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The Greaves-Walker Ceramic Engineering Papers, 1925-1952, contains correspondence, financial records, reports, notes, calculation sheets, drawings, and other papers documenting A. F. Greaves-Walker's consulting work with industrial businesses, mostly in the United States but some in Canada. Topics include clay and mineral analyses, brick production, and design of facilities and equipment (including kilns). Some files were originally in the North Carolina State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering Records (UA 105.014) and were transferred to this collection. Greaves-Walker Engineers was the consulting firm of A. F. (Arthur Frederick) Greaves-Walker (1881-1954), who in 1924 founded the ceramic engineering program at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University). For a time in the 1920s, the firm was known as Greaves-Walker and Shands, when it offered mechanical engineering as well as ceramic engineering design services. It had become Greaves-Walker Engineers by the late 1930s. Less

This collection contains material documenting the career of Hayne Palmour, North Carolina State University Professor Emeritus of Ceramic Engineering. Included are biographical files, general correspondence, manuscripts, patents, administrative files, and research material generated by Palmour over a period of nearly six decades, from 1948 to 2004. Hayne Palmour began his career at North Carolina State University in 1958, retiring in 1994. During his tenure at North Carolina State, Palmour was active as a researcher, educator, advisor, and administrator. Specific research interests included mechanisms of flow and fracture in spinel structured ceramics, materials processing and rate controlled sintering, and precision digital dilatometry. His focus was in the development of processes for the firing of complex ceramics. His involvement with the international scientific and technical research community and many contributions that he made to the field of advanced ceramics engineering, the defense industry, and the world of nuclear power are documented in the collection. Dr. Palmour died in 2017 at the age of 91. Less