Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Project files, 1943-1957.

     Series 26 contains files of early engineering projects undertaken under the auspices of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.  All of the projects selected for this series pertain to Florida's economic development.  These include project files related to Florida's woodland, citrus, and phosphate industries, as well as research related to hurricanes and beach erosion.  Also included in the series are files of local interest related to the University of Florida and the Gainesville, Florida area.
     The series is divided into subseries; each subseries deals with a specific industry or subject.  Within the subseries, the original Experiment Station project numbers and titles have been retained.  The projects are listed numerically. (The first two digits in the project number denote the year in which a project was initiated).  Most of the files originated in the office of the Experiment Station, but several are from the files of the Department of Chemical Engineering.  The latter were retained to supplement the information contained in the Station's master file and to fill in a gap for missing Station files for 1948 and part of 1947.  Station project files are denoted by EIES before the number and Chemical Engineering files by CE.
     The content of the files varies, but each file may contain correspondence, progress reports, photographs, project statements, and publication manuscripts.
      Subseries i and o do not exist.

Subseries 26a
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's phosphate industry, 1944-1952.
     1 linear ft.  (3 boxes)

     Subseries 26a contains project files related to Florida's phosphate industry.  Of special interest are files from the Station and the Department of Chemical Engineering related to pollution in the Peace and Alafia Rivers.
(See 4619 and 5126)
 

Box 1

EIES4426 Phosphate fertilizer--Use of sulphate liquor for producing phosphate
    fertilizer, 1945
EIES4619 Phosphate Waste Disposal Project, 1946-1950

Box 2

EIES4619  (Con't)
CE4619 Phosphate Waste Disposal Project
EIES4918 Flourine containing minerals, recovery of  flourine compounds, 1949-1950
CE5007 Consolidation of phosphate slimes

Box 3

EIES5007 (Con't)
EIES5126 Biological survey of Peace River, 1951-1952

Subseries 26b
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects associated with Florida's leather industries, 1944-1948.
     1.5 linear ft.  (4 boxes)

 Subseries 26b consists primarily of records related to research on the production of tannin from Florida's scrub oak forests.  This research was stimulated by wartime shortages of leather tanning agents and contains data on the availabilty of scrub oak, its distribution, stand density, diameter ranges, and tannin content.  The project includes correspondence and plans related to bark removal machinery, correspondence with other experiment stations, correspondence with timber companies interested in the project, and manuscripts to several articles.  (See also 4409 in Subseries 26c.)   Also included in the subseries is a survey of hide brokers dealing with ways of improving and developing Florida's leather industry.
 

Box 1

EIES4404 Tannin from scrub oak and other sources, 1944-1948

Box 2

EIES4404  "       "

Box 3

CE4404 "       "

Box 4

EIES4423 Leather Development, 1944-1946

Subseries 26c
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's pulp and paper industries, 1944-1957
     .8 linear ft.  (2 boxes)
 

Box 1

EIES4409 Wood Utilization, 1944-1948
EIES4410 Industrial Waste Treatment Processes, 1944-1949
EIES4411 "            "
EIES4413 Stump removal project; Pulp for paper from fresh stumps, 1944-1949
CE4728 Pulp and Paper Research, 1947-1950

Box 2

CE4728 Pulp and Paper Research, 1950-1957
CE4812 Refining and Utilization of Tall Oil
EIES5023 Study of Kraft Mill Odors, 1950-1951

(See also 4425 in Subseries 26D)
 

Subseries 26d
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's limerock industries, 1943-1947.
     .4 linear ft.  (1 box)

     Subseries 26d contains records related to the extraction and utilization of Florida's limerock deposits in concrete mixtures, soil stabilizers, and other specialities.

CONTENTS
 

EIES4301 Limerock concrete, 1947-1951
EIES4302 Limerock Soil Stabilization, 1944-1949
     Road stabilization with limerock, 1945-1946
EIES4303 Limerock acceleration
EIES4407 Limerock test road, 1944-1948
EIES4425 Limerock specialty uses, 1945-1948
     Use of limerock in sulphate pulp mills, 1944-45
EIES4611 Limerock building material and specialty uses, 1945-1947

Subseries 26e
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to hurricane tracking and protection, 1944-1951.
     .2 linear ft.  (1 box)

     Subseries 26e contains files related to weather tracking research and high wind protection.  The weather tracking research was sponsored by the Department of Defense in the late 1940s.  Of special interest in this subseries is a radar photograph of a hurricane that was successfully tracked across the Florida peninsula.  Accompanying the photograph is correspondence related to this event, including a letter to Senator Claude Pepper explaining the implications of the research for Florida's protection against hurricanes and urging funds for several weather tracking stations.
 

EIES4419 Protection of small buildings against high velocity winds,
    1944-1950
EIES4511 Sferics (confidential project), 1945-1951
EIES4610 Radar project (confidential project), 1946-1950
EIES5012 High velocity winds and rain on building components, 1950-53
 

Subseries 26f
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's tung oil industry, 1944-1951.
     .4 linear ft.  (1 box)

EIES4420 Tung oil project:  drying and harvesting, 1944-1950
EIES4509 Drying of Tung Nuts, 1945-1946
EIES4519 Tung meal studies, 1945-1947
CE4519 "           "
EIES4607 Filtration of Tung Oil, 1946-1947
CE4607 "       "
EIES4709 Expression of tung meal, 1947-1950
EIES4920 Modification of tung oil, 1949-1950
CE4920 "          "
EIES5010 Mechanical harvester for tung nuts, 1950
 

Subseries 26g
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Records related to Florida's citrus industry, 1945-1949.
     .4 linear ft.  (1 box)

EIES4520 Frost damage devices, 1945-1947
EIES4605 Scale elimination and evaporation of citrus test water,
    1946-1951
EIES4615 Citrus juice concentrator, 1946-1947
EIES4711 Production of carbonated beverage from orange concentrate,
     1947-1948  (Canada Dry Bottling Company of Florida, Inc.)
CE4711 "            "
 

Subseries 26h
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to agricultural machinery, 1944-1948.
     .6 linear ft.  (2 boxes)

 Subseries 26h contains records related to the development of agricul-tural machinery by the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.  Most notable are the files related to a celery harvestor.  These include the notebooks of its creator, Ford L. Prescott, which contain photographs of the harvester and several prototypes as well as photographs of celery pickers in the fields of Chase & Company of Sanford, Florida.
 

EIES4412 Celery Harvester
EIES4714 Development of Agricultural Machinery, 1948-1953.  Includes
    notebooks of Ford L. Prescott

Subseries 26j
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
 Projects related to the University of Florida's sewage treatment
   facilities, 1947-1948.
 2 folders
 

EIES4713 Sewage Disposal Plant and Methods, 1947-1951
?                  Lake Alice Drainage Project.  Preliminary Report.  Department
                    of Civil Engineering.  January 15, 1948.  Includes maps and aerial
                    photographs.  (Could be part of 4713.)
 
Subseries 26k
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's natural sponge industry, 1955-1956.
     2 folders.

Project Nos. and Titles

EIES5514 Natural Sponges
EIES5527 Natural Sponges, Grade standards
 

Subseries 26l
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to red tide, 1948-1955.
     .2 linear ft.  (1 box)
 

Project Nos. and Titles

CE4819  Red Tide Studies, 1948-1949
EIES5307 Incidence and causes of marine blooms of the red tide type, 1952-1955

Subseries 26m
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Riparian rights, 1945.
     3 folders.

     Subseries 26m contains a chapter entitled "Riparian Rights" from a larger work entitled "The Greater Rivers and Harbors of Florida."  This work was undertaken as project 4501 by W. W. Fineren in 1945.

Subseries 26n
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's crude oil deposits, 1946-1948.
     3 folders.

     Subseries 26n contains the files of project 4618 entitled "Evaluation of Florida Crude Oil" taken from the offices of the Experiment Station and the Department of Chemical Engineering.  The latter includes the notebooks of Charles H. Edwards, who led the research.

Subseries 26p
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's water resources, 1946-1947.
     1 folder

     Subseries 26p contains the files of project 4616 entitled "Survey of the Water Supply System of Gainesville and the University of Florida."
 
Subseries 26q
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to coastal engineering, 1955.
     2 folders.

     Subseries 26q contains the files of projects 5525 and 5535  dealing with the construction of a wave tank at the University of Florida.

Subseries 26r
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida clays, 1947-1950.
     4 folders.
 

CE4732 Adsorptive properties of Florida clays
EIES4916 Lightweight aggregate concrete from Florida clays

Subseries 26s
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station.
     Projects related to Florida's peat resources, 1944-1947.
     3 folders.

     Subseries 26s contains files related to project 4424 from the office of the Experiment Station dealing with the extraction and possible utlilization of peat deposits in the Florida Everglades.
 
 
 
 

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