Colorado Agricultural College
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Louis G. Carpenter
Collection
Identifier: WLGC
Abstract
Louis G. Carpenter (1861-1935), irrigation engineer, was appointed professor and head of engineering and physics at the Colorado Agricultural College in 1888. He became director of the Colorado Experiment Station at that institution in 1899 and remained at the college until 1911. Carpenter initiated the first systematic instruction in irrigation engineering, consulted widely on irrigation and hydraulic construction projects, and was also consulted for his expertise in water law. The...
Dates:
1888-1919; Majority of material found within 1898-1910
Ralph L. Parshall Collection
Collection
Identifier: WRLP
Abstract
Ralph Parshall contributed significantly to the field of irrigation engineering with the development of a flow-measuring device that became commonly known as the Parshall flume and continues to be widely used. Materials in the collection include Parshall's patent on his "Venturi flume water stage recording instruments," awards that Parshall received, publications, copies of talks he presented on KOA radio in Denver, and a number of lantern slides depicting flumes, weirs, plans, and...
Dates:
1888-1992; Majority of material found within 1921-1961
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Cache la Poudre River (Colo.) 1
- Education, Higher -- Colorado -- Fort Collins 1
- Flumes 1
- Irrigation engineering -- Colorado 1
- Irrigation water -- Colorado -- Return flow 1
- Meteorology -- Observations -- Colorado 1
- Motion pictures (visual works) 1
- Parshall flumes 1
- Photographs 1
- Precipitation (Meteorology) -- Colorado -- Measurement 1
- San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.) 1
- Snow surveys 1
- South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.) 1
- Stream measurements -- Colorado 1
- Weirs 1 + ∧ less
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