Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Edward A. Rix papers, 1852-1933.
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
Edward A. Rix papers, 1852-1933History of science and technology collection
Creator/Contributor:
Rix, Edward A. (Edward Austin), 1855-1929, creatorAbstract:
Correspondence, 1882-1926; notes; patents, 1880-1933; memory album; high school recollections; a biography by daughter, Elizabeth
Rix DeWolf and illustrated autobiographical data.
Also included: family letters, mostly from his mother to friends in Vermont, from San Francisco in the 1850s.
Date:
1852 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMechanical engineering
Inventions
Génie mécanique
Inventions
mechanical engineering
Business
Inventions
Mechanical engineering
Travel
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Business
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel
California -- San Francisco
Note:
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.
Also available on microfilm with call no. BANC FILM 3245.
Photo-catalog of the Rix Compressed Air and Drill Co. removed to Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1979.043--PIC).
San Francisco engineer, businessman and inventor of compressed air pumps and drills.
Type:
Notes.Patents (licences)
Photograph albums.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Letters.
Physical Description:
print
.25 linear ft. (1 box)
1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 1708) and positive.
Language:
English