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- catalog abstract "The records document the use of the Rumford apparatus, a collection of scientific instruments and working models used for the promotion of the practical sciences by Daniel Treadwell, Joseph Lovering, and Eben Norton Horsford at Harvard in the 1830s and 1850s. The financial ledger, catalogue, and lists of articles in this collection illustrate the wide range of instruments comprising the apparatus, provide a glimpse into the scientific instruction and knowledge given to students at Harvard, demonstrate the use of the apparatus by the Mathematics department, and note the acquisition of instruments and models from England in the early nineteenth century.".
- catalog alternative "Formerly described as: Records of the Harvard Corporation. Professorship records: Rumford Professorship and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts.".
- catalog alternative "Harvard Corporation. Professorships Papers.".
- catalog contributor b2470456.
- catalog date "1835".
- catalog description "Detailed inventory available on paper in the Harvard University Archives or electronically: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua40011".
- catalog description "Harvard University. Records pertaining to the Apparatus of the Rumford Professorship and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts. UAI 15.1037, Harvard University Archives.".
- catalog description "The Rumford apparatus was comprised of a collection of scientific instruments and working models used for the promotion of the practical sciences and the demonstration of the usefulness of science to daily life. The apparatus was established in 1816 by Jacob Bigelow, the first Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts, and in subsequent years grew to include many items including a high pressure steam engine, a working model of a condensing engine, several model water wheels, a complete operating model of a cotton spinning machine and power loom, a slide rest lathe, a model of a last and block machine, a model of a railway, locomotive engine, and railroad car, an air pump, a model of a chronometer, common watch, and clock escapements, and a large number of plaster models of buildings and architectural structures.".
- catalog description "The records document the use of the Rumford apparatus, a collection of scientific instruments and working models used for the promotion of the practical sciences by Daniel Treadwell, Joseph Lovering, and Eben Norton Horsford at Harvard in the 1830s and 1850s. The financial ledger, catalogue, and lists of articles in this collection illustrate the wide range of instruments comprising the apparatus, provide a glimpse into the scientific instruction and knowledge given to students at Harvard, demonstrate the use of the apparatus by the Mathematics department, and note the acquisition of instruments and models from England in the early nineteenth century.".
- catalog extent ".22 cubic feet (1 legal half-document box)".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. University records. hua".
- catalog issued "1835".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Cambridge".
- catalog subject "Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Faculty.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University. Rumford Professorship and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts.".
- catalog subject "Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893.".
- catalog subject "Lovering, Joseph, 1813-1892.".
- catalog subject "Physics Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814.".
- catalog subject "Science Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Science Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Science instrumentation.".
- catalog subject "Scientific apparatus and instruments.".
- catalog subject "Technology.".
- catalog subject "Treadwell, Daniel, 1791-1872.".
- catalog title "Formerly described as: Records of the Harvard Corporation. Professorship records: Rumford Professorship and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts.".
- catalog title "Records pertaining to the Apparatus of the Rumford Professorship and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts, 1835-1836, 1851.".
- catalog type "Catalogs. aat".
- catalog type "Correspondence. aat".
- catalog type "collection".