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The Norman P. Goss Papers

Kelvin Smith Library: Special Collections Research Center

(1923-1975)

Biography | Scope and Content | Boxlist

Restrictions: The Special Collections Research Center is open to any interested researcher upon presentation of a valid CASE ID or other valid official identification card. The Center is open to other researchers by appointment only.

Acquisition: This collection was the gift of Norman P. Goss to the Case Alumni Association in 1977, with the understanding that it would be added to the History of Science and Technology Collection at Case Institute of Technology. The collection was deposited in the Department of Special Collections.

Biography: Norman P. Goss (1906-1977)

Goss was a Cleveland area inventor and researcher born in 1906. He graduated Case Institute of Technology in 1925 and made significant contributions to the field of metals research, most notably in perfecting the Goss structure in 1935. He died in 1977.

Scope and Content Note

The collection is an important and extensive record of original research done by Norman P. Goss that led to patents for new processes in the manufacturing of silicon steel and continuous castings in the metals field. The collection is arranged in the following ten series:

Series : 1	1937-1975	Correspondence
Series : 2	1944-1974	Memoranda, Minutes
Series : 3	1933-1964	Working Files
Series : 4	1933-1968	Papers, Reports, Notes, Patents
Series : 5	1923-1966	Notebooks
Series : 6	1936-1962	Photographs
Series : 7	1956-1965	Photographic Negatives
Series : 8	undated	Technical Drawings

Boxlist

Box	Folder	Folder Content
Series I: Correspondence
1	1	Correspondence 1937-62
1	2	Correspondence 1963-65
1	3	Correspondence 1967-75 and undated
Series II: Memoranda, Minutes
1	4	Memoranda, minutes 1944-74
Series III: Working Files
1	5	Continuous Casting ca. 1939-59
1	6	Coatings ca. 1947-59 and undated
1	7	Continuous Casting, technical data
1	8	Dofasco Patent 1964
1	9	Osborn Process 1961-62
1	10	Tensors 1933-46
Series IV: Papers, Reports, Notes, Patents
1	11	Role of "Second Phase" in G.O.S.S. 3 different copies of this paper, 48 pages, typed, 34 pages handwritten, n.d. Factors which Improve G.O.S.S. 1 page, n.d. Requirements for Melting for G.O.S.S. 3.5 pages, n.d. Pertinent Information Concerning Processing G.O.S.S. 3 pages, n.d. Applied Heat Transmission. 6.5 pages, n.d. What Contributions Will the Rotary Reactor Process Make to the Field of Continuous Casting? 5 pages, 1968 The Production of High Grade Si-Steel in the Rotary Reactor. 8 pages, 1958 Method of Refining Steel in Rotary Reactor. claims filed by Goss, 28 pages, with notes, 1963
1	12	"...Goss texture..." untitled material, 28 pages, n.d. Continuous Steel Making in Rotary Reactor System. (with A.K. Blough) 29 pages, n.d. The Development of Grain Oriented Silicon Steel. 26 pages, reprint, ca. 1964 Proposal to Republic Steel Corporation. 5 pages, with appendices, 1961
1	13	Review of Rotary Reactor at Battelle. 3 pages, 1958 Information Which May Be Pertinent for Making of Pigiron from Ore District. 4 pages, 1967 Method for Production of Hot Metal from Ore, Coal, Coke and Lime. 5 pages, 1968 Cold Rolled Electrical Strip Steels. 39 pages, diagrams and additional notes, 1939 Treated Molten Metal. patent no. 2,866,703 filed May 28, 1956 Electrical Sheet and Method and Apparatus for its Manufacture & Test. patent no. 1,965,559 filed August 7, 1933
1	14	Report on the Continuous Casting of Steel. April 29, 1966
Series V: Notebooks
1	15	Strength of Materials. c. 1923 Least Squares. c. 1924
1	16	Electrodynamics. 1931
1	17	Mathematics. 1931
1	18	Dynamics. 1931
1	19	Electro-oscillations and Waves. 1931
1	20	Electrodynamics. 1931-32
1	21	Fourier Series. c. 1935
1	22	Research. 1936-37
1	23	untitled. 1956
1	24	Silicon Steel Research. 1961
1	25	Dofasco Patent. 1963-66
2	1	untitled. c. 1965
2	2	Dynamics. n.d.
2	3	Mathematics. n.d.
2	4	Maxima, Minima, and Rates. n.d.
2	5	Applications of Intigrtion (sic). n.d.
2	6	untitled. n.d.
Series VI: Photographs
2	7	Osborn Process illustrations Cold-rolled Electrical Strip Steels. illustrations 25th year A.S.M. (Goss, third from right) n.d. Goss holding Myra Van Horn seedling at Mayfield Heights Pine Brook Garden, July, 1962 Single stand four high (Steckel type) all pull cold rolling mill equipped with small work rolls n.d. C.M.P. Youngstown - torsion magnet used to develop G.O.S.S. c. 1936 Several miscellaneous, unidentified photos
Series V: Audio Materials
2	8	1 Audiograph, 2 recordings: a) Diamond - Desulferization; and b) Letter to Mr. Holder June 19, 1956, 1 reel recording tape, Mr. Black and Mr. Rodgers, Dofasco Patent Application Data. February 17, 1965
Series VI: Clippings
2	9	Clippings. c. 1934-64
Series VII: Photographic Negatives
3	-	Photographic negatives relating to Goss' work with continuous casting and silicon steel
4	-	Photographic negatives relating to Goss' work with continuous casting and silicon steel
Series VIII: Technical Drawings
Unprocessed, folded and stored flat at the end of the collection
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The Norman P. Goss Papers

(1923-1975)

Biography: Norman P. Goss (1906-1977)

Scope and Content Note

Boxlist

Series I: Correspondence

Series II: Memoranda, Minutes

Series III: Working Files

Series IV: Papers, Reports, Notes, Patents

Series V: Notebooks

Series VI: Photographs

Series V: Audio Materials

Series VI: Clippings

Series VII: Photographic Negatives

Series VIII: Technical Drawings

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