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Henry Augustus Rowland Papers, 1793-1970

July 23, 2014
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Inventor Name

Rowland, Henry Augustus

Repository

Johns Hopkins University
Special Collections
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-516-8335
http://www.library.jhu.edu/collections/specialcollections/

Physical Description

30 linear ft. (52 document boxes, 56 volumes)

Summary

Correspondence, research notebooks, lab notes, patents, lectures, writings, reprints, and financial material relating to Henry Rowland's work as a physicist and an entrepreneur. Rowland's student and teaching papers are strong in documenting the experimental processes of physics and engineering training in the late nineteenth century both in Europe and the United States. This includes material on the organization and suplying of the Physical Laboratory at Hopkins. His notebooks and lab data cover research on acoustics, diffraction gratings, electricity, electromagnetism, hydroelectric power, optics, and x-rays. His own research papers are supplemented by Rowland's vast (56 volume) reprint collection. Rowland's work evaluating machinery for the Niagra Falls hydroelectric project (1892-1901) is well-represented as are the records and research for his Rowland Multiplex Telegraph Company (1898-1905).

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