IIHR Archive

Early IIHR Administration and Articles (1920-1940),

and Floyd Nagler – Biographical Information (1920-1933)

            This record group includes a miscellany of materials (publications describing the Hydraulics Laboratory, administrative papers, news releases, annual reports, etc.) from the Hydraulics Laboratory’s and IIHR’s earliest days. These are materials that do not fit into the larger “Early Research” record group. Also included are biographical materials on Floyd Nagler, founding director of IIHR.

            The record group consists of 1.5 archival boxes – one box of administration papers and articles, and half a box of Nagler materials (included in Box 1 of the “Early IIHR Research” record group).

Early IIHR Administration and Articles

• “The New Hydraulic Laboratory of the State University of Iowa and its Proposed Schedule for Research” (F. Nagler, Transit, 1921) Also talk with similar title presented by F. Nagler, 1920.
   

• Article on IIHR in A Descriptive Directory of Hydraulic Laboratories in USA (anonymous, published by Engineering Foundation, 1922)
   

• “The University Power Dam” (E.J. Karsten, Transit, 1925)

                         “Additional Facilities for Hydraulic Engineering” (K.E. Ristau, Transit, 1933)
 

• “The New Hydraulics Laboratory” (Dunlap, Transit, 1920)

                          “Facilities of IIHR are Being Doubled” (anonymous, The Highway Magazine, 1932)
 

• “Hydraulic Laboratory at the State University of Iowa” (F. Nagler, Hydraulic Laboratory Practice published by ASME, John Freeman ed., 1929)
   

• “Hydraulic Laboratory Research at the State University of Iowa” (S. Woodward, Scientific Monthly 31, 1930)
   

• Program for formation of IIHR, 1931
   

• Radio Interview Script on IIHR Research (F. Nagler, 1932)
   

• “Hydraulic Research at Iowa University” (F. Mavis, Engineering News Record, 1935)
   

• “Engineering at the University, Iowa City” (UI Publication #1126, 1940) Bulletin includes very good IIHR photographs.
   

• Publications on Use of Models. Folder includes:

“Development of Model Apparatus” (A.W. Carter, Transit, 1934)

“Modelmania” (C.J. Posey, ASCE Proceedings, 1987)

“Hydraulic Models at the State University of Iowa”(R. Brudenell, Transit, 1930)

“Miniature Niagara – State Fair Exhibit” (photo in Transit,1929)
 

• News Releases About IIHR Research on Various Topics (1935-1939)
   

• Office Memos; Laboratory Regulations; Operating Procedures; Budgets; Noteworthy Mixed Correspondence/Information (1920-1938)
   

• Annual Reports, Research Summaries (1921-1941)
   

• Course Listings, Student Lists (1936-1941)
   

• “An Investigation of the Transportation of Bed Load by Flowing Water” (F.T. Mavis, PhD Dissertation, 1935)

                          “Establishment of Centers of Specialized Research” (F.T. Mavis, Journal of
                    Engineering Education, 1936)
 

• “David LeRoy Yarnell, Obituary” (S. Woodward et al, ASCE Memoir, 1937?)

                          “Sherman Melville Woodward, A Biographical Sketch” (F. Simmonds, Transit, 1925)
 

• “Specifications for an Elementary Textbook in Hydraulics” (S. Woodward, unpublished, 1930)
   

• “Memorandum – Stream Gaging in Iowa” (R.G. Kasel, unpublished summary of IIHR & USGS Cooperative Efforts, 1935)
   

• “Contents of the Yarnell Memorial Library” (undated list)
   

• “Rerouting of Iowa River at City Park” (McLeod, newspaper article and  original photograph, notes, 1939)
   

• “A System for Filing Technical Literature” (E.W. Lane, Civil Engineering, 1936)

Floyd Nagler – Biographical Information

•        CVs, job & award information, obituaries, etc (1919 – 1933, and beyond)
   

•        Nagler family history (document from Nagler family)
   

•        Ph D dissertation, “Verification of the Bazin Weir Formula by Hydro-chemical Gaugings” (1917 and late ASCE publication)
   

•        Water wheel / Turbine interests, folder includes:

Turbine donation, Mississippi River Power Co, 1931

Water wheel donation, Greene Iowa, 1927

Mill stones in Hydraulics Laboratory entrance (Transit article, 1934)

•        Letter (to Jacob Crane – Iowa Conservation Plan), proposing to build fish bypass systems on Iowa Rivers, 1932
   

•        Baconian Club (materials from Nagler’s files)
   

•        Listings of potential research topics for IIHR students, 1920 – 1930s
   

•        Mathematical problems from lecture course (Undated)

(processed 6/2002)

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