Brown & Root, Inc.
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Builders: Herman and George R. Brown Book Research Files
Collection
Identifier: MS 0464
Abstract
Correspondence, oral histories, notes, newsclippings, reports, published materials, photographs and ephemera in this collection document the family and business lives of Houston entrepreneurs Herman and George R. Brown, providing the basis for author Christopher Castaneda and Joseph Pratt's book, Builders : Herman and George R. Brown
Dates:
1898 - 1989
Frank Briggs Mohole Project Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0401
Abstract:
This collection contains plans for and information about Project Mohole, a cooperative effort between the United States government and the scientific community to drill a hole through the outer crust of the earth to what is called the “Mohorovicic Discontinuity” or Moho, the boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle. Also included in this collection are magazine and news articles, correspondence, designs, and other information about the project. Also, Frank Brigg’s unpublished...
Dates:
1962-1966
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- Architecture 1
- Books 1
- Business 1
- Businessmen 1
- Calendars 1
- Clippings (books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Coal slurry pipelines -- Design and construction 1
- Concrete construction 1
- Construction industry 1
- Correspondence 1
- Dams -- Design and construction 1
- Diaries 1
- Education 1
- Environment 1
- History 1
- Mohorovicic discontinuity 1
- Oil and gas 1
- Oil fields -- Equipment and supplies 1
- Oral histories 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philanthropists 1
- Records (documents) 1
- Roads -- Design and construction 1
- Sketchbooks 1
- Texas 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- photographs 1 + ∧ less
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