize | |
| Geiger Counters | 76 | |
| Gilbertson, Lyle | 47 | |
| Glyco Products | 7 | |
| Golding, Norman S. | 48, 50, 51 | |
| Goodwin, Polly | 51 | |
| Graduate School | 39 | |
| Graduate Students | 29, 39 | |
| Graduate Thesis Forms | 7 | |
| Grand Coulee Dam | 3, 127 | |
| Grant County Electrical System | 92 | |
| Graphite | 7 | |
| Greenfield, Eugene W. | 38 | |
| Groves, Kermit | 47 | |
| Gymnasium | 7 | |
| Hallam, Robert | 86 | |
| Hand Dryer | 3 | |
| Harbeson-Walker Heat Tests | 29 | |
| Harris, Dwight | 47-49, 51, 52 | |
| Harrison Whey Project | 29 | |
| Havana and Mission (Spokane) Accidents | 95 | |
| Hay, Wa. Auto Accident | 95 | |
| Hazlet, Stewart | 29 | |
| Hearing Devices | 7 | |
| Heat Calculations Report, 1922 (WSU) | 46 | |
| Heat Loss Report, 1922 (WSU) | 46 | |
| Heat Pump | 7, 34, 36, 40, 64, 65, 73, 74, 76, 114, 115 | |
| Heat Tests | 30, 34, 39 | |
| Heating | 6, 7, 19, 20, 34, 36, 37, 40, 64, 65, 73, 74, 76, 114, 115 | |
| Hicks Chemical Company | 101 | |
| High School Reunion | 101 | |
| High Voltage Laboratory | 29, 37 | |
| Highway Department | 47 | |
| Highway Research Board | 8 | |
| Highway Research Bulletin | 8 | |
| Highway Taxes | 8 | |
| Highway Tests | 7, 8, 16, 20-22, 29, 34, 38, 39, 90, 115 | |
| Highways | 2-5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16-18, 20-22, 34-39, 84, 90, 115 | |
| "Historical Sketch of Electricity in the Inland Empire" | 114 | |
| Hit Counter | 29 | |
| Holland, Ernest O. | 8, 108 | |
| Holt, Edward K. | 23, 39 | |
| Home Economics Building | 17 | |
| Hooper Case (Accident) | 96 | |
| Hospital | 17, 101 | |
| Hospital Floor | 29 | |
| Hot Springs, Ark. Trip, 1957 | 44 | |
| Hotel Lighting | 9 | |
| House Designs | 101 | |
| Housing Committee | 8 | |
| Houston Trip, 1951 | 44 | |
| Houston, Washington and New York Trip, 1951 | 44 | |
| Howard, W.E. | 88 | |
| Humidity | 8 | |
| Hypersil | 76 | |
| I-Lab | 8 | |
| I-Power | 8 | |
| Ice and Frost Research | 38 | |
| Icing Tests | 25, 30, 77 | |
| Ideas | 76 | |
| Ikstrums, Janis | 30 | |
| Impulse Testing | 30 | |
| Income Taxes | 99, 100 | |
| Indianapolis, Indiana, Police Department | 86 | |
| Industrial Research Questionnaire | 30 | |
| Institute of Technology | 30, 41, 42 | |
| Insulation | 8, 24, 31, 34 | |
| Insurance | 8, 9, 102 | |
| Inter-Fraternity Council | 30 | |
| International Geophysical Year | 30, 76 | |
| Interphones | 9 | |
| Invention Ideas | 38, 76 | |
| Inventions | 9, 30 | |
| Investments | 19, 99, 100 | |
| Ironrite | 76 | |
| Job (at WSU) | 102 | |
| Journals | 112, 113 | |
| K-Factor | 30 | |
| Kaiser Aluminum | 30 | |
| Kenney Economy Hydraulic Company | 88 | |
| KHQ Neon Light | 30 | |
| Kimble Harvester Wreck | 94 | |
| King Size Speedometer | 36, 86 | |
| Klemgard, Neal | 30 | |
| Klickitat County Electrical System | 92 | |
| Komen, Peter Jr. | 30 | |
| Kreager, Frank | 28, 29 | |
| Kunkel-Beck Case | 94 | |
| KWSC | 14, 128 | |
| Lancaster and Allwine | 87 | |
| Land Grant College Association Meeting, 1952 | 44 | |
| Land Grant College Reports | 9 | |
| Lathe | 17, 76 | |
| Laundry Study | 35 | |
| Lawns | 9 | |
| Leaves-of-absence | 9 | |
| Lee, O.W. | 38, 48, 53 | |
| Leica Camera | 77 | |
| Lenses | 76 | |
| Letters from Students | 9 | |
| Library | 9 | |
| Licenses and Rules | 9 | |
| Lie Detector | 56, 57, 76, 115 | |
| Light Distribution | 9 | |
| Light Metals Foundry | 76 | |
| Light Meter | 30 | |
| Liquid Air | 31 | |
| Liquid Metal Switch Proposal | 31 | |
| Logged-Off Land | 102 | |
| Los Angeles Trip, 1955 | 45 | |
| MacCartney Case | 102 | |
| McCulloch, Ernest | 52 | |
| Machinery | 9 | |
| Magazine Recorder | 79 | |
| Magnesium Alloy Metals | 9 | |
| Magnetics | 31 | |
| Magnetite | 31 | |
| Magnets | 11, 25, 31 | |
| Mailing Lists | 9, 32 | |
| Maintenance and Expansion | 9 | |
| March, Clement | 48 | |
| Marshall, James | 47 | |
| Martensen, Roger | 86 | |
| Mason City | 10, 22, 64, 65 | |
| Master of Science Thesis | 115 | |
| Mechanical Engineer Degree Thesis | 115 | |
| Medford Ice and Cold Storage Company | 82 | |
| Meetings | 10, 44 | |
| Megger Ground Tester | 7 | |
| Memoranda | 32 | |
| Merit Rating | 32 | |
| Metal Shielding | 47 | |
| Metalograph | 10 | |
| Metals | 9-11, 32 | |
| Meyers Falls, Wa. | 10, 77, 90 | |
| Microphones | 10 | |
| Middleton, Ohio | 86 | |
| Military Engineer | 102 | |
| Milk Tester | 52 | |
| Milk Testing Process | 48, 50-52 | |
| Milliammeter | 37 | |
| Minicorder | 77, 79 | |
| Mining | 11 | |
| Minneapolis Trip, 1947 | 45 | |
| Miscellaneous Notes | 11, 89 | |
| Miscellaneous Correspondence | 103-106 | |
| Missile Site "D" | 90 | |
| Moe, Ernest | 88 | |
| Monel Metal | 11 | |
| Montana Trip | 40 | |
| Morris-Fuller Cold Storage Plant | 80 | |
| Moscow, Idaho, Auto Accident | 94 | |
| Motors | 11, 85, 86 | |
| Movie Subjects | 32 | |
| Municipal Power Ownership | 11 | |
| Nail Magnet | 11 | |
| Nail Picker | 11 | |
| Name Changes (Research Foundation) | 50, 51 | |
| National Defense Research Committee | 11 | |
| National Economy League | 11 | |
| National Electronics Conference | 38, 43 | |
| NICAP (National Investigatory Committee on Aerial Phenomena) | 111 | |
| National Resources Planning Board | 11 | |
| National Science Foundation | 32 | |
| National Youth Administration | 11 | |
| Nation's Traffic | 11 | |
| Navy | 12, 37 | |
| Neilson, Herluf | 47 | |
| New York Trip, 1954 | 44 | |
| Nickel | 11 | |
| Nilson, Thelma | 11 | |
| Noise Meter | 77 | |
| Northwest Electric Light and Power Association | 32, 38, 107 | |
| Northwest Magnesite Company | 48 | |
| Northwest Science Association | 11, 38, 43, 45 | |
| Northwestern Automobile Association | 11 | |
| Nuxoll Truck Accident | 95 | |
| Oakesdale Pea Growers | 32 | |
| Odell Cold Storage Plant | 82 | |
| Office of Naval Research | 32, 38 | |
| Office of Scientific Research | ||
| and Development - Army | 72, 73 | |
| Office of Scientific Research and Development - United States Navy | 12 | |
| Oil Burners | 12 | |
| Oil Filled Transformers | 25, 115 | |
| Oil Tanks | 77 | |
| Oil Treatment of Roads | 12 | |
| Okanogan Growers' Union | 82 | |
| Omak Fruit Growers | 82 | |
| Orders (Army) | 72, 73 | |
| Ore Concentration | 47 | |
| Oroville (Refrigeration) | 79 | |
| Osborne Electric Company | 32, 54, 55, 77 | |
| Oscillators | 75, 77 | |
| Oscillograph | 12 | |
| Oscilloscope | 12 | |
| Osipovich, A.A. | 77 | |
| Othello Auto Case | 94 | |
| Outside Consulting Service | 38 | |
| Outside Work | 32 | |
| Oyster Shucking | 32 | |
| Papers | 78 | |
| Patent Assignment Blanks | 39, 40, 47 | |
| Patents | 9, 12, 23, 47-53, 78, 79, 87, 88 | |
| Pavement Scaling | 7 | |
| Pea Tester | 12, 32 | |
| Pear Hardness Tester | 74, 78 | |
| Pending Contracts | 32 | |
| Penetrometer | 12 | |
| Perham Fruit Company | 12 | |
| Personal | 1 | |
| Personal Data (HJD) | 107 | |
| Personnel Blanks | 39 | |
| Petroglyphs | 111 | |
| Peshastin, Wa. (Refrigeration) | 80, 81 | |
| Phi Kappa Phi | 39 | |
| Phi Kappa Tau | 12, 39, 100, 101, 125 | |
| Phonograph | 12, 77, 78, 101 | |
| Photo-Electric Cell | 12 | |
| Photometer | 12 | |
| Pickling and Cleaning Metals | 32 | |
| Pipe Covering | 12 | |
| Pipe Thawers | 12 | |
| Planning | 10-12, 22, 64, 65 | |
| Plastics | 13, 32, 39 | |
| Pole Tester | 47, 66 | |
| Pole Tests | 32, 90 | |
| Police Investigations | 33 | |
| Police Science Project | 38 | |
| Policy Statement (Research Foundation) | 51 | |
| Polishing Metals | 47 | |
| Polygraph | 56, 57, 76, 115 | |
| Pontiac-Triumph Collision | 94 | |
| Pooh Bahs | 39, 125 | |
| Popular Science | 13 | |
| Porcelain | 13 | |
| Portland, Oregon (Accident) | 94 | |
| Portland Trip, 1950 | 43 | |
| Portland Trip, 1953 | 45 | |
| Portland Trip, 1956 | 45 | |
| Portland Trip | 107 | |
| Position Survey | 107 | |
| Positions and Inquiries | 107 | |
| Powell Residence | 78 | |
| Power Plant (WSU) | 13 | |
| Power Pyramiding | 13 | |
| Power Tests | 24 | |
| Power Transmission | 20, 25, 26 | |
| Precipitation Static | 2, 11, 14, 18, 21, 22, 47, 67-73 | |
| Precipitron Air Filter | 75 | |
| Pre-History of North America | 111 | |
| Presidential Selection Committee | 26 | |
| President's Committees (1945) | 32 | |
| President's Office (WSU) | 11, 108 | |
| Preston-Shaffer Milling Company | 90 | |
| Price vs. Larabee Accident | 96 | |
| Primer Test | 33 | |
| Producer-Gas Engine | 7 | |
| Professional Meetings (1951) | 43 | |
| Program Development | 33 | |
| Progress Reports | 46 | |
| Projects | 13, 33, 38 | |
| Proposals | 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40 | |
| Psychometric Chart | 13 | |
| Public Address System (WSU) | 3, 13, 23, 33, 39, 89 | |
| Publications | 13, 40, 78 | |
| Pulitz Associates | 78 | |
| Pullman, Wa. | 14, 78 | |
| Pumps | 14, 78 | |
| Puzzle Solutions | 108 | |
| Pyrometer | 14 | |
| Quackenbush, E.B. | 88 | |
| Questionnaire | 30 | |
| Quotations (Prices) | 14, 39, 86 | |
| Radiation | 33 | |
| Radiation Counter | 78 | |
| Radiation Monitoring Committee for Washington | 33 | |
| Radio | 5, 14, 18, 22, 33, 40, 47, 67-73, 78, 108 | |
| Radio Audience Evaluation Device (RAED) | 78 | |
| Radio Defense | 14 | |
| Radio Guild | 108 | |
| Radio Licenses and Rules | 9, 14, 108 | |
| Radio Operators License | 108 | |
| Radio Propagation Facilities | 33 | |
| Radio Receiver (1930) | 78 | |
| Radio Tubes | 14 | |
| RAED (Radio Audience Evaluation Device) | 78 | |
| Railroad Refrigerators | 26 | |
| Real Estate | 108 | |
| Recommendations | 14 | |
| Recorder | 14, 15, 39, 79 | |
| Recording Discs | 15 | |
| Recording Meters | 33, 39 | |
| Recording Needles | 15 | |
| Redlich, Otto | 23, 39, 47 | |
| Refrigeration | 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 15, 22, 24, 26, 31, 33, 37, 39, 64, 65, 79-82, oversize | |
| Refrigeration Manual | 33 | |
| Relays | 15 | |
| Remote Control Units | 15 | |
| Reports | 15, 46, 90-93 | |
| Reports of Special Tests | 39 | |
| Requisitions and Orders | 15 | |
| Resazurin Test | 48, 50, 51 | |
| "Research and Its Opportunity" | 16 | |
| Research Committee (WSU) | 39 | |
| Research Corporation | 50-52 | |
| Research Council (WSU) | 15 | |
| Research Explorations, 1957 | 34 | |
| Research Foundation | 16, 47-53 | |
| Research Grants | 39 | |
| Research Inquiries | 16 | |
| Research Policy | 34 | |
| Research Proposals | 39 | |
| Research Reporter | 15, 34 | |
| Residence (703 Linden) | 109, oversize | |
| Resin | 28 | |
| R.F. Voltmeter | 23, 34, 39 | |
| R.F. Wattmeter | 39 | |
| Rho Epsilon | 109 | |
| Rimmel, W.L. | 81 | |
| Roads | 2-5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16-18, 20-22, 34-36, 38, 39, 90, 115 | |
| Roehman, Ludwig | 39 | |
| Rogue River Orchards | 82 | |
| Roof Ice | 82 | |
| Roofing | 16 | |
| Rope | 16 | |
| Rotating Standard (Watthour Meter) | 82 | |
| Roto-tiller | 82 | |
| Roughometer | 2, 16, 34, 90 | |
| Rounds, Fred G. | 16 | |
| Rules and Regulations | 34 | |
| Rumen Tester | 34 | |
| Runestones | 111 | |
| Safety Conference of Governor Wallgren | 17 | |
| St. Vincent de Paul (Charity) Salvage Bureau, Spokane | 34 | |
| Salesmanship | 109 | |
| Savings and Loan Association of Pullman | 16 | |
| Saws | 1, 16 | |
| Schenectady Mission | 71 | |
| Schlictig, Ralph | 34 | |
| Scholarship | 17 | |
| Schwindiman Truck Crash | 94 | |
| Science Show | 34 | |
| Scoreboard Clock | 2, 16, 75, oversize | |
| Sears, Roebuck and Company | 16 | |
| Seattle and San Francisco Trip | 40 | |
| Seattle Trip, 1950 | 43 | |
| Seattle Trip, 1958 | 45 | |
| Seattle Trip, 1959 | 43 | |
| Security Clearance | 34, 37 | |
| Seed Cleaner | 40 | |
| Selective Service | 17 | |
| Seniors and Advanced Students | 16 | |
| Services | 16, 17 | |
| Shepard, W.B. | 1 | |
| Shering Bridge Tests | 85 | |
| Shipman, H.C. | 87,88 | |
| Shock Absorbers | 17 | |
| Shoe Size Computer | 83, 84 | |
| Shoo-Bird | 35 | |
| Short Wave Radio | 14 | |
| Sigma Xi | 35 | |
| Sign | 85, 86 | |
| Signal Systems | 17 | |
| Siren | 78 | |
| Sketches | 17 | |
| Skin Temperature Recorder | 39 | |
| "The Slave Unit" | 114 | |
| Slide Rule | 17 | |
| Snake River range (kitchen) fire | 96 | |
| Social Security | 109 | |
| Solar Heat | 40 | |
| Soldering | 17, 86 | |
| Sons of the American Revolution | 39, 109 | |
| Soot Blower | 17 | |
| Sorority House Plan | 86 | |
| Sound Apparatus Company | 17 | |
| Sound Equipment | 17 | |
| South Bend Lathe | 17 | |
| Space Program | 86 | |
| Space Study | 35 | |
| Spanish Swindle | 109 | |
| Specifications | 1, 3, 7, 17, 18, 75 | |
| Speech Analyzer | 35 | |
| Speeches | 18, 25, 35, 36, 109-111 | |
| Speed Indicator | 35 | |
| Speed Recorder | 18 | |
| Speedometer | 36, 86 | |
| Spit for Fireplace | 86 | |
| Spokane Air Force | 40 | |
| Spokane and Portland Trip, 1954 | 44 | |
| Spokane Radio Company | 18 | |
| Spokane Trip | 45 | |
| Sponsor Explorations | 36 | |
| Spray and Spray Control | 18 | |
| Spray Application | 47 | |
| Springs | 25 | |
| Spruce Splitter | 87, 88 | |
| Staff | 18, 32, 36 | |
| Staff Strike of, 1943 | 110 | |
| Standard Fruits | 80 | |
| Starters | 18 | |
| State Planning Council | 11, 12, 22 | |
| Static | 2, 11, 14, 18, 21, 22, 33, 67-73, 86 | |
| Steam Bath | 86 | |
| Steam Line Report, 1922 (WSU) | 46 | |
| Steam Pipe Report, 1921 (WSU) | 46 | |
| Steel Equipment | 18 | |
| Steptoe Canyon Powerline Accident | 95 | |
| Stevens County Electrical System | 92 | |
| Stevens County Light and Power Company | 90, oversize | |
| Stimson Hall | 19 | |
| Stocks | 19, 99, 199 | |
| Stokers | 19 | |
| Stonehenge | 36 | |
| Stored Heat | 7, 34, 36, 40, 73, 74, 76, 114, 115 | |
| Strategic Air Command | 39 | |
| Strobel Accident | 95 | |
| Strobocom | 36 | |
| Stucco | 19 | |
| Student Help | 36 | |
| Student Notes of H.J. Dana | 110 | |
| Student Strike of, 1936 | 110 | |
| Students | 9, 19, 26, 27, 29, 30 | |
| Stump Puller | 87, 88, oversize | |
| Subcontracting | 36 | |
| Submarine Detection | 36 | |
| Subscriptions | 111 | |
| Subversive Oath | 110 | |
| Subway to Troy Hall | 18, 19 | |
| Summer Work | 36 | |
| Sunlight Meter | 27 | |
| Sunnyslope (Refrigeration) | 80 | |
| Supersonic Energy | 24 | |
| Supersonic Focusing | 40 | |
| Supersonic Mixing | 36 | |
| Surgical Stitcher | 88 | |
| Surveys | 3, 15, 30, 80, 81 | |
| Suspension (bifilar) | 19 | |
| Swing Saw | 19 | |
| Switchboards | 19 | |
| Switching Circuits | 36 | |
| Sylvania Corporation | 14 | |
| Symons Block Tests (Spokane) | 2, 22 | |
| Tachometer | 20 | |
| "Tales of a Civilian Flying in Large Military Aircraft" | 115 | |
| Tank Seal | 36 | |
| Tape Recorder | 36, 79 | |
| Tau Beta Phi | 20 | |
| Taylor, Harcourt | 81 | |
| Teaching Materials | 112 | |
| Tech Building Dedication | 40 | |
| Technical Colloquim | 20 | |
| Technical Data (Misc.) | 36 | |
| Teenycorder | 79 | |
| Telegrams | 20 | |
| Telephone Toll Lines | 89 | |
| Television | 20 | |
| Television Tower Lights | 54, 55, 76, 77 | |
| Temperature Control | 20 | |
| Theatre Lighting | 20 | |
| Thermal Tests | 30, 31, 39 | |
| Thermocouples | 20 | |
| "These Wonders I Have Seen" | 114 | |
| Theses | 115 | |
| Three-Phase Power | 90 | |
| Tickler Files | 20 | |
| Tilden Company | 40 | |
| Time Sheets | 20, 36 | |
| Tire Tester | 20 | |
| Tire Wear Tests | 20 | |
| Toastmasters | 36, 111 | |
| Todd Hall | 40 | |
| Tonasket, Wa. (Refrigeration) | 79 | |
| Tone Production and Quality | 20 | |
| Tractors | 20 | |
| Traffic Counter | 3, 20, 35, 36, 47 | |
| Transformers | 20, 25, 40, 90-93 | |
| Transits | 20 | |
| Transportation Data | 21 | |
| Travel | 40, 43-45 | |
| Treasure Finding | 37 | |
| Trees and Lumber | 21 | |
| Tricks | 111 | |
| Trips | 40, 43-45, 75, 89, 97 | |
| Truck Wheel | 2 | |
| Unidentified Flying Objects | 111 | |
| Unifine Flour | 37 | |
| Union Electric Company | 51 | |
| United Air Lines | 21 | |
| United Nations Flag | 37 | |
| Universal Laboratory Meter | 18, 19 | |
| Vacuum Cleaner | 21 | |
| Vacuum Tube Milliammeter | 37 | |
| Vacuum Tubes | 14 | |
| Vancouver, Seattle and Tacoma Trip | 40 | |
| Van Doren Hall Theatre | 20 | |
| Van Hooser-Thatch Case | 94 | |
| Veterinary Science Climatic Room | 37 | |
| Vibration | 40 | |
| Victory Square Heating | 37 | |
| Viking | 111 | |
| Visitors | 37 | |
| Voltmeters | 21 | |
| Walla Walla Auto Case | 95 | |
| Walla Walla Trip, 1949 | 40 | |
| Wallgren, Monrad | 17 | |
| Warm Air Furnace | 6 | |
| Washboard Roads | 2, 16, 21, 22, 34, 90 | |
| Washington Area Defense Council | 31 | |
| Washington, D.C. Trip, 1948 | 43 | |
| Washington, D.C. Trip, 1951 | 44 | |
| Washington, D.C. Trip, 1954 | 44 | |
| Washington Emergency Relief Association | 22 | |
| Washington Fruit and Produce Company | 82 | |
| Washington Society of Professional Engineers | 33 | |
| Washington State Planning Council | 11, 12, 22 | |
| Washington Water Power Company | 22, 37, 90-93 | |
| Washington Water Power Company Equipment Tests | 92, 93 | |
| Water Heaters | 22 | |
| Water Pollution | 37 | |
| Water Resources Conference | 37 | |
| Water Wheels | 90, oversize | |
| Watt Meter Tests | 22 | |
| Weak Sulfite Wash Water Treatment | 37 | |
| Weary, A.C. | 88 | |
| Weather Strip | 37 | |
| Webster Recorder | 79 | |
| Wedel Company, Inc. | 22 | |
| Welding | 22 | |
| Wells, Greek | 37 | |
| Wenatchee, Wa. (Refrigeration) | 79-82 | |
| Wenoka (Refrigeration) | 22, 80 | |
| Western Electric Company | 14 | |
| Western Milling Company | 90 | |
| Westinghouse Electric Company | 22 | |
| Westvaco Chlorine Process | 49 | |
| Wheat | 22 | |
| Wheel Chair Patent | 37 | |
| Who's Who in America | 40 | |
| Wilkins Arctic Expedition | 22 | |
| Williams, Merle | 111 | |
| Wills | 111 | |
| Wire Recorder | 79 | |
| Wiring | 22 | |
| Wittmer, O.W. | 88 | |
| Woodworker | 111 | |
| Works Progress Administration | 22 | |
| Worm Gear Reducer | 22 | |
| Wright Field | 22, 40 | |
| Wright-Wrenchy Collision | 94 | |
| X-Ray | 37, 39 | |
| Yakima Refrigeration | 81 | |
| York Ice Manufacturing Company | 22 | |
| Zero-Lab | 37 | |