Abstract

Mixed boxes consisting of materials relating to Otto Duke's career in mining engineering, as well as personal material, between 1919 and 1975.

Scope and Contents

Maps, diagrams, blueprints, and other engineering materials dealing with various companies, including USS Lead Refinery, Inc, Combined Metals Reduction Company, Kennecott Copper Corp., Utah Power and Light Company, American Zinc, Lead, and Smelting Co., Denver Equipment Co., Climax Molybdenum Co., Great Western Engineers, Inc., Allison Steel Manufacturing Company, American Smelting and Refining Company, Link-Belt Company, M. H. Detrick Co., and others. Dated 1917 to 1973.

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The series includes papers from Otto Duke's time as both a student and a teacher from 1919 to 1945, mainly at the University of Utah dealing with mechanical engineering, such as notebooks, coursework, school newspapers, and reports on topics such as steam turbines, mechanics, materials, roasters, and others.

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Includes diagrams and materials dealing with projects for the Columbia Steel Company, such as crane lists, engineering personnel list, letters regarding Otto Duke's attempts to get a job there, and other diagrams and blueprints. Includes materials form 1941 to 1944.

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Includes diagrams and materials dealing with projects for the F. C. Torkelson Co., such as expense records, operating costs, Bailey Meter Co., limestone crushing plant, electric mine hoists, Kennecott Mill reports, Ferron Canyon Coal job, Hayden Smelter (Arizona), Smelter emissions control, and more from 1946-1975.

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Includes diagrams and materials dealing with projects for the United states Smelting, Refining and Mining Company from 1924 to 1958, especially those in Alaska, Chicago, Torrence, CA, and Midvale, UT. Some of these projects include asphalt, turbine generators, tail sluice, dredge data, conveyors, a lead refinery, a zinc plant, and a crushing plant.

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Includes diagrams and materials dealing with projects for the US Naval Supply Depot in Clearfield, UT, such as a dispensary project, marine barracks project, heating studies, correspondence, specifications, concrete tanks, "The Seagull" (three 1945 issues), and more. Dated 1942 to 1945.

Scope and Contents Includes diagrams and materials dealing with projects for the Utah Construction-Stearns Roger Joint Venture, specifically the San Manuel Copper Smelter in Tucson, AZ from 1953-1956. Materials include M. H. Treadwell Co. quotes for copper converters, Industrial Physics and Electronics Co. weighing systems description, concentrator, Allis Chalmers proposal for copper converters, Traylor Engineering & Manufacturing proposal for copper converters, notes and drawings regarding reverb furnace,...