Agriculture; Campbell (Calif.); Ephemera; Handbills; Propaganda; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
There are three pages of printed material: Two pages are dated "Nov. 4, 1910." One is to the "Superintendent of Public Instruction," the other "To the Officers and Members of Local No......., Farmers E. & C. U. of A.,...
"This unique piece of apparatus uses Lissajous figures to show that the ratio of the frequency ratios in a diatonic scale are ratios of small numbers. On the side is an air-driven vibrating reed with a small mirror attached to its free end....
David Brewster, creator of Brewster's Law, patented this device in 1817. It consisted of a long, hollow tube containing two glass mirrors running along the length of the tube and separated from each other at an angle of 60 degrees. Where mirrors...
Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.)
""This unique piece of apparatus uses Lissajous figures to show that the ratio of the frequency ratios in a diatonic scale are ratios of small numbers. On the side is an air-driven vibrating reed with a small mirror attached to its free...
Analog computers; College students; College teachers; Computation laboratories; Education; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Student life; Sullivan Engineering Center; Technology; University of Santa...
Black-and-white photograph of students and faculty working in early Computer Lab in Sullivan Engineering Center, circa 1965. Electrical Engineering faculty member Henry McKenna works on a digital computer with one of the first female engineering...
Cupertino (Calif.); Merithew, Joseph C.; People; Photographs; Ranch houses; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of the Captain Merithew's home and ranch, circa 1885. Written on the back of the photorgraph, "50 acres total. Left to right -- Uncle Joseph Merithew, Uncle Frederick Merithew, winery caretaker, (on porch)...
Hendy Iron Works; Industrial buildings; Iron-works; People; Postcards; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Sunnyvale (Calif.);
Black-and-white photograph on front of postcard of the interior of the Hendy Iron Works in Sunnyvale, Calif. Hendy Iron Works relocated to Sunnyvale after the San Francisco plant was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. It was the first large...
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Orchards; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Spraying equipment; Technology;
Black-and-white photograph of four men spraying trees in an orchard. On verso of photo: "Keeping an orchard healthy called for a lot of work. It meant spraying, dusting, pruning, irrigating, or some other form of attention almost the year...
Eitel, W. W.; McCullough, J. A.; Eitel-McCullough, Inc.; Men; Buildings; Automobiles; San Carlos (Calif.);
Printed on the photograph: "W. W. Eitel (left), President and J. A. McCullough, Executive Vice President, co-founders of Eimac in 1934, are shown in front of a new 150,000 square foot manufacturing plant and corporate headquarters in San...
Advertisements; Grauman, Sid, 1879-1950; Unique Theatre (San Jose, Calif.)
This is an undated (prior to April, 1906) single-fold advertising flyer for Grauman's Unique Theatre that includes advertisements for several other San Jose businesses. After the April 18, 1906 earthquake Sidney Grauman moved to Los Angeles,...
New Almaden Mines; Hardware;Mining equipment; Receipts
Duplicate receipt for purchase of 6 glass tubes by Quicksilver Mining Co. from Conroy & O'Connor, Importers of Hardware, Iron, Steel, and Other Metals, San Francisco, Nov. 30, 1864, (No.13 on verso)
Men; Priests; Women; S.S. Santa Clara Victory; Warships
"Miss Alicia McCone christening the S.S. Santa Clara Victory at launching ceremony at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yard in Los Angeles Harbor. Other's in group, left to right, are...Mrs. J.W.H. Aicher, matron of honor, the reverend...
