Charles A. Jones Notebook
Collection
Identifier: MS014
Charles A. Jones, a professor of textile engineering at Georgia Tech, maintained this 1904 laboratory notebook containing fabric swatches and their analyses.
(one half-sized document case)
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As a professor in textile engineering, Charles A. Jones experimented with different materials. The laboratory notebook contains swatches of fabric from these tests and their analyses from March of 1904.
Charles A. Jones was a professor of textile engineering and an alumnus of Georgia Tech. He was the department head of the A. French Textile School from 1933 to 1945 and taught for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1953. Professor Jones researched and cultivated flax, a cloth material made from rayon waste. He wrote several books on this topic. Born in Vinings, Georgia on November 16, 1882, he resided there until his death in 1969.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
Accession #1985.1004 (old number: 85-10-04). (Immediate provenance unknown.)
(one half-sized document case)
Yen M. Tang processed these papers in 2000.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository