Guide to the Merrill S. Hugo Papers
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University Libraries.
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
October 2010
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the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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Overview
Call Number: SC0352
Creator:
Hugo, Merrill S.
Title: Merrill S. Hugo papers
Dates: 1901-1960
Bulk Dates: 1941-1960
Physical Description:
5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Information about Access
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original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
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Cite As
[identification of item], Merrill S. Hugo Papers (SC0352). Dept. of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Hugo, a 1924 engineering graduate of Stanford and a Major with the United States Army
Ordnance Department, joined the Stanford faculty in 1930 and served as director of the
Gage Laboratory, School of Engineering.
Scope and Contents
The materials consist of records the Gage Laboratory and the Stanford School of
Engineering. Included are correspondence, research notes, procedural manuals, tolerance
tables, technical reports, blueprints , schematics, transparencies, and diagrams.
Access Terms
Stanford University. Gage
Laboratory.
Stanford University. School of
Engineering--Faculty.
Engineering.
Ordnance.
Collection Contents
Box 1
History of Gage Laboratory
Scope and Content Note
Gage Lab correspondence during the 1940's; Report of Gage Meeting in
Philadelphia, 1943; History of Metrology; History of Gage Manufacturers;
Stanford Ordiance School: Bibliography of Light Metals & Alloys
Box 2
Operation of Laboratory
Scope and Content Note
Gage Laboratory procedures -Job Instruction: Planning Group Report; operation
of Gage Laboratory
Box 3
Professional Organizations/Education
Scope and Content Note
Gage Laboratory instructions (Hugo 's copy); Professional Engineering
Organization: Education committee; California Society of Professional Engineers
Box 4
Registration of Engineering Teachers
Scope and Content Note
California Society of Professional Engineers: correspondence, j ournals,
committees
Box 5
Gage Laboratory
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with Dept. of War: Office of Chief of Ordnance; inspection
forms; Gage Tolerance Tables; Gage Transparencies & Diagrams
Box 6
Gage Laboratory
Scope and Content Note
Blueprints & schematics; working Lab notes/tables/charts; research notes;
History of Stanford Engineering: report to C.D. Marx, 1901; tolerance table
Box 7
Stanford Engineering department
Scope and Content Note
Engineering professor's reprints; time schedules; newspaper/magazine clippi
ngs; project reports; 35mm black and white slides: Gage Laboratory
Box 8
Inspectors Manual for Macroetching, report no. 313.1/10 N.L. Read, 1941
Box 8
Directives of the Gage section; Industrial service Research &
Engineering Division Ordnance Deparbnent (M.S . Hugo)
Box 8
Directives of the Gage section; Industrial Service Researc..'1 &
Engineering Division Ordnance Deparbnent (edition differs from previous entry)
Box 8
Military Standard Gages, Snapf Plain, Adjustable MIL-STD-118 14 Jan~ry
1953
Box 8
Gage CK Worksheets] (1 black volume)
Box 8
Military Standard Gages, Plug, Plain, Cylindrical (GO) MIL-STD-110 25
January 1951
Box 8
Gage Laboratory No. GL-20 (laboratory notebook bound)
Box 8
Military standard Gages, Ring, Plain (GO) MIL-STD-112 25 January 1951
Box 8
Military Standard Gage Inspection MIL-STD-120 12 December 1950 (2
copies)
Box 8
Quality Control with DoAll Gages and Gage Instruments: a Handbook of
Scientific Inspection
Box 8
Manual Gage Inspection: prepared under the direction of the Chief of
Ordnance U. S. Army
Box 8
Ordnance Inspection Handbook on Gage Preliminary Edition September 1944
ORD-M608-5-SEC. 800
Box 8
section 800: Gage Inspection Methods, 1 July 1945 p.801-1205
