Maclaurin, Richard C. (Richard Cockburn), 1870-1920
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1870 - 1920
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection on the Celebration of the Move of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Boston to Cambridge
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0343
Abstract
The Dedication Reunion Committee was formed to oversee the celebrations for the dedication of MIT’s new Cambridge campus, which took place on June 12, 13, and 14, 1916. The committee was divided into over twenty subcommittees responsible for an elaborate set of festivities. Several subcommittees are represented in the collection, including the Undergraduate Reunion Committee and the Technology Pageant Committee, whose records form a major portion of the collection.
Dates:
1916 - 1920; Majority of material found in 1916 - 1916
Dugald C. Jackson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0005
Abstract
The collection documents the career of Dugald C. Jackson, a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1907 to 1935. Correspondence, reports, and other materials document Jackson's years as head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering, his innovations in the department and the undergraduate curriculum, the establishment of a cooperative education program (course 6-A), and his work on MIT committees. His work as a consulting engineer and inventor is...
Dates:
1878 - 1952
John Ripley Freeman papers
Collection — Box 137: [Barcode: 39080032131051]
Identifier: MC-0051
Abstract
The collection documents the activities of John Ripley Freeman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later a member of the MIT Corporation. Freeman worked as a consulting engineer for almost sixty years, 1876-1932. Project files containing correspondence, photographs, drafts and published reports, maps, diaries, computation and data, clippings, reprints and transcripts of testimony record his work on over 100 projects in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and...
Dates:
Bulk, 1876-1932 1827-1952; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1932
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Inaugural Committee records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0036
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) president inaugural committees since 1900. The records are primarily documents with some photographs and memorabilia. The inaugurations of Henry Pritchett, Richard Maclaurin, Ernest F. Nichols, and Samuel Wesley Stratton are documented in notebooks which contain minutes of committee and subcommittee meetings and copies of inaugural addresses. The inaugurations of James R. Killian, Julius A. Stratton,...
Dates:
1900 - 2005
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0013
Abstract
The collection documents the administration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the responsibilities and activities of the Institute's presidents between 1897 and 1930. This was a period of enormous growth and development of the Institute, which was chartered in 1861 and graduated its first class of undergraduates in 1868. There is correspondence about the proposed merger with Harvard University in 1904 and a proposed alliance in 1911. The purchase of land, the planning...
Dates:
1883 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1931
Richard C. Maclaurin papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0588
Scope and Contents
The collection of Richard C. Maclaurin papers consists mainly of Maclaurin’s notebooks from St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1892-1894. Included are copies of his Yorke Prize essay, the Tripos Prize essay, and the lecture notes on light, published in 1909 by Columbia University Press.
Dates:
1892 - 1908