USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering records, 1913-1981, bulk 1919-1940

USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering records, 1913-1981, bulk 1919-1940 | USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering records | United States Department of Agriculture Division of Agricultural Engineering

1913-1981

The USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records contain photographs, glass negatives, and acetate negatives of images relating to agricultural engineering. Some of the subjects include irrigation, drainage, farm buildings, farm power and machinery, crops and crop conditioning, harvesting, care and handling of products, road construction, and farm electrification. Additionally, there are articles on agricultural engineering and farm electrification. The collection also contains speeches and papers by Arthur William Turner, who was assistant chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering in 1943. Also, there are materials collected by M. Conner Ahrens, assistant chief of the Farm Electrification Research Branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a proposed book on the history of farm electrification.

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agricultural engineering history

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USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records. Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) agricultural engineering research began in the Division of Irrigation Investigations in the Office of Experiment Stations in 1898. By 1915, the Division of Agricultural Engineering was created within the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, Bureau of Plant Industry. Agricultural engineering attained bureau status in 1931, and included the Divisions of Irrigation, Drainage and Soil Erosion Control, Mechanical Equipment, Structures, and Plans and Services. In 1939, the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering was created, followed in 1943 by the establishment of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering. The USDA reorganized in 1953, and the new Agricultural Engineering Research Branch became part of the Agricultural Research Service. In 1957, the branch became its own division with four branches, including Crop Production, Livestock Engineering and Farm Structures, Harvesting and Farm Processing, and Farm Electrification.

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Mixed Material; Monographic

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United States. Bureau of Agricultural Engineering.

En AGRIS desde: 2024-02-27

Fecha de modificación: 2025-04-22

Formato: MODS

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https://archivesspace.nal.usda.gov/repositories/4/resources/722/