The R. H. Schallenberg Bottled Energy research files

Collection

Identifier: 2013-046

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Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1069062~S6

This is an extensive research collection covering all aspects of electrical engineering from the early 1800s to the end of World War II. It consists of photocopies of individual newspaper and journal articles as well as sections of published monographs. There is a small amount of original Schallenberg material in the form of comments on his readings.

Dates

Creation: 1991-1994

Language of Materials

Text in English, French and German.

Biographical sketch

Richard H. Schallenberg was born in Chicago, IL in June 1943. He graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic in 1965. After service in the Vietnam War he enrolled at Columbia University to study economic history. He began to teach at Yale University in 1970 then moved on to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University at Blacksburg. He died suddenly in 1980.

Extent

8.3 Linear Feet (8 boxes)

Additional Description

Abstract

This is a collection of files consisting of both original notes and photocopies of previously published materials assembled by Richard H. Schallenberg as an aid to him in his composition of the posthumously published 1982 book Bottled Energy: Electrical Engineering and the Evolution of Chemical Energy Storage.

Arrangement

Organized into four series. Series 1.Binders; Series 2.Photocopies; Series 3.Research Series 4. Patents.

Ownership and Custodial History

Transferred from National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--American Museum of Natural History. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--2013..

Related Archival Materials

Title--The Papers of Sol S. Jaffe The Samuel Ruben papers The Papers of Virgil Payne Hamer Collection Archives. Custodian--Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.: Provenance--See also.

Publications About Described Materials

Material used in the publication of: Bottled energy : electrical engineering and the evolution of chemical energy storage by Richard H. Schallenberg, American Philosophical Society,1982.