By Mary A. Sego
Title: James D. Hoffman papers, 1907-1922
Primary Creator: Hoffman, James D. (1868-1940)
Extent: 0.4 Cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Chronological
Subjects: Purdue University--Faculty
Forms of Material: Articles
Languages: English
James Hoffman graduated from Purdue University in 1890 with a BME, receiving the ME in 1893. He entered the graduate school at Cornell in 1894 and remained one year. Returning to Purdue, he taught practical mechanics and machine design until 1911, when he went to the University of Nebraska as head of the mechanical engineering department. In 1917 he returned to Purdue, serving as head of the Practical Mechanics Department.
James D. Hoffman, succeeded Michael Golden as head of Practical Mechanics. He was characterized by Dean A.A. Potter as "the salt of the earth." Hoffman was faced during much of his tenure with a shortage of funds for equipment and insufficient space for instruction to be carried on as it should be. One change he was able to make during his leadership was to decrease elementary exercises and prepare advanced courses that led in the direction of industrial engineering. He retired in 1938 and passed away August 14, 1940.
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 7 folders
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation: MSF 179, James D. Hoffman papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Hoffman, J. D. (1904). Elementary Machine Design, Part I. Lafayette, Indiana: Press of Burt-Terry-Wilson Company. [arranged for the students of the junior class, Purdue University, 2 paperback copies and one bound copy]
Hoffman, J. D. (1904). Elementary Machine Design, Part II. Lafayette, Indiana: Press of Burt-Terry-Wilson Company. [arranged for the students of the junior class, Purdue University, 2 copies]
Hoffman, James D. (1906). Engine and Boiler Design. Lafayette, Indiana: Press of Burt-Terry-Wilson Company. [arranged for the students of the senior class, Purdue University]
Hoffman, James D. (1908). Test Of Underground Conduit Containing Hot Water Piping. Reprinted from The Heating and Ventilating Magazine, October, pp. 21-22.
Hoffman, James D. (1908). Some Facts And A Few Theories Concerning The Operation Of A Central Station Hot Water Heating and Electrical Generating Plant. Reprinted from The Heating and Ventilating Magazine, October, pp. 1-6
Hoffman, James D.; Johnson, C. S. (1910). A Course Of Instruction in Engine And Boiler Design. Lafayette, Indiana: Press Of Burt-Haywood Company. [arranged for the senior class, Purdue University]
Hoffman, James D. (1912). Lecture published in Nebraska Blue Print [talk given to Nebraska alumni]
Hoffman, James D. (1913). Estimating Costs In Heating Residences. [talk given to Nebraska Dealers Association]
Hoffman, James D. (1913). Ventilation And Health [talk given to Nebraska Laundryman's Association]
Hoffman, James D. (1913). Ventilation - A Necessity. [lecture]
Hoffman, James D. (1913). Air Conditioning For Home And School. [lecture]
A Hydraulic Dynamometer, Hoffman, James D. Presented at the St. Louis meeting (May, 1896) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and forming part of Volume XVII of the Transactions.
The Student Of Mechanic Arts, An Apprentice, Hoffman, J. D. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, Bulletin 99, 1899, pp. 186-189.
The Teaching Of Elementary Machine Design, Hoffman, J. D. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, vol. XV, 1907, pp. 586-594. [3 copies]
Reasons Why the Science of Heating and Ventilating Engineering Should Be Observed, Hoffman, J. D. (Presented at the Summer Meeting, Niagara Falls, New York, 1908). There is no notation about which organization was holding the meeting.
A Study In Centralizing The Heat Supply, Hoffman, J. D. Read before the National District Heating Association, Held at Toledo, Ohio, June 1, 2, 3, 1910.
Outline of a Course of Instruction for Technical Schools With Questions and Problems, To Be Used In Connection With the Handbook for Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Hoffman, J. D. (1913). The publishers information given.
Hoffman, James D. (1914). Cleaning And Humidifying The Air We Breathe. The University of Nebraska Blue Print.
Hoffman, James D. (1914). Factory Ventilation. Note to the Metal Worker.
Hoffman, James D. (1914). Air Pressure Velocity Measuring Apparatus.
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Recent Progress In The Science Of Ventilating Buildings.
Hoffman, James D. (1915). The Religious Life Of The Colleges And Universities. [lecture before the Lincoln Ministerial Association]
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Some Modern Phases Of Heating And Ventilating.
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Student Loyalty And College Spirit.
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Our Socialabilities [talk given at Sigma Tau banquet, Lincoln, Nebraska]
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Problem of Ventilation [newspaper article addressed "to the editor of the State Journal."]
Hoffman, James D. (1915). The Real Road To Success. Bulletin of the N.D.H.A., October 20, 1915.
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Apparatus for the Study of Heat Radiation
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Mechanical Engineering.
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Points in the Selection of a Private Heating System for a Residence. [talk given before the Nebraska Engineering Society]
Hoffman, James D. (1915). Fundamentals in Heating and Ventilating.
Vacuum, Vacuo-Vapor And Atmospheric Heating Systems, Hoffman, James David. A paper presented at a meeting of the International Engineering Congress, 1915, in San Francisco, California, September 20-25, 1915.
The American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers Report of the committee appointed January, 1914, to prepare a set of minimum ventilation requirements for public and semi-public buildings which the Society can recommend for legislation.
Reasons for Failures of Heating Systems, Hoffman, J. D. Presented at the Semi-Annual Meeting of The American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Buffalo, New York, June, 1918, pp. 633-642.
Benefits Derived Through Co-operation: Address delivered by Professor J. D. Hoffman, of Purdue University, before Detroit's Affiliated Technical Societies, Michigan Architect and Engineer, 1922, pp. 27-29, 32.
Listing of Publications by J. D. Hoffman.
Hoffman, James D. (1916). Bulletin Mechanical Engineering.
Hoffman, James D. (1916). Systematic Heating and Ventilating.
Hoffman, James D. (1916). Heating a Conservatory and Greenhouse.
Hoffman, James D. (1916). Safety First in Ventilating.
Hoffman, James D. (1916). Address Before Members of the Society of Sigma Xi and Members Elect
Hoffman, James D. (1917). District Heating in the Central West, Proceedings N.D.H.A..
Hoffman, James D. (1917). Rail Impact Testing Device. Illustrated World, vol. 28, September, 1917, 77.
Hoffman, James D. (1917). Scientizing Acquaintanceship. [talk before the Lincoln Rotary Club, March, 1917]
Hoffman, James D. (1918). Furnace Heating Systems That Work. The Nebraska Ruralist, January 1, 1918.
Hoffman, James D. (1918). A Problem in the Adjustments of Steam Heating Rates. Bulletin N.D.H.A., January, 1918.
Hoffman, James D. (1918). Better Furnace Heating [talk before the National Warm Air Heating and Ventilating Association, June 12, 1918]
Hoffman, James D. (1918). A Line of Extension Work for the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers [talk repeated in modified form before the National Association of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, July, 1918.
