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Information on the American Water Works Association, the Grand Coulee Project, water policy, and stocks. Reports on California water problems. Built Morris Dam during his time as the Pasadena Water Department Chief Engineer and General Manager. Retired as General Manager and Chief Engineer of the Department of Water and Power for the city of Los Angeles in 1955.

Abstract This collection contains the papers of John Bell Rae, a historian of industry and tecchnology and one of the first members of the Harvey Mudd faculty. Besides teaching at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvey Mudd College, Rae authored seminal texts on the history of industry and performed research for engineering projects and committees such as the NASA Historical Advisory Committee and Harvard University’s Research Center for Entrepreneurial History. This collection...