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Call Number: SC0101
Creator:
Fuchs, H. O. (Henry Otten), 1907-
Title: H. O. Fuchs papers
Dates: 1950-1988
Physical Description:
16 Linear feet
Summary: Course notes for mechanical engineering undergraduate and
graduate classes; correspondence; case histories in engineering problems prepared by
Fuchs; records pertaining to the Engineering Case Program; research notes, articles, and
papers by Fuchs; and photographs.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Henry Fuchs, 1972 and 1977, and the Dept. of Engineering, 1991.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
H. O. Fuchs Papers (SC0101). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Fuchs, an expert on fatique in metals, taught mechanical engineering at Stanford
University from 1964 to 1973, when he became an Emeritus Professor. He was educated in
France and Germany, earning his Ph.D. in 1932 from the Technical University in
Karlsruhe, Germany. Before coming to Stanford, he was an engineer with General Motors
(1933-45) and president of Metal Improvement Company (1946-60), where he designed the
shot peening process. While at Stanford he directed the Engineering Case Program,
writing or supervising the production of more than 200 case studies. He died in
1989.
Course notes for mechanical engineering undergraduate and graduate classes;
correspondence; case histories in engineering problems prepared by Fuchs; records
pertaining to the Engineering Case Program; research notes, articles, and papers by
Fuchs; and photographs.
Almen, John O.
Fuchs, H. O. (Henry Otten), 1907-
Olley, M.
Pitzer, Kenneth S., (Kenneth Sanborn),
1914-1997
Stanford University. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
--Faculty.
Stanford University. Engineering Case
Program.
Engineering --Study and teaching.
Engineering design --Case studies.
Photoprints