Iowa State University--Alumni and alumnae
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Jay Brownlee Davidson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RS 9/7/11
Abstract
Jay Brownlee Davidson was born February 15, 1880 in Nebraska. He joined the faculty of Iowa State College (University) as Assistant Professor (1905-1907) in charge of agricultural engineering. Aside from several years spent teaching in California (1915-1919), Davidson spent the next 50 years at Iowa State as Professor (1907-1956) and Head (1907-1946) of the Department of Agricultural Engineering. Davidson became internationally renowned as an expert on agricultural mechanization and worked...
Dates:
1905-2005, undated