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The Dissemination of Disease-Producing Micro-Organisms by Sputa

Creator:: Elrod, De Walt Quinn
Abstract:: Micro-organisms are a distinct class of unicellular vegetable organisms placed under the general name of bacteria instead of trying to affix either algae or fungi to this class of living beings. These microorganisms are divided into two classes; pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria. The pathogenesis is determined by inoculating a susceptible...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The College Girl's Wardrobe

Creator:: Sprague, Helen Maude
Abstract:: The mother's first thought, when her daughter finishes her preparatory work and expresses a desire for College is, "How can I let her go?" This seems the greatest problem though when she becomes reconciled to the fact that she must lose her sometime, she debates with herself, "Is my daughter...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

A Modern and Model Home

Creator:: Edwards, Velma
Abstract:: "The house does not make the home, but it has a great deal of influence on the health and character of the family. In planning a house, its special uses must be considered. The house intended for a home should be made s convenient, sanitary and attractive as possible. The...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design and Construction of a 5 K.W., D. C. generator

Creator:: Gilkey, Jesse Smart and Chapman, Alexander Kesterson
Abstract:: Since this treatise is to deal only with the construction of one special machine it is unnecessary to go into an extended discussion of dynamo electric machinery in general. Some of the parts common to all electric machinery of this character will be mentioned and then a short account of...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Tests Made on Direct Current Side of a Double Current Generator

Creator:: Soi, Mulk Raj and Hull, Charles Darwin
Abstract:: In long distance transmission where it is impossible to transmit a direct current for electric rail roading and for many other applications on a very low voltage percent line loss, it is essential to transmit the power by means of an alternating current at high pressure and then reduce its...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Testing of a Direct Current Machine

Creator:: Taggart, Durland Orville and McColl, Nelson Felde
Abstract:: Living now in an age where the steam engine in many localities soon will be a mere relic more than a useful mechanism with which to convert steam into useful energy. It is rapidly being replaced by the gas engine and the electric generator, in which the latter is thought...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Standard Oil Company and the Development of Corporations

Creator:: Christiansen, Conrad
Abstract:: As far back as History goes we have conclusive proof that man has traded commodities with his fellow-men. At first these exchanges were in the form of barter, a man would trade something which he had and did not care much for,with another man who had something he desired more....
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The organization of the Union Pacific

Creator:: Baker, Walter Rawalt
Abstract:: This thesis is mainly a collection of historic data regarding the Union Pacific Railroad together with the opinions of various persons regarding the Union Pacific; also opinions on corporations in general and railway corporations in particular.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of an Automobile Gasoline Engine

Creator:: Pierce, Ralph Hillar
Abstract:: In designing a machine of any kind, considerations must be made regarding the kind and amount of work it will be required to do, the foundation for its support, and the amount of space available for its occupancy. An engine which is to be used for driving an automobile must...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Hydro-Electric Power Plant

Creator:: Worstell, Ralph and Zimmerman, Henry Roderick
Abstract:: The data used in the design of this hydro-electric generating station was furnished by Hon. Walter M. Pierce from a survey conducted by T. R. Barry C. E. in the service of the Grande Ronde Water Co. during the summer of 1906. In the preparation of this thesis there were...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Design of a Gas Engine Muffler

Creator:: Farnsworth, William Yates
Abstract:: Simple as may seem. the subject, "A gas engine muffler," to the reader on first thought, if he will but take time to consider the importance of such a device in connection with the operation of internal combustion engines, he will probably come to the conclusion that it is not...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Mineral Resources of Oregon

Creator:: Winslow, Gilbert Fayette and Bowen, C. E. (Charles Edwin)
Abstract:: A mineral map is often of considerable value to those interested in miring work and development. Since there are very few, if any such maps for Oregon, we have endeavored to cover the ground, though only in an incomplete way, since the time we had for working upon it was...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Transformers

Creator:: Sutton, William Dantzler and Beaty, Jesse James
Abstract:: The financial success or failure of a lighting or power enterprise is measured by the efficiency of the machinery, and the efficiency of the machinery depends upon that of each piece of apparatus of which it is composed. In alternating current distribution the transformers are frequently scattered in large numbers...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

A proposed hydro-electric plant including its high-tension transmission and distribution systems

Creator:: Bendshadler, Charles F. and Bendshadler, George Henry
Abstract:: The proposed hydraulic power plant, incorporated under the name of, "Minem Light and Power Company", is located on the Minam River, about two miles above the junction of the Minam and Wallowa Rivers. This is about three miles above the county highway bridge which is on the Wallow River, this...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of an Electric-Driven Saw Mill

Creator:: Autzen, Thomas and Smith, N. T.
Abstract:: The electric motor has for an number of years occupied an important position in the operation of wood-working machinery, of moderate capacity, for example the planing mills, sash and door factories and many of the other similar wood working shops. However its adoption in the more trying field of saw...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of a Roof Truss for the Proposed Drill Shed at the Oregon Agricultural College

Creator:: Thompson, Ralph Infield
Abstract:: By an appropriation of the Oregon Legislature of it becomes possible for the Oregon Agricultural College to build a drill shed, a thing long needed by this institution. Dennis, Hendricks and Tobey, architects of Portland, submitted plans for this drill shed and in designing the truss for this building we...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design and Specification of a Dwelling House

Creator:: Anderson, Arvid
Abstract:: The design and specification of a dwelling house constitutes the thesis of the student Arvid Anderson of the class of '08. This thesis consists of two parts, namely: drawings and written description or specification. The drawings and specifications are to be considered as cooperative, the latter are necessary to express...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Electric plants for private homes

Creator:: Donelson, Earl Irvington
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Proposed wardrobe for a girl in moderate circumstances for her senior year : estimating the cost

Creator:: Pratt, Lois L.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Eggs and Their Uses

Creator:: Harpole, Ethel Elnora
Abstract:: There is no article of food more commonly used in all parts of the world than the egg. It can be served in so many ways and has such a high nutritive value that it is universally used as a food, by the uncivilized native as well as the most...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Cereal Breakfast Foods

Creator:: Bell, Sadie
Abstract:: "After writing this thesis I have drawn for my conclusion that cereal breakfast foods as a class are nutritious, convenient, and reasonably economical foods and should have a very important place in the diet."--Conclusion
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Desserts

Creator:: Peery, Maymie O'Cleva
Abstract:: A desert is a service of fruits, sweetmeats or pastry served at the end of a meal. The number of different kinds of desserts is almost limitless.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Place in American Literature

Creator:: Thomson, Rilla A.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Salads

Creator:: Russ, Edna Mae
Abstract:: "Salads are not a food of nutriment but are healthful because of mineral salts, which contain cooling and crispness properties--variety they give the diet. And salads should be served at every luncheon and dinner, the meat salad being served at luncheon or supper, while the lighter in dietetic value with...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Construction and Operation of a Direct Current Compound Wound Generator

Creator:: Crowe, Elmer Raymond and Howard, Charles Harry
Abstract:: Electricity is the name given to an invisible agent known to us only by its attendant phenomena and by various manifestations called electrical. These manifestations, at first obscure and even mysterious, are now well understood. Indeed its great importance to mankind can only be realized when we remember that it...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Induction Motor and Performance Test

Creator:: Buchanan, Elmer Clarence and Smith, Arthur Byron
Abstract:: The following discussion is confined mostly to that type of machine in which the squirrel care revolving secondary it used. In its most primitive form it con - listed simply of a disk- aramature as described by Baily in 1870 and due to Tesla (1888), of the fact that two,...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Eggs as a Food

Creator:: Starr, Wilda
Abstract:: There is probably no article of diet of animal origin more commonly eaten in all countries or served in a greater variety of ways than eggs. Milk is the nearest rival and it resembles eggs in that both are intended by nature for food for the young. Although not a...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Water Supplies

Creator:: Harrington, Gretta
Abstract:: Water is one of the primary wants of human life no less essential than air and food hence the strong and religious interest that has been attached to the means of its supply. In the earliest records of civilization we read of the digging of wells and building of water...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Creator:: Currin, Nettie Elsie
Abstract:: Slowly and half-heartedly the people of America have come to atone for past neglect of a poet who, under painful circumstances, produced the most distinctive and original contributions to American literature. They realize that the follies of his unfortunate life can be put aside and the weight of criticisms let...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Bread and Bread Making

Creator:: Vincent, Pearl
Abstract:: Evolution, development and progress mark the pathway of mankind from the earliest history of the race to the present time. In art, science and literature, remarkable transformations have taken place; in habits, customs and modes of living; we have passed from the primitive conditions of wild, savage tribes to that...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Moulds in the Home, Economically Considered

Creator:: Pogue, Bessie Evalena
Abstract:: "Moulds are minute vegetable organisms, without chlorophyll, threadlike in structure, and reproduced by spores. The general appearance is a dense felt-like mass of white threads, at first soft and fluffy, and when fruiting are covered with blue, green, yellow, black or brown spores. The threads are very small, some just...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Position of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Among Nineteenth Century Poets

Creator:: Newkirk, Evaline
Abstract:: Before we can write intelligently concerning any subject, we must understand exactly what we are writing about. As the title tells us, this thesis deals exclusively with the work and incidentally with the lives of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, two notable nineteenth century poets.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Salads

Creator:: Irvine, Georgia
Abstract:: Certain uncooked plants, fruits, nuts, cooked vegetables and meats seasoned with condiments and dresses with oils constitute what is known as salads. The salad plant contains no appreciable amount of nutriment, yet are, owing to their crispness and cooling properties, an indispensable portion of the ideal dinner, and are aids...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Tests of a Direct Current Generator

Creator:: Leonard, Charles Herbert and Harris, Charles Sinclair
Abstract:: It is necessary before placing any piece of apparatus on the market to thoroughly test it under similar conditions to that for which it was designed, and to rate it accordingly to the results of the tests, allow a reasonable margin for unusual conditions. By the aid of our technical...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Theory and Operation of the Synchronous Motor

Creator:: Groth, Bernard John and Cross, George Albert
Abstract:: The study, design, construction, operation and care or synchronous machines forms one of the most important branches of electrical engineering. The extent to which they are now being used is a notable feature of recent electric progress. The term synchronous machines covers quite a field and it might be well...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Bread and Bread Making

Creator:: Ewing, Georgia Virginia
Abstract:: Bread is a kind of food made of the flour or meal of some species of grain, by kneading it (with the addition of a little salt, and sometimes sugar) into a dough, yeast being commonly added to cause fermentation or "lightness", and then baking it. The yeast causes alcoholic...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Mushrooms : Their Cultivation, Preservation and Culinary Preparation, Including Descriptions of the Common Edible Varieties

Creator:: Winniford, Martha and Davidson, Gertrude
Abstract:: M. E. Hard defines a mushroom as "a cellular, flowerless plant, nourished by the mycelium which permeates the soil or other substances on which the mushroom grows". In all probability mushrooms are the most, interesting of all the higher organized fungi. Within the past few years, interest in them has...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

A House

Creator:: Currin, Linnie Edith
Abstract:: The author has not previously had any course in House Construction, but the inspiration for the these was received from having seen the work done by a class in that subject. The plans for the house, with the windows, doors, cupboards in the kitchen, fireplaces, some of the furniture and...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Consular Service of the United States

Creator:: Carmichael, George B.
Abstract:: The consular service of the United States is the outgrowth of the necessities arising from the various conditions in which our government has been from time to time. In the early part of the Revolutionary War our foreign representatives had very diverse and comprehensive duties. They exercised fiscal, diplomatic, and...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Second National Period of American Literature

Creator:: Gray, Greta India and Hansell, Lora
Abstract:: As young as American Literature is, it has been found necessary to divide it into five periods, namely: First Colonial Period (1620-1689); Second Colonial Period (1689-1763); Revolutionary (1763 -1815); First National Period (1815 -1863). Though by courtesy called Literature, the first attempts at writing by our forefathers cannot properly be...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Desserts

Creator:: Johnson, Cleo Lorena and Buchanan, Carrie
Abstract:: If it be true that the meaning of desserts is to offer something more exquisite still, then from the hygienic standpoint, the wisdom of the procedure is nil unless it follows as a finishing grace to a simple dinner of meat and vegetables. There is in this department of culinary...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The theoretical design and construction of a .25 calibre automatic repeating rifle

Creator:: Winniford, John Franklin
Abstract:: In the construction of a rifle for sporting or target work there are several conditions to be met. In the first place the rifle must be made to balance easily.at all times, whether the magazine is full of loaded cartridges or is empty. In all cases the barrel of the...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Plans and Specifications for a Bungalow

Creator:: MacMillan, David
Abstract:: Footings shall be of concrete, six inches square at top and twelve inches at bottom. To be composed of one part Portland cement, three parts charp, clean sand and six parts of good clean gravel.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design and Construction of a Yacht

Creator:: Wallace, Earl Wayne
Abstract:: "Of all the different types of sail boats used for pleasure on western inland waters, the 'skip-jack' seems to be the general favorite. This style of boat is known by many names such as 'skip-jack', 'lark', 'skimming-dish', etc., and they are so called from the manner in which they ride...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

O.A.C. Campus Lighting Design

Creator:: Wright, David Alvis and Davolt, Claud
Abstract:: "Since the present power and heating plant was installed the number of buildings has increased so rapidly that the present equipment is unable to supply the necessary power for the proposed electrical and mechanical laboratories. In this design it is assumed that Waldo and Cauthorn halls are to be heated...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Concrete as a material for engineering construction work

Creator:: Hanny, John Edward
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Carburation and Carburetors for Internal Combustion Engines

Creator:: Emily, Joel
Abstract:: "It has been the purpose in this thesis to show and explain the carburetor from its infancy up to its present status."--Conclusion
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The theory, design, and construction of a 5 k.w., 125 volt, compounded, direct current generator

Creator:: Wiggen, Eugene Cyrus and Baker, Walter Rawalt
Abstract:: It has been a standing problem among the scientists of the past and will perhaps be puzzled-over for many centuries to come; namely the most efficient method of transmitting power from one point to another. The nearest solution at present, and a very satisfactory one, is electricity. By means of...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design of an Hydro-Electric Power System

Creator:: Wall, Rupert and Sleight, Thomas Roy
Abstract:: A feasible development for a Hydro-Electric power plant can be found in the Mary's River. About 9 miles west of Corvallis, the north fork of the stream affords an excellent situation for a dam site. The canon of the north fork at this point is very narrow, and having good...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Induction Motor

Creator:: Taber, Howard Weston and Spires, Fred Lloyd
Abstract:: The problem of the economical transmission of power has long been a serious one to the engineer. Formerly the power had to be generated on or near the spot where it was to be used, but now the advance that has been made in Electrical Engineering has largely done away...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Kale, as a Winter Food for Swine

Creator:: Sprague, Claude Bates
Abstract:: "In conclusion it may be said that kale is almost a winter maintenance ration for swine, but when fed in addition with a little grain or skim milk, good growths will be made. Especially is this true of young pigs as is denoted by the tables. Taking all in all,...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Strength of Commercial Tincture of Opium as Compared with that of the United States Pharmacopoeia

Creator:: Waggoner, Walter Robertson and Kerr, Fred
Abstract:: Laudanum is the commercial name of "Tincture of Opium", or "Tinctura Opii", as recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia. It contains 10% granulated opium, one of the most powerful and common hypnotics known, or from 1.2 to 1.25% of morphine sulphate, the principal alkaloid found in opium and to which...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Design and installation of a switchboard for the Engineering laboratory

Creator:: Chambers, Lincoln Beaumont and Wood, Walter Ernest
Abstract:: See thesis for abstract.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Theory and Construction of an Induction Motor

Creator:: Chapin, Norris Everard and Christiansen, Clarence Lewis
Abstract:: In order that the proper motor for a given service may be chosen it becomes necessary to study and know the requirements and characteristics of the machine which may be used for that purpose. When these are known the selection of that one which is best adapted for the use...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Plans and Specifications for a Sewerage System for all of Corvallis Lying West of Ninth Street

Creator:: Gardner, Wilford W.
Abstract:: At the present time only a portion of Corvallis is sewered and a portion of the city still employs the most crude and unhealthful methods of disposal. The district east of Ninth Street, as shown on the map, has an effective system of well constructed sewers, of the combined storm-water...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Swine feeding with the ordinary cereals

Creator:: Reynolds, Ralph Elmer
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Determination of Iodine in Kelp

Creator:: McLain, Liva Charles and Harding, Earle Paul W.
Abstract:: Among sea-weeds the kelps include some of the largest, most widely distributed and most important forms considered from an economical standpoint. They are technically classified among the crown algae in the family Laminariaceae, which comprises some twenty-five genera. Kelps occur most abundantly in the colder sea water, but they are...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Design, Construction, and Testing of a Revolving Field, Three Phase Alternator

Creator:: Brown, Sherman Asher and Thayer, Edward Sprague
Abstract:: By way of preface, a few words may be said regarding the advantages of the revolving field type of machine. The first in its favor and the chief reason for its existence, is that by passing the heavy armature current through permanent stationary contacts and only the small field current...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Classification of the Common Orders of Plants Found Around Corvallis

Creator:: King, Bertha Anna and Starr, Grace E.
Abstract:: In collecting our representative flowering plants, we have endeavored to secure a specimen of each common genus of annuals and biennials as well as a few shrubs. The notes, drawings, and classification of fifty of these plants constitute the main part of our thesis. Following are the classifications of various...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

A course of penmanship for our public schools

Creator:: Williamson, Clyde Everett
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The design of a 1000 k.w. hydro electric power plant

Creator:: McNeill, Ralph Waldo and Stebinger, Carl Marion
Abstract:: One of the most important and likewise practical problems that oonfront the Electrioal Engineers of the present daysis the design and the construotion of Hydro Electrio Power plants for the generating of electrioal energy,both for power and li;hting purposes. In order that we might become better acquainted with the facts...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

House comfortable

Creator:: Leonard, L. Pearl and Herbert, Bessie Ruth
Abstract:: In taking up this study of the evolution of the home, we have considered it not so much as a dwelling place for a family, but as a structure - first, as a natural, later as an artificial edifice, a work of architecture, tracing the history of home - building...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Extension of American Commerce into the Latin Republics of America

Creator:: Wills, Reuben Ernest
Abstract:: Since the establishment of the Independence of the Latin- American States, no year has passed in which they did not increase their trade relations with foreign nations. The prominence given to the Third International Conference of the South American States; the postponement of The Hague Peace Conference; the subsequent appointment...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Fire insurance

Creator:: Leonard, Homer Clarence
Abstract:: During the last twenty-five or thirty years the growth of the fire insurance business of the United States has been in close correspondence with the increase in this country of insurable property, and hence at present, instead of not realizing the advantages of this form of protection against loss, it...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The History, Management, Advantages, and Deficiencies of the National Banking System

Creator:: Stovall, Alva Edwin
Abstract:: "In 1862 Secretary Chase recommended a scheme for the management of National Banks which was modeled after the New York Act, A bill embodying the principal measures proposed by the Secretary was passed in 1863. The plan, however, proved to be inoperative, and was superseded by the Act of June...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

A Chemical Study of Western Oregon Nutgalls

Creator:: Johnson, Clarence William and De Haven, Glen
Abstract:: Few discoveries of any importance have been the result of a moment's happy coincidence; rather have they been the fruit of many hours of tedious thought and experiment. This is especially true in the realm of organic chemistry. Here, where progress is made only by the most painstaking experimentation, extensive...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

American Literature in the South

Creator:: Currin, Lillie Florence and Adams, Kate D.
Abstract:: Literature is recorded thought or knowledge; the aggregate of books and other publications, in either an unlimited or a limited sense; the collective body of literary productions in general, or within a particular sphere, period, country or language. In a restricted sense, the class of writings in which expression and...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Composition of the Hop (Humulus lupus) with Reference to its Plant Food Content

Creator:: Bundy, Lyman Albert
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Salads

Creator:: Dyer, Mildred and Buchanan, Mildred
Abstract:: As a nation salad is a dish we do not sufficiently appreciate; while the French perhaps surpass all other countries in the number and variety of their salads. Their quick ingenuity seems to enable them to turn almost everything in nature that is edible into a tempting salad. Am expert...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The source and chemical characteristics of commercial oil of turpentine

Creator:: Dunlap, Margaret
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The composition and purity of vinegar sold in various parts of the state of Oregon

Creator:: Howard, Joseph William and Struve, Marcus
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Representative Writers of the Victorian Period

Creator:: Oviatt, May
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Theory and Construction of a Rotary Converter

Creator:: Hinrichs, Max A., Spicer, Roger, and Witzig, Alva Asa
Abstract:: See thesis for abstract.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Accumulators or, Secondary batteries

Creator:: Beaty, Edward Benjamin and Paulson, Joseph
Abstract:: A storage battery is a cell. or a series of cells capable of storing up electric energy and giving it off at a required time. A storage battery acts upon the same principle as a galvanic cell in giving forth electric current as the equivalent of chemical energy, but it...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The Electrical Equipment of an Ocean-Going Vessel

Creator:: Groves, Del Roy and Barnett, Arthur Rex
Abstract:: The rapid advancement of electrical science has led it to invade the field of marine engineering. On ship-board, all ship's lights, search lights and signal lights are entirely electric. Of power appliances outside of uses on men of war,ship's ventilation is completely electric; electric deck winches and boat cranes are...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

The design and construction of a 1500 watt electric motor

Creator:: Alspaugh, Augustus Marshall
Abstract:: Electromagnetic engines, or motors, are machines in which the motive power is derived from electric currents by means of their electromagnetic action. The following design is for a 1½ K.W. bi-polar motor.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Classified List of the Flowering Plants on a Benton County Farm

Creator:: Whitby, Isabel Harris
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Orchard Irrigation

Creator:: Schrack, Claud and Currin, Harvey William
Abstract:: Irrigation should be recognized as agricultural art of very wide applicability and value. Its association with the idea of desert reclamation has blinded the public mind to its value in reginos where there is no need of reclamation. It is a means of soil improvement to be employed, like other...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Orchard Cover Crops

Creator:: McCully, Russell Alfred and Hall, Frank E. (Frank Edward)
Abstract:: To the North West horticulturist there is no problem which confronts him of so great moment as that of soil fertility; and. no phase of horticulture is more deserving of the attention of fruit growers, than is given at the present time to the growing of orchard. cover crops.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Composition and Food Value of Some Cattle Foods

Creator:: Rashid, Mohammed Abdul
Abstract:: The word food is a common noun used every day and by every one. But have you ever thought of its full significance? Any substance that can support life or help to support it is food. Plants require food to support them when growing; they find it in the air...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Grazing in the National Forests

Creator:: Lake, Roscoe Verne
Abstract:: One of the most important matters which face the people of the United States at the present time is the conservation of the National Forests. It is estimated that at the present rate of consumption, if there is nothing done to conserve them, or build up new ones, the forests...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Alfalfa, its History and Cultivation for Production

Creator:: Schrack, Charles Vernon
Abstract:: Alfalfa is one of the oldest of cultivated forage plants. It was cultivated by the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and other nations of the Fast before the beginning of the Christian era. It is a native of the southern and western portion of Asia. It was early introduced into Spain and...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Portland Cement Mortars and their Constitutent Materials

Creator:: Clark, Roy Ross and Luse, Fred Deininger
Abstract:: The rapid advance of concrete engineering in the West has made necessary reliable information as to the strength qualities of the most important marketable, sands In the eastern states, theory and practice have advanced hand in hand, by the investigation of the constituent materials of concrete. In the West, no...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

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