Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents note
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC1038
Creator:
Newell, J. S., (Joseph Shipley), 1897-1952.
Creator:
Niles, Alfred S., (Alfred Salem), 1894-
Title: Alfred S. Niles and Joseph S. Newell, Airplane Structures typescript
Dates: circa 1928
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
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
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), 1894-
Airplanes.