Wilfred F. Langelier papers

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Descriptive Summary

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.

Access

The collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[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.

Acquisition Information

Donated to the Water Resources Collections and Archives in 1974 upon completion of the volume of collected works (see Folder 21).

Processing History

Processed by Water Resources Collections and Archives staff, 2001.

Collection Number

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.

Biographical Note

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.

Collection Scope and Contents

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.

Collection Arrangement

The collection is arranged topically into two series as follows:
  • Series 1. Reprints, 1929-1963
  • Series 2. Miscellaneous, 1925-1974

Related Collections

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.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

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

Genres and Forms of Materials

Articles
Photographs


 

Series 1. Reprints 1929-1963

Box 1, Folder 1

Langelier, Wilfred F.,and Joseph D. DeCosta. Operating experiences with the water purification plants of the East Bay Water Company 1929

Physical Description: p. 318-330

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 21:3 (March 1929).
Box 1, Folder 2

Langelier, Wilfred F. Shallow sedimentation basins 1930

Physical Description: p. 1484-1489

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 22:11 (November 1930).
Box 1, Folder 3

Langelier, Wilfred F. The theory and practice of aeration 1932

Physical Description: p. 62-72

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 24:1 (January 1932).
Box 1, Folder 4

Langelier, Wilfred F. The analytical control of anti-corrosion water treatment 1936

Physical Description: p. 1500-1521

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 28:10 (October 1936).
Box 1, Folder 5

Langelier, Wilfred F. Die analytische Überwachung der Wasserentsäuerung 1937

Physical Description: p. 135-151

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Published: Sonderabdruck aus "vom Wasser XII". Berlin : Verlag Chemie, 1937.German translation of article originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 28:10 (October 1936) - see Folder 4.
Box 1, Folder 6

DeMartini, Frank E. Corrosion and the Langelier calcium carbonate saturation index 1938

Physical Description: p. 85-111

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 30:1 (January 1938).
Box 1, Folder 7

Hoover, Charles P. Practical application of the Langelier method 1938

Physical Description: p. 1802-1807

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 30:11 (November 1938).
Box 1, Folder 8

Langelier, Wilfred F. A motorized apparatus for the rapid determination of calcium and magnesium in water 1940

Physical Description: p. 279-293

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 32:2 (February 1940).
Box 1, Folder 9

Langelier, Wilfred F. and Harvey F. Ludwig. Graphical methods for indicating the mineral character of natural waters 1942

Physical Description: p. 335-352

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 34:3 (March 1942).
Box 1, Folder 10

Langelier, Wilfred F. Chemical equilibria in water treatment and Effect of temperature on the pH of natural waters 1946

Physical Description: p. 169-185

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 38:2 (February 1946).
Box 1, Folder 11

Langelier, Wilfred F. and Harvey F. Ludwig. Mechanism of flocculation in the clarification of turbid waters 1949

Physical Description: p. 163-181

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 41:2 (February 1949).
Box 1, Folder 12

Langelier, Wilfred F. The electrochemical desalting of sea water with permselective membranes-a hypothetical process 1952

Physical Description: p. 845-848

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 44:9 (September 1952).
Box 1, Folder 13

Langelier, Wilfred F., Harvey F. Ludwig, and Russell G. Ludwig. Flocculation phenomena in turbid water clarification 1952

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Proceedings, American Society of Civil Engineers; v. 78, separate no. 118 (February 1952).
Box 1, Folder 14

Langelier, Wilfred F. Mechanism and control of scale formation in sea water distillation 1954

Physical Description: p. 461-469

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 46:5 (May 1954).
Box 1, Folder 15

Caldwell, D. H., and Wilfred F. Langelier. Manometric measurement of the biochemical oxygen demand of sewage 1948

Physical Description: p. 202-218

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Sewage works journal; v. 20:2 (March 1948).
Box 1, Folder 16

A souvenir of the golden anniversary of the Water Purification Division : celebrated at the 83rd Annual Conference of the American Water Works Association, Kansas City, May 19-24, 1963 1963

Physical Description: p. 1-38

Scope and Contents

Reprint. Originally published: Journal of the American Water Works Association; v. 55:7 (July 1963).
 

Series 2. Miscellaneous 1925-1974

Box 1, Folder 17

Draft of introduction to the oral history of Wilfred F. Langelier 1973

Scope and Contents

Written by P.H. McGauheyfor Langelier's oral history, which was published in 1982 by the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Langelier refused to allow it as an introduction because it extolled him too highly.
Box 1, Folder 18

Annual report of W.F. Langelier, chemist, to East Bay Water Company for the calendar year 1925

Box 1, Folder 19

Photograph album 1929

Physical Description: 80 photographs, mounted on paper and bound into album 13 x 19 cm., some with holograph captions

Scope and Contents

Includes views of Yosemite Valley, Davis University Farm, and water treatment plants in various U.S. cities.
Box 1, Folder 20

Reese, Edward J. Causes of bulking of activated sludge 1932

Scope and Contents

Thesis prepared in the College of Civil Engineering, University of California, May 1932, Wilfred F. Langelier,advisor.
Box 1, Folder 21

Langelier, Wilfred F. Water quality technology: selected papers 1974

Physical Description: 1 v., bound

Scope and Contents

Collected works of Langelier, 1921-1954, with an introduction by P. H. McGauhey.Many of the papers in this volume reproduce articles found in Folders 1-16.