Digitized Histories of Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteThe five volumes listed below can be opened directly by clicking on their titles. Additional information is also available about the books, their authors, and navigating the books' contents using special pdf features. The RPI histories include:
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (D.H. Jones & Co.: Troy, NY, 1855), Benjamin Franklin Greene. Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1886 (William H. Young: Troy, NY, 1887), Henry B. Nason. A Chapter in American Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1924 (Charles Scribner's Sons: NY, 1924), Ray Palmer Baker. History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1934 (John Wiley & Sons: NY, 1934, Third Edition), Palmer C. Ricketts. Education for a Technological Society: A Sesquicentennial History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY, 1968), Samuel Rezneck. Technical InformationAll five volumes were digitally converted by OCLC Preservation Resources in 2003. Over 1700 pages were scanned from paper originals. Text was captured at 1-bit, 300 dpi resolution to produce ITU Group IV compressed tiff files. Illustrations were captured at 8-bit, 300 dpi to create uncompressed tiffs. From the tiffs, pdf files with hidden text were created, and pdf bookmarks were manually added from the volumes' tables of contents, indexes, and lists of illustrations. Due to their large file sizes, each volume was divided into two or more sections to improve download time when delivered via the internet. CreditsDigital conversion: OCLC Preservation Resources |