Guide to the Alfred S. Niles and Joseph S. Newell, Airplane
Structures Typescript
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
May 2011
Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of
Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC1038
Title: Alfred S. Niles and Joseph S. Newell, Airplane Structures
typescript
Dates: circa 1928
Physical Description:
0.25 linear foot
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Materials were the gift of Walter Vincenti, 1985.
Information about Access
Access: Materials are open to research use.
Cite As
[identification of item], Alfred S. Niles and Joseph S. Newell, Airplane Structures
Typescript (SC1038). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Alfred S. Niles was professor of aeronautic engineering at Stanford University from 1927
until his retirement in 1959. In 1929 the first edition of Airplane Structures by Alfred
S. Niles and Joseph S. Newell was published by John Wiley & Sons. Newell, who had
worked with Niles at McCook Field, was professor of aeronautical structural engineering
at M.I.T.
Scope and Contents note
Collection contains corrected typescripts of chapters 1 through 15, list of figures,
illustrations, and index. Most of the pages are carbon copies but a few are
mimeographed; the illustrations are copies, not originals.
Access Terms
Newell, J. S., (Joseph Shipley),
1897-1952.
Niles, Alfred S., (Alfred Salem), b.
1894.
Airplanes.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Chapters 1-2 (General Design Procedure; Problems)
circa 1928
Box 1, Folder 2
Chapters 3-5 (Reactions, Shears, Moments, and Influence Lines;
Continuous and Restrained Beams; Design of Simple Beams)
circa 1928
Box 1, Folder 3
Chapters 6-9 (Torsion; Truss Analysis; Graphical Methods; Design of
Simple Ties and Columns)
circa 1928
Box 1, Folder 4
Chapter 10-12 (Connections; Combined Bending and Compression; Allowable
Stresses in Combined Bending and Compression)
circa 1928
Box 1, Folder 5
Chapter 13 (Deflections)
circa 1928
Box 1, Folder 6
Chapters 14-15 (Statically Indeterminate Structures; Weight
Estimation)
circa 1928
Box 1, Folder 7
List of figures and preface
circa 1928
