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Call Number: SC1022
Creator:
Vincenti, Walter G., (Walter Guido), 1917-
Title: Walter G. Vincenti papers
Dates: 1917-2007
Physical Description:
14 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
Materials were the gift of Walter G. Vincenti, 2004.
Access: Materials are open for research use.
Walter G. Vincenti Papers (SC1022). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Walter G. Vincenti earned his AB in engineering at Stanford in 1938 and his Engineer’s degree in mechanical engineering in
1940. He was a research scientist with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), working at the Ames Aeronautical
Laboratory at Moffett Field until he joined the Stanford faculty in 1957. He cofounded Stanford’s Program in Values, Technology,
and Science in 1971 and served several terms as its chair.
Collection contains Vincenti’s lectures from a class on the history of the industrial revolution taught at Stanford’s overseas
campus in Cliveden, undated; class materials and lectures from VTS 121 Technology in Society: Historical Perspective, 1981;
lectures by Claude B. Fohlen on the Industrial Revolution 1972; lectures by Paul A. David on technology, society, and economy
1971; letters from Harriet Jones with photocopied papers of aeronautical scientist R. T. Jones, 1999-2000; and a seminar on
fluid mechanics.
David, Paul A.
Fohlen, Claude B.
Jones, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1910-
Stanford University -- General subdivision--Curricula.;
Industrial revolution.
Technology--Social aspects.