Manning, George Charles, 1892-1964

Scope and Contents

The George Charles Manning papers, which date between 1889 to 1942, comprise Naval Architecture files including specifications, blueprints, correspondence, testing for Bureau of Standards, ship design, and marine insurance. The collection also includes a manuscript of Fundamentals of Naval Architecture by Manning and a mixture of teaching material and professional papers.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises records created by the Department of Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1907 to 1982. The collection includes documents pertaining to administrative and academic operations, budget information, and ocean engineering programs in other institutions. It also contains student drawings, course materials, data from tests on the ships FUlton and Fronde, brochures, Visiting Committee reports, faculty meeting minutes, abstracts for the MIT Sea...