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Isaac and Isabelle Bechtel letter about Great Seattle Fire, June 24, 1889
No full textIn 1882 Isaac Kinsey Bechtel (1848-1890) arrived in the Puget Sound area and bought 129 acres around what is now Main Street in downtown Bellevue. He had left his wife, Isabella (Lind) Bechtel (1852-1938), and their children behind in Waterloo, Ontario, but in 1885 he was able to send money for them to join him. The cabin Mr. Bechtel built functioned as their home as well as Bellevue's first post office, and he served as postmaster from 1886 until his death four years later in a logging accident.
The letter pictured here was written by Isaac, who signed for himself and Isabelle, and includes an additional message at the end written in a different, unsigned hand, likely Isabelle's. The letter is addressed to Isaac's mother, sister, brother, and family. Although these individuals are not named in the letter, when it was written both of Isaac's parents, Joseph B. Bechtel (1824-1895) and Sarah (Miller) Bechtel (1828-1907), were alive and farming in an area largely populated by fellow Mennonites of German decent. Of Isaac's four brothers and seven sisters, only his youngest sibling, John M. Bechtel (1866-1935), and his niece, Melinda (Sitler) Lawton (1879-1942), appear to have been living at home at the time.
The letter was written shortly after the Great Seattle Fire on June 6, 1889 had destroyed about 25 city blocks, including the entire business district, four of the city's wharves, and the railroad terminals. Mr. Bechtel recounts how he had reached downtown Seattle about five hours after the fire first started, accompanied by his son, Herbert Amherst Bechtel (1873-1959), and five "camp men," probably from a logging camp on his land. The men witnessed citizens using a bucket brigade to save the last brick building standing, which housed the Post Office and Land Office. Mr. Bechtel continues his letter about three weeks after the fire and describes the city as "bussle [sic] and activity as brick masons, carpenters, painters, and laborers can get all the work they can do." He writes that there were already five or six one-story brick buildings built, and that about 300 tents were set up for conducting business.There is an imprint on the top left corner of the first page from Southworth, an American stationery company in business since 1839.
Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, "Bellevue Gets A Name, A Post Office And A School," June 16, 1983, pp. 94-95; and "Mrs. Bechtel, Early Bellevue Settler, Dies," June 17, 1938, p. 15.
Caption information source: "Bellevue - Thumbnail History," by Alan J. Stein, HistoryLink.org Essay 313.1 folded stationery; 8 x 10 in. + 1 envelope; 5.75 x 3.5 in
L'eau d'arquebusade de Bechtel : E. Wickersheimer, L'eau d'arquebusade de J. Chr. Bechtel, pharmacien à Rolle (1797) in Revue hist. Vaudoise, 1948
No full textL'eau d'arquebusade de Bechtel : E. Wickersheimer, L'eau d'arquebusade de J. Chr. Bechtel, pharmacien à Rolle (1797) in Revue hist. Vaudoise, 1948. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 37ᵉ année, n°123, 1949. p. 421
Boston Commons quilt by Mary Alice Peterson Larson
No full textImage of Boston Commonsquilt created in 1940 by Mary Alice Peterson Larson. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Karleen Bechtel as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994. Quilt pieces cut to strengthen exercise grandmother Larson\u27s broken wrist. Quilted Feb 92 by her daughters Ethel L. Noe Elaine L. Beer Granddaughter Karleen H. Bechtel granddaughter Kara Bechtel
L'eau d'arquebusade de Bechtel : E. Wickersheimer, L'eau d'arquebusade de J. Chr. Bechtel, pharmacien à Rolle (1797) in Revue hist. Vaudoise, 1948
No full textL'eau d'arquebusade de Bechtel : E. Wickersheimer, L'eau d'arquebusade de J. Chr. Bechtel, pharmacien à Rolle (1797) in Revue hist. Vaudoise, 1948. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 37ᵉ année, n°123, 1949. p. 421
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Development and Performance of Bechtel Nevada's Nine-Frame Camera System
No full textBechtel Nevada, Los Alamos Operations, has developed a high-speed, nine-frame camera system that records a sequence from a changing or dynamic scene. The system incorporates an electrostatic image tube with custom gating and deflection electrodes. The framing tube is shuttered with high-speed gating electronics, yielding frame rates of up to 5MHz. Dynamic scenes are lens-coupled to the camera, which contains a single photocathode gated on and off to control each exposure time. Deflection plates and drive electronics move the frames to different locations on the framing tube output. A single charge-coupled device (CCD) camera then records the phosphor image of all nine frames. This paper discusses setup techniques to optimize system performance. It examines two alternate philosophies for system configuration and respective performance results. We also present performance metrics for system evaluation, experimental results, and applications to four-frame cameras
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
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Environmental Solutions FY05: PNNL Contributions to Bechtel Hanford, Inc.
No full textPacific Northwest National Laboratory provided support to Bechtel Hanford, Inc., for their work to safely demolish nuclear facilities and clean up waste sites near the Columbia River. During FY05, PNNL screened a variety of technologies to solve difficult problems. The danger of lung-scarring beryllium becoming airborne during the demolition of a nuclear fuel rod fabrication plant was addressed. For Bechtel Hanford, PNNL researchers extensively screened technologies and supported field testing of selected options. Assisted by the Laboratory's information, Bechtel Hanford staff razed the 76,000-square-feet facility near the Columbia River with no release of airborne beryllium. Removing large tanks and other equipment containing highly radioactive material from the 107-N facility continued to present challenges. The facility housed the filtration equipment for N Reactor's fuel storage basin. In FY05, PNNL identified and reviewed retrieval technologies. This work built on the evaluation criteria PNNL staff developed in FY04. In support of Bechtel Hanford's work to remediate and close the 618-7 burial ground, PNNL researchers evaluated remote technologies to characterize the waste drums as they are retrieved. One objective is to identify any drums containing Zircaloy, a zirconium alloy that can catch on fire when exposed to certain conditions. To assist in safely retrieving, treating, and disposing of spent nuclear fuel decladding waste in the 116-C-3 tank, PNNL identified and reviewed waste characterization, retrieval, and treatment technologies. This information was used by Bechtel Hanford staff as part of their engineering study of the situation
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Sandia Corporation Report SAND79-7012
No full textAbstract: Bechtel National, Inc. has conducted a study of the requirement for, and a preliminary design of, a photovoltaic central station test facility
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