Call Number:

046

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

8.3 linear feet (8 boxes)

Preferred Citation:

The R. H. Schallenberg Bottled Energy Research Files, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..

Date:

1991-1994 (inclusive)

Form:

Archival materials

Abstract:

This is a collection of files consisting of both original notes and photocopies of previously published materials assembled by Richard H. Schallenberg as an aid to him in his composition of the posthumously published 1982 book Bottled Energy: Electrical Engineering and the Evolution of Chemical Energy Storage.

Richard H. Schallenberg was born in Chicago, IL in June 1943. He graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic in 1965. After service in the Vietnam War he enrolled at Columbia University to study economic history. He began to teach at Yale University in 1970 then moved on to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University at Blacksburg. He died suddenly in 1980.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1069062~S6

This is an extensive research collection covering all aspects of electrical engineering from the early 1800s to the end of World War II. It consists of photocopies of individual newspaper and journal articles as well as sections of published monographs. There is a small amount of original Schallenberg material in the form of comments on his readings.

Organized into four series. Series 1.Binders; Series 2.Photocopies; Series 3.Research Series 4. Patents.