This collection contains full-text theses written by students of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), from 1876 to 1958 as part of the professional degree requirement. Some of these early works are handwritten and are being transcribed as a service to users and in order to enhance their discoverability.

Degrees were awarded in Ceramic Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, and Mining Engineering

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Theses from 1958

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Structural analysis by minimum strain energy methods, John B. Heagler

Theses from 1956

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Sanitary engineering and the small college, John William Clark Jr.

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Subsurface geology of the Mississippi embayment of southeast Missouri, John Gustave Grohskopf

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Design and development of cantilevered flexural pivots for use in self-leveling surveying instruments, Rolland Lee Hardy

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A study of gas porosity in aluminum casting alloys using radioactive hydrogen as a tracer, Osborne Milton

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Calcination of Missouri flint, burley and diaspore clays in a rotary kiln, Richard Addison Parker

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The effect of today's residential electric consumer on the planning, design, and operation of electrical distribution systems, James Wilbur Stephens

Theses from 1955

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The properties of cold rolled - stress relief annealed 70-30 cartridge brass, Robert F. Hartmann

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Aspects of quality control in foreign manufacturing operations, Erich Rolaff

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The experimental fabrication of titanium magazines for 3 inch 50 caliber twin and single gun mounts, John Marshall Thorp

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Naval shipyard workload distribution, Leonard Charles Wolff

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Design of a subsonic wind tunnel electrical system, William A. Wundrack

Theses from 1954

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Design of a precast concrete deck girder highway bridge, Robert V. Gevecker

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Solution of some chemical plant problems associated with the manufacture of insecticides, Lawrence Ralph Hinken

Theses from 1953

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The preparation of zirconium powder, Herbert S. Kalish

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Organization and execution of a major industrial electrification project, Robert F. McCaw

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Adaptation of diesel rubber-tired loading equipment to a bedded fluorspar mining problem, Robert Gill Montgomery

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Metallurgical pulp mill processing for the White Pine Copper Company Project, White Pine, Michigan, Steve Theodorides

Theses from 1952

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Marcasite from the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc area as a source of sulphur, Carl R. Christiansen

Theses from 1951

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Cellulose pellets, John J. O'Neill Jr.

Theses from 1950

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An application of skew frequency curves to river stages, Vernon A. C. Gevecker

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Development, application and operating results of the center peripheral discharge rod mill, David Porter Hale

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Field resolution tests with the Metrogon lens, Robert Greig Livingston

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Experimental studies of the effect of moisture on strength of mine roof-shales, Rolf W. Roley

Theses from 1949

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Research investigation of seepage control for dams and levees, Robert Raymond Brookshire

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Recommended procedure for the computation of rights of way, Leon Hershkowitz

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Study of oil well squeeze cementing operations, Arthur Wellesley Walker

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Caving procedure at the Crestmore Limestone Mine of the Riverside Cement Company, Riverside County, Calif., Randall Helt Wightman

Theses from 1948

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Standardization of no-passing zone pavement markings, Glen Nickolas Hackmann

Theses from 1945

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The examination and treatment of industrial magnesium foundry wastes, Oden Cass Garst

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A technique for making torsion balance surveys of inundated areas, Karl Frederick Hasselmann

Theses from 1944

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The combustion of phosphorus, Erwin Charles Hoeman

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Geological reconnaissance of the Coldwater River, Mississippi, Pinckney Ronald Mabrey

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Design of a submergible seadrome light--universal type--suitable for military use in all areas and for transportation by aircraft, Frederick Marion Mueller

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Drainage as a factor in the development and operation of a mine, Peter Paul Ribotto

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The use of carbon dioxide for dislodging coal in mines, Durward Rice Schooler

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Floods of May 1943 in Missouri, John August Short

Theses from 1943

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Missouri super duty refractories and their probable application for blast furnace linings, Charles Alfred Freeman

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A study of the pollution of the Meramec River, William Quentin Kehr

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Operations of the Colquiri tin mine, Cia. Minera de Oruro. Colquiri, Bolivia, Oscar David Niedermeyer

Theses from 1942

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Research investigation of organized drainage districts in Mississippi, Lee Dorsett Dumm

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Subsurface pressure regulation of high pressure condensate wells, John Oscar Farmer

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Applicability of hydraulic drives to oil-well pumping, James Francis McDonald

Theses from 1941

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The electrolytic separation of copper, nickel and precious metals from copper-nickel matte, Oden Cass Garst

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The chemical engineering aspects of the Saint Louis smoke problem, George Augustus Hale

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Coal mine safety engineering, Charles F. Herbert

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Some causes for porosity and leakage in non-ferrous castings, Alfred H. Hesse

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The scope of functions delegated to the engineering department of a typical, progressive metal mine, Alvin William Knoerr

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Dewatering & rehabilitating the Oronogo-Webb City mining area, Robert Knox Stroup

Theses from 1940

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A preliminary report on the placer gold deposits of the Rio Acandi Seco, Choco, Republic of Colombia, South America and a possible method of their exploitation., Emmett Lee Arnold

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Essentials of rock drill design, Lister Merriken Cummings

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The application of fluid level measurements to oil wells in Kansas, Charles Calvert Rodd

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The Clark National Forest of Missouri, Walter A. Werner

Theses from 1939

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Construction of a concentrating plant in the Waco area of the Tri-State District, William Henry Backer

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The management of mobile loading units in mines working in number V and VI seams of Illinois and Indiana, Kirk Vern Cammack

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Organization of geophysical parties for foreign exploration, Charles Howard Dresbach

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Vocational training of high school students in electricity, Harry Fredrick Kirkpatrick

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Malaria control engineering on the Pickwick Reservoir, Cornelius Wolfram Kruse

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Reopening an abandoned Tri-State Zinc Mine - Waco, Missouri, Edgar Carroll Long

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Some effects of geology on the relation between rainfall and run-off, James Smythe Reger

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Rural distribution line protection, William Henry Rollman

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The design and equipment of a model coal mine for the Union Pacific Coal Company, Superior, Wyoming, William Thomas Sharp

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The construction of cofferdams Dam No. 26, Alton, Illinois, Arthur James Williams

Theses from 1938

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Conveyor mining in the thin vein coal fields at Excelsior, Arkansas, Bernard Degen Boyd

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Hydrography of the larger springs of the Ozark region of Missouri, Warwick Lewis Doll

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The Latouche mining method as used at the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine, Willard Alexander Gallemore

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An approach to county planning - Miller County, Frederick William Hurd

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Mercury in the Terlingua District of Texas, William Woodhouse Kay

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The foundations of Lock and Dam no. 26 - Alton, Illinois, John Joseph Livingston

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Superstructure costs of short span self-anchored suspension bridges, David J. Peery

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How South-West Wisconsin tailing piles can be worked at a profit, Gerald Henry Pett

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Copper mining in South America, Charles Kenneth Rose

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Application of small-scale, movable-bed river models to channel improvement studies of the Middle Mississippi River, Eugene H. Woodman

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Sinking and equipping inclined shafts of more than 60 degree dip, Wilford Stillman Wright

Theses from 1937

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Design and construction of ponds and small reservoirs, Harry Franklin Bossert

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The Express Highway through the city of St. Louis, Fulton Hord Campbell

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Development and operation of the Universal Coal Mine, Clinton, Indiana, Horace Herbert Clark

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Manufacture and application of rubber belting, Lynn Harbison

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Highway bridges, design and cost, John Edward Kirkham

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Line and grade control of the subaqueous Midtown Hudson Tunnel, Lauren Preston Tuttle

Theses from 1936

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The problems of the Silver Dyke Mine, Dale Irwin Hayes

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A treatise on the use of insulating refractory brick in malleable annealing ovens, James Joseph Offutt

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Drilling for placer deposits of gold and platinum in the jungles of Colombia, Theodore Owen Seiberling

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Small scale mining possibilities in southeast Missouri, William Walbridge Weigel

Theses from 1935

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A study of Missouri springs, Harry Cloyd Bolon

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Sherardizing as applied to stampings from light gauge metals, Matthew Patrick Brazill

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Return flow study of the North Platte River, E. W. Carlton

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Tax depletion problems of the Tri-State District, Glenn A. Dooley

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The use of activated alumina for reclaiming and reconditioning turbine, transformer and circuit breaker oils, Thomas Odie English

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Dedusting and preparation of screenings, Erwin Gammeter

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Water resources of Iowa, 1873-1932, Rudolph Gustav Kasel

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The U.S.G.S. topographic map: Its value and method of construction, Daniel Kennedy

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Commercial mineral waters of north-central Texas, Shirley Alfred Lynch

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A study in the production of calendered linoleum, Harry Simanton Pence

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Personnel relations, James Kneeland Richardson

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U.S. Forest Service acquisition surveys in the Ozark region of Missouri, Booker Hall Rucker

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Comparison of various types of road surfacing, Charles Cyrus Tevis

Theses from 1934

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Efficient management of highway projects under state administration, from the point of view of the project or resident engineer, Jean Paul Bryan

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Fuller's earth in Southeast Missouri, Willard Farrar

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A survey of a sanitary sewer system with findings and recommendations, Warren Roy Gettler