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Collections and projects

History of the Newark Technical School and the Newark College of Engineering

Herman Estrin collection

NJIT Virtual Yearbook Project

Weston Museum

Weston Rare Book Room

Computerized Conferencing and Communication Center: Report Title List

NJIT ETD's: Electronic Theses & Dissertations Project

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For information about or access to any of these collections or projects, contact:

Matthew Brown, Digital Projects Librarian
973-596-5235
matthew.j.brown@njit.edu

Created Mar-22-2000; updated Oct-2-2003

 


The Weston Museum

The NJIT library has a number of instruments and devices from Edward Weston's Newark laboratory. Edward Weston was an rival of Thomas Edison in the early development of electricity. He was also an early contributor to the founding of the Newark Technical School--which eventually became NJIT. Weston Hall at NJIT is named for him and for his son--Edward Faraday Weston.

The museum is on the 3rd floor of the Van Houten Library, near the elevator.

Images from the plaque mounted in Weston Hall: Plaque

Slide show of items in the Weston Museum: Slide Show

Other links to information online about Edward Weston and the Weston Electrical Instrument Company:

Laboratory of Edward Weston (click to view larger image)
13 x 18 sepia-toned photograph of the interior of Weston's laboratory
Caption on original:
LABORATORY OF EDWARD WESTON,
107 ORANGE STREET, NEWARK, N.J.
PHYSICAL LABORATORY.
Original photo currently (March 2000) in Van Houten Library rare book room.
Maintained by Library. Date of last update: 05/30/2008 02:03:19.
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