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| Collection Overview | |||||||||
| Title: | Charles Harold Berry papers | ||||||||
| Dates: | 1879-1963 (bulk 1917-1963) | ||||||||
| Location: | 63/1 | ||||||||
| Call Number: | M102 | ||||||||
| Volume: | 2 cubic ft. (4 boxes) | ||||||||
| Scope and Content Note: | The Charles Harold Berry papers document Berry's academic and non-academic career; they include typed and hand-written lecture notes and class materials, notes and calculations, and papers and technical articles written by Berry about various topics in engineering. Berry assembled these curricular materials for use in teaching over the course of many years. The collection also includes reprints, pamphlets, and reports by other authors, representing engineering scholarship in steam power, hydraulics, and thermodynamics in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. | ||||||||
| Historical Abstract: | Charles Harold Berry (1889-1965) was a professor of mechanical engineering at Northeastern University from 1955-1964. He taught at Cornell University from 1913-1918 and at Harvard University from 1928-1955. His work focused on thermodynamics and the steam power industry. He was also a technical engineer of power plants for the Detroit Edison Company and associate editor of Power magazine. | ||||||||
| Arrangement: | Arranged in one alphabetical sequence | ||||||||
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| Restrictions: | The collection is unrestricted. | ||||||||
| Related Materials: |
Harvard University Archives also holds Charles H. Berry papers from 1928-1945. They were donated in 1954. |
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| Processor: | Finding aid prepared by Jeanine Rees, July 2004 | ||||||||
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Historical Note |
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Charles Harold Berry was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1889. He graduated from Boys High School of Brooklyn in 1907 and went on to study at the Pratt Institute, a manual training school in New York. He received his B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1912. Deciding to teach engineering in China as a missionary, Berry registered at Auburn Seminary, but after a year he changed his plans and returned to Cornell as a graduate student and teaching assistant in engineering. He received his Master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1916 (the most advanced degree then obtainable in American engineering schools) and was an instructor and assistant professor of heat and power engineering at Cornell (Sibley College) from 1913 to 1918. In 1918 Berry was a Naval ordnance inspector for the Ordnance Inspection Department of the U.S. government, and from 1919-1925 he was technical engineer of Cornell's power plant and assistant to the chief engineer. Also during that time period he was technical engineer of power plants at the Detroit Edison Company. From 1925-1929 he was associate editor of the magazine Power. In 1928 he was appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard and in 1935 assumed the Gordon McKay chair, which he occupied until his retirement in 1955. He donated some of his papers (1928-1945) to Harvard in 1954. Berry joined the Northeastern University Department of Engineering faculty in 1955 and remained there until 1964. Berry was the author of some 55 articles on technical phases of the steam power industry, and in 1954 he wrote the book Flow and Fan. He also prepared several extensive class notebooks on thermodynamics. As a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he was active on its Power Test Codes Committee, and a member and chairman (1931-1933) of the Boston section. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1931) in mathematics and physical sciences, a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, and served on the Heat Panel of the United States Bureau of Standards. Berry was also a member of the Harvard Club of Boston, the Harvard Musical Association, the Harvard Engineering Society, and the New York and Massachusetts Professional Engineers societies. He belonged to Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi and was an honorary member of Pi Tau Sigma. Berry died in 1965.
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| Chronology | |||||||||
| 1889 | Born in Brooklyn, NY | ||||||||
| 1912 | Receives B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University | ||||||||
| 1913 | Begins teaching at Cornell University | ||||||||
| 1916 | Receives M.M.E. from Cornell University | ||||||||
| 1918 | Works as ordnance inspector for the Ordnance Inspection Department | ||||||||
| 1919-1925 | Employed as technical engineer and assistant to the chief engineer of Cornell's power plant and is Technical Engineer of Power Plants at the Detroit Edison Co. | ||||||||
| 1925-1929 | Associate Editor of Power magazine | ||||||||
| 1928 | Becomes a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University | ||||||||
| 1931 | Becomes a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (mathematics and physical sciences); becomes chairman of the Boston Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers until 1933 | ||||||||
| 1935 | Assumes Gordon McKay chair, Harvard University | ||||||||
| 1954 | Donates papers (1928-1945) to Harvard; Flow and Fan published | ||||||||
| 1955 | Retires from Harvard; joins Northeastern University engineering faculty | ||||||||
| 1964 | Leaves Northeastern faculty | ||||||||
| 1965 | Dies | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
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Obituary. Belmont Citizen, Belmont, Mass. March 19, 1965. Harvard University Gazette, May 7, 1966. Report of the President of Harvard College, Harvard University, (1964-1965). Science, 73:1900 (May 29, 1931). |
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| Box | Title | Date | |||||||
| 1 | Advertising and Instructional booklets | n.d., 1894 | |||||||
| Class Materials: | |||||||||
| 1 | General (2 folders) | 1918, ca.1930-1963 | |||||||
| Engineering 150: | |||||||||
| 1 | "The Flow of Fluid Through a Rotating Impeller" | 1938, 1945 | |||||||
| 1 | "Problems" | ca.1932-1941 | |||||||
| 1 | Engineering 237 | ca.1941-1953 | |||||||
| 1 | Engineering Mathematics (2 folders) | 1934-1935 | |||||||
| 1 | Heat and Elementary Thermodynamics | 1939 | |||||||
| 1 | Heat Engineering | ca.1957-1963 | |||||||
| 1 | Implied Differentiation | ca.1944-1952 | |||||||
| 1 | Mechanics Problems | ca.1909 | |||||||
| Thermodynamics: | |||||||||
| 1 | "Lectures on Elementary Thermodynamics" (3 folders) | 1917-1918 | |||||||
| 1 | "Lectures in the Theory of Technical Thermodynamics" (6 folders) | 1917-1918 | |||||||
| "Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes" | 1951 | ||||||||
| Notes and Calculations: | |||||||||
| 1 | Chart Guide Negative and Original | n.d. | |||||||
| 1 | "Criteria of Stable Equilibrium" | c.1950 | |||||||
| 1 | Enthalpy-Quality Chart | 1954 | |||||||
| 1 | "The Entropy Concept" | 1925 | |||||||
| 1 | Entropy, Jet Velocity from an Ideal Nozzle | 1931 | |||||||
| 1 | Gibson's Combined Taper and Abrupt Expansion | ca.1952 | |||||||
| 1 | Notebook | ca.1879 | |||||||
| Reprints: | |||||||||
| 1-2 | General (13 folders) | n.d., 1884-1954 | |||||||
| 2 | Annotated | ca. 1893, 1954 | |||||||
| Writings by Berry: | |||||||||
| 2 | "Alinement Charts" | 1918 | |||||||
| 2 | "Availability" | 1954 | |||||||
| 2-3 | "The Beheimer Jet Pump" (4 folders) | 1937, 1947 | |||||||
| 3 | "Combustion" (4 folders) | 1919, 1943 | |||||||
| 3 | "Combustion Computations" | 1920, 1922 | |||||||
| 3 | "The Constant a in the Definition of Absolute Temperature" | n.d., 1937 | |||||||
| 3-4 | "Gasses and Gas Mixtures" (3 folders) | 1943 | |||||||
| 4 | "Graphical Representations of the Thermal Properties of Water" | 1918 | |||||||
| 4 | "Increase in the Entropy of a System as Related to Increase in Available Energy" | 1936 | |||||||
| 4 | "Note on Trevor, the General Theory of Thermodynamics" | 1933 | |||||||
| 4 | "Sketching" | 1943 | |||||||
| 4 | "The Specific Total-Heat of Saturated and Supersaturated Steam at Low Pressures" | 1923 | |||||||
| 4 | "Use of Steam Tables and Steam Charts" | 1954-1961 | |||||||