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Show CSU Receives Exhibit Items To go on display when the new library is completed is a collection of scientific instruments instru-ments made and used at the Branch Normal School by John H. Tipton who was here from 1898-1902. Included in the collection col-lection are: a surveying transit, tran-sit, a telescope, a microscope, and a collection of slides in a 14-drawer cabinet also made by Mr. Tipton. The equipment was donated to the college library by Mr. Tipton's son, Jay Y. Tipton of Salt Lake City. Two interesting interest-ing items sent later in a letter let-ter are X-ray pictures taken by Mr. Tipton in 1899 with a Holtz machine and X-ray tube. Since Roentgen discovered X-rays X-rays in 1895, just four years earlier, these may be among the first such pictures taken, and certainly will be among the few preserved at that early ear-ly date. Mr. Tipton has also given the library several photo graphs that were found amonj his father's things which shov faculty groups and a classroom class-room during the years he was here. Also included in the gift is a brief diary of John H. Tipton and a few scattered notes from which he doubtless intended to write additional material in his journal. The writings show him to be a self-made man. He studied on his own at night alter farming, teaching school, acting as justice jus-tice of the peace out west of Salt Lake City, and passed examinations which allowed him to graduate from the University Un-iversity of Utah with a minimum min-imum amount of resident study. |