The Ralph Keely Odor Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2023-012
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials belonging to Ralph Keely Odor (1895-1987), a former researcher and engineer at OAMC in 1932. The collection contains a biography of R.K. Odor as well ledgers and notebooks written by him. Additionally, copies of photographs, patent documents and engineering diagrams are included, presumably for contextual information included in the biography. Odor is renowned for his creation of "Vornado" propulsion and his exhibition of a Vornado Plane in the early 1930's. He patented the air-moving system in 1934 and it was approved in 1938. He filed an additional patent for an indoor air circulation system based on the same concept.
Dates
- 1930 - 2016
Extent
2 Linear feet (1 Record Storage Box and 1 Standard Document Box)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- The Ralph Keely Odor Collection #2023-012
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Oklahoma State University Archives Repository
Contact:
204 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater 74078-1071 USA
libscua@okstate.edu
204 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater 74078-1071 USA
libscua@okstate.edu