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Homer Jackson Dana Papers, 1910-1968

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Dana, Homer J. (Homer Jackson), 1890-1970
Title
Homer Jackson Dana Papers
Dates
1910-1968 (inclusive)
Quantity
65.5 Linear feet of shelf space, (131 Boxes)
Collection Number
Cage 299 (collection)
Summary
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.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

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.

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Content Description

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.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

[Item description]

Homer Jackson Dana Papers, 1910-1968 (Cage 299)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

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.

Acquisition Information

The papers 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. 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 added to this collection.

Processing Note

Lawrence Stark processed this collection, completing the project in 1975.

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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
Office of Naval 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

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Subject Terms

  • Communication -- Research
  • Electrification -- Research
  • Facsimile transmission -- Research
  • Highway Research
  • Lie detectors and detection -- Research
  • Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery -- Research

Personal Names

  • Dana, Homer J. (Homer Jackson), 1890-1970 -- Archives

Corporate Names

  • Washington State Research Foundation
  • Washington State University. College of Engineering
  • Washington State University. College of Engineering -- Faculty -- Archives

Finding aid prepared by Lawrence Stark
2022

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