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Call Number: SC0553
Creator:
Beckwith, Sterling
Title: Sterling Beckwith papers
Dates: 1929-1992
Physical Description:
45 Linear feet
Summary: Papers pertain to his interest and work in engineering and include drawings, notes, publications, correspondence, reports,
plans, financial records, manuals, photographs, and patent files. Subjects include helicopters and polycopters, hydroelectric
projects (including that of Paradise, California), the Nitrafix Process [recovery of nitrogen from engine exhaust], turbine
generators, vehicles and transportation, and Chicago Stock Yards Research Division files. The collection also includes two
films ("Tow Test Films" and "Polycopter Indoors & Outdoors").
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Sterling Beckwith Papers (SC0553). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Engineer and inventor, Sterling Beckwith earned his A.B. at Stanford University in 1927 and his M.S. at Pittsburgh in 1929.
Papers pertain to his interest and work in engineering and include drawings, notes, publications, correspondence, reports,
plans, financial records, manuals, photographs, and patent files. Subjects include helicopters and polycopters, hydroelectric
projects (including that of Paradise, California), the Nitrafix Process [recovery of nitrogen from engine exhaust], turbine
generators, vehicles and transportation, and Chicago Stock Yards Research Division files. The collection also includes two
films ("Tow Test Films" and "Polycopter Indoors & Outdoors").
Beckwith, Sterling
Engineering.
Helicopters
Hydroelectric power plants.