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Susan Lytle, map librarian at
[Sterling C. Evans Library, worked
six weeks this summer at the
Jeography and Map Division of the
[Library of Congress in Alexandria,
[Va.
Lytle was one of 11 people from
[across the nation to work as a
[cooperative participant in the spe
cial map project at the Library of
[Congress. The map project has been
[held every summer for the past 28
[years.
She said her main job was to help
[other librarians in the Geography
[and Map Division, which has ap-
[proximately 3.5 million maps and
6,000 atlases.
Lytle said she learned different
;dures for obtaining reference
ssistance from the Geography and
dap Division, and liner points of in-
[terpreting Library of Congress clas
sification schedules for maps. She
said she also learned of new sources
(for acquiring maps.
In addition to working in the lib-
|rary, Lytle and the other partieip-
ants attended library seminars and
field trips in the Washington,
[D.C., area.
She said the participants were al
lowed to select maps and atlases that
were duplicates and have them sent
to their libraries.
Lytle selected 142 atlases, ap
proximately 150 soil survey maps of
Texas, and hundreds of maps to add
to Texas A&M University’s present
collection of 600,000 maps and
1,000 atlases.
Lytle graduated from Indiana
University and received a Master of
Library Science degree from the
University of Tennessee. She is cur
rently working on a master’s degree
in education at Texas A&M.
She has been map librarian at
Texas A&M since February. Her
main duties include helping faculty
with research, ordering maps and
atlases, assigning Library of Con
gress classification numbers to all
maps, and helping students and vis
itors with map information.
Texas A&M’s collection of maps
includes road maps, geology maps,
nautical maps and many others,
Lytle said. Some of the maps may
be checked out, she said.
The map library is located on the
fourth floor of Sterling C. Evans
Library.
Susan Lytle, map librarian at Sterling C. Evans Library, is
shown with one of the more than 100 atlases that she selected
from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of
Congress. Lytle was one of 11 people across the nation to
attend the special project at the Library of Congress for six
weeks this summer. She said the participants were allowed to
select duplicates of maps and atlases and have them sent to
their libraries. Battalion photo by Beth Brueker
upplies ‘windmill power
New energy alternative is wood
Early steel
mills found
in Africa
United Press International
PROVIDENCE, ILL — Brown
University researchers say their dis
covery in East Africa of complex
steel production dating back 1,500
years may compel a re-evaluation of
early technology and civilization on
a continent often thought primitive.
Tanzanians were producing steel
1,500 years ago with methods not
developed in Europe until the
mid-19th century, Professors Peter
Schmidt and D.H. Avery said Fri
day.
% ‘We have found a technological
process in the African Iron Age
which is exceedingly complex,
Schmidt said.
“To he able to say that a
technologically superior culture de
veloped in Africa more than 1,500
years ago overturns popular and
scholarly idea that technological
sophistication developed in Europe
but not in Africa, he said.
They said the level of technology
found in western Tanzania may in
clude other areas across the African
continent.
Tanzanian technicians were pro
ducing medium carbon steel in
pre-heated forced draft furnaces
more than 1,500 years ago, the sci
entists said.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The spinning
|top of childhood is being adapted
and married to a windmill at Uni
versity of Minnesota in an experi-
Iment to develop a practical alterna
tive energy source.
Researchers say the project also is
[expected to prov ide new knowledge
the mechanical potentials of
od, one of the most common and
[yet least researched products of na-
[tiire.
Onassis reduces
Jackie’s fortune,
author says
United Press International
NEW YORK — Aristotle Onassis,
angry at Jackie Onassis for her
high-spending ways, used his finan
cial cunning to cut his wife’s inheri
tance to less than 2 percent of what
he had agreed to in their marriage
contract, said Stephen Birmingham
in In's forthcoming book on the
/former first lady.
“l/pon Onassis death, Jackie con
fidently expected to receive an in
heritance of at least $125 million and
I perhaps as much as $250 million,
said Birmingham in his book, “Jae-
[queline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.’
Instead, at her husband’s request,
[she unwittingly signed away most of
jher inheritance promised in the
[couple’s famous 1968 marriage con-
|tract, he said.
The multi-millionaire Greek
shipping tycoon’s anger centered
mainly on Jackie’s freewheeling use
[ofhis fortune, Birmingham said.
In 1972, Onassis and his wife ar-
jgued over $200,000 she spent on
legal fees in a suit against photo
grapher Ron Galella who, she
claimed, constantly harassed her
and her children. Onassis advised
Jher in vain to ignore Galella, Bir-
jmingham said.
In 1973, while on a Mexican vaca-
[tion, Jackie insisted that Onassis
buy her a villa there, but he re
fused, Birmingham said.
“They argued and the argument
I continued bitterly on the private
plane that brought them home, he
said.
“Onassis was a wily man who had
not made his fortune by being sweet
to people, Birmingham said. Fol
lowing that scene on the plane from
i Acapulco, he set about systemati
cally to subvert the terms of the
| marriage contract, he said.
The- experiment is being carried
out by Profs. Arthur G. Erdman and
Darrel A. Frohrib and Thomas P.
Carlson and David L. Hagen of the
department of mechanical engineer
ing; and Prof. William L. Garrard of
the department of aerospace and
engineering and mechanics.
Deep in the bowels of the en
gineering building a pilot has been
built.
The “spinning top’’ is a flywheel
made of laminated Finnish birch,
weighing several hundred pounds.
It is encased in a near vacuum,
which reduces resistance drag and
keeps the top spinning far longer.
A shaft through the middle of the
flywheel is connected to a variable
speed drive shaft which would
power an electrical generator. As
envisoned by the designers, the
flywheel in practical use woidd be
kept in motion by a windmill.
Once up to top speed, explained
Erdman, the top could be kept
spinning and producing energy for a
week should the wind becalm the
windmill.
“A flywheel one meter in diame
ter,” he said, “would weigh several
tons. Once it is spinning at 7,000
revolutions per minute, we estimate
it could furnish enough energy for
an average family for a day.
“We feel the system has the pos
sibilities of being economically
competitive with other sources of al
ternative energy.’’
As an energy storage system, he
said, it has an advantage over bat
teries, for example, because it could
operate with few or no problems in
any kind of weather.
“Batteries, of course, have lim
ited life,” he said. “And they are
limited to the amount of energy
they can store at any one time. Bat
teries also are affected by tempera
tures, particularly the extreme cold
of this climate.”
The university research engineer,^
p,; ■ . ^ - j 4 s . < ? ‘
are working under several grants,
including a seed grant from the
Minnesota Energy Agency. The 3M
Co. and Lord Corp., Erie, Pa., have
assisted with adhesive and bonding
materials used in the project; and
Zero-Max Company of Minneapolis
has helped in development of vari
ous speed drive machinery.
The spinning flywheel top is built
of wood because of its strength and
its safety. If it were manufactured of
iron or another metal and it disin
tegrated, Frohrib said, metal shards
could cause considerable damage to
the vacuum chamber.
“The literature of wood technol
ogy lacks extensive research on the
mechanical properties of wood with
negligible moisture content, as
found under vacuum conditions, a
project paper said. “The strength of
wood increases with decreasing
thickness, probably due to reduc
tion of unequal stresses in the early
and late growth sections of wood.
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