The William Staley Bridges Papers contain reports of various individual student experiments made in the Mechanical Engineering Department at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) between 1947 and 1958.
William Staley Bridges was a professor of mechanical engineering at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) for 42 years, from 1919 to 1961. He received his B.S. and M.S. from North Carolina State College in 1919 and 1926 respectively.
William Staley Bridges (1890-1974) a professor of mechanical engineering at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) from 1919 to 1961 was born on 15 August 1890. He received his B.S. and M.S. from North Carolina State College in 1919 and 1926 respectively.
Bridges was a member of the North Carolina National Guard and served as 1st Sergeant and Master Sergeant of G-2 Infantry April 1917 through February 1919.
Memberships in organizations include North Carolina Registered Engineers, Raleigh Engineers Club, and the Masonic Lodge.
The William Staley Bridges Papers include reports of experiments made by students in the Mechanical Engineering program at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University). The reports are all in similar format. These reports include information such as the object of the experiment, a description of the aparatus, a theory, the procedure, the data collected, and conclusions. Some reports are handwritten and some are typed. Studies cover a broad range of subjects, including steam regulating equipment, radiator and generator tests, panel heat tests, heating control tests, a thermal flow study,an air dryer test, two effect evaporator test, steam jet refridgeration, vapor compression refrigeration tests and engine tests. The experiments dates range from 1947 to 1958.
This collection is arranged chronologically.
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[Identification of item], William Staley Bridges Papers, MC 00031, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Received 22 January 1969
Processed by Genya O'Gara, August 2008;
Encoded by Genya O'Gara, August 2008
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[Identification of item], William Staley Bridges Papers, MC 00031, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.