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Title: Wilfred F. Langelier papers
Date (inclusive): 1925-1974
Collection Number: WRCA 112
Creator:
Langelier, Wilfred F.
Extent:
0.42 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: The collection includes reprints of journal articles authored or co-authored by Langelier and articles that discuss Langelier's
work, P. H. McGauhey's draft (unused) introduction to the Langelier oral history, a photograph album, a bound volume of Langelier's
works, etc.
Languages: The collection is in English.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Wilfred F. Langelier papers (WRCA 112). Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Donated to the Water Resources Collections and Archives in 1974 upon completion of the volume of collected works (see Folder
21).
Processed by Water Resources Collections and Archives staff, 2001.
Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was MS 83/2 . This change was part of a project in 2018/2019
to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Wilfred F. Langelier was born in 1886 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1909 from New Hampshire
College (now University of New Hampshire) at Durham. From 1909 to 1916 he worked for the Illinois State Water Survey,and also
earned a M.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1911 from the University of Illinois. In 1916, Langelier accepted an assistant
professorship in Sanitary Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Charles Gilman Hydewas chiefly
responsible for bringing in Langelier, a chemist by training, to teach water chemistry in the Department of Civil Engineering.
Langelier remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 1955.
Langelier also served as a consulting sanitary engineer for the East Bay Water Company until 1928 when the company was taken
over by the East Bay Municipal Utility District, and is responsible for developing the Langelier Saturation Index, used to
determine how corrosive water might be to pipes and plumbing.
Wilfred Langelier died September 13, 1981 at his home in Berkeley, California.
Additional biographical information can by obtained from:
Teaching, Research, and Consultation in Water Purification and Sewage Treatment, University of California at Berkeley, 1916-1955, with an introduction by Erman Pearson. An oral history conducted in 1970 by Malca Chall, Regional Oral History Office, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
The collection includes reprints of journal articles authored or co-authored by Langelier and articles that discuss Langelier's
work, P. H. McGauhey's draft (unused) introduction to the Langelier oral history, a photograph album, a bound volume of Langelier's
works, etc.
The collection is arranged topically into two series as follows:
- Series 1. Reprints, 1929-1963
- Series 2. Miscellaneous, 1925-1974
Charles Gilman Hyde Papers, 1904-1956. WRCA 046, Water Resources Collections and Archives.
P. H. McGauhey Collection. WRCA 084, Water Resources Collections and Archives.
California Bureau of Sanitary Engineering Papers, 1911-1963. WRCA 095, Water Resources Collections and Archives.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
East Bay Water Company
McGauhey, P. H. (Percy Harold)
University of California, Berkeley. Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory
Sanitary engineering
Sewage -- Purification -- Research -- California
Water -- Purification -- Research -- California
Articles
Photographs