Technical drawings
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: The broad class of drawings that are intended for constructional, mechanical, or mapping purposes and that follow precise conventions of scale and projection, including cross-sections, details, diagrams, elevations, perspectives, plans, etc., made for use in a technical context.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Philo T. and Elma G. Farnsworth papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0648
Abstract
The Philo T. and Elma G. Farnsworth papers (1924-1992) contains biographical material, financial records, news clippings, speeches, journals, article reprints, patents, research notes, workbooks, daily activity notes, photographs, personal and professional correspondence, and awards. Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971) was a researcher, writer, and a pioneering developer of television, radar technology, peacetime applications of nuclear fusion, and the infant incubator. The last section of...
Dates:
1924-1992
Rocky Mountain Power Company records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0206
Abstract
The Rocky Mountain Power Company records (1876-1992) consist of reports describing the company's acquisitions of smaller companies from 1912 to 1938, as well as a history of the parent company's accomplishments in providing power to the intermountain area. Also included are diagrams for the construction of various area power plants.
Dates:
1876-1992
Harold F. Silver papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1551
Abstract
The Harold F. Silver papers (1941-1998) contains financial records of the Silver Corporation, requests for charitable contributions, documents relating to the sale of sugar processing machinery patents to American Factors Associates, and drawings of a continuous coal mining machine designed by Silver and built by Silver Engineering Works (1941-1946). Silver was a Utah and Colorado inventor, businessman, philanthropist and civic leader. He invented the continuous coal miner, a non-flammable dry...
Dates:
1941-1998
E. H. Snyder family mining papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 3121
Abstract
The E. H. Snyder family mining papers (1885-2005) details the development of mining within the Intermountain West and the history of the involvement of the Snyder family in mining.
Dates:
1885-2005
Utah Engineers Council photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: P0131
Abstract
The Utah Engineers Council photographic slide collection contains images of various mines, structures, and activities, including a slide presentation titled "Utah Engineering, Past and Present"
Dates:
1976