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Title: Basil Wilson papers
Dates: 1954-1977
Collection Number: mssWilson,
Basil papers
Creator:
Wilson, Basil W.
Extent:
6 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-3477
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Basil W. Wilson was a consulting
oceanographic engineer based in Pasadena, California. The collection consists of his
correspondence, papers, and notebooks.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
[Identification of Item], Basil Wilson papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Gift from Elizabeth Wilson, July 2001.
Basil W. Wilson was a consulting oceanographic engineer based in Pasadena,
California. Wilson was a professor of Engineering Oceanography at Texas A&M
University from 1952-1961. From 1961 to 1964 he conducted studies for the National
Engineering Science Company in Pasadena, California. Wilson went into private
practice in 1968 as a consulting oceanographic engineer whose work included
earthquake occurrence and effects in ocean areas, tsunami hazards, surge studies in
Long Beach harbor, and wave problems involving the dynamic behavior of offshore
structures and the mooring of supertankers.
The majority of the collection consists of correspondences and papers relating to
the Alaskan earthquake and tsunami of 1964, the Hilo Harbor Tsunamis, and a boat
landing project for Long Beach Harbor. There are also notebooks of other projects on
which Wilson worked.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by subject, retaining Wilson's order within the
subject.
Wilson, Basil W.
National Academy of Sciences
(U.S.)
Project Mohole
Port of Long Beach
Alaska Earthquake, Alaska,
1964
Civil engineering
Earthquake engineering
Oceanography - Research
Tsunamis - Alaska
Tsunamis - Hawaii - Hilo
Technical reports
Research notes