History
The library is a component of the Cornell University Library. It was started with an endowment by Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., who was associated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1909 until his retirement as their chairman of the Board in 1962. Carpenter was a member of the Cornell mechanical engineering class of 1910 and also served Cornell as a member of its board of trustees. Since the late 1800s there were smaller holdings for civil engineering in Lincoln hall and for electrical engineering in Franklin Hall; mechanical engineering materials were kept in the offices of department chairs.
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