Finding aid for the Isay Balinkin papers
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Title: |
Isay Balinkin papers |
Repository: |
University of Cincinnati, Archives and Rare Books Library
Phone: 513-556-1959
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/arb.html
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Creator: |
Balinkin, Isay A. |
Dates: |
1950-1971 |
Quantity: |
42.5 linear feet (32 boxes) |
Abstract: |
Professional papers of former UC professor, Isay Balinkin. |
Identification: |
UA-07-05 |
Location: |
Archives and Rare Books Library |
Language: |
The records are in English |
Biography of Isay Balinkin
Dr. Isay Balinkin was known for his many contributions to scientific research in the field of color and for his innovative
teaching methods. He was born on September 14, 1900 in Odessa, Ukraine. He attended Commercial High School in Odessa. By
the summer of 1921, he had made his way to Constantinople as a political refugee. He found a job with the assistance of a
relief commission in a new electrical laboratory at Robert College. The dean, L.A. Scipio, took an interest in Balinkin and
helped him to enter the college where he studied Mechanical Engineering.
He came to the United States in 1925 and attended graduate school at the University of Cincinnati, receiving a master's degree
in physics in 1926 and his Ph.D. in 1929. Balinkin was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cincinnati
in 1929. He worked on the planning committee of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Starting in 1936, he also served as Research
Consultant for the Cambridge Tile Mfg. Co. Balinkin spent 9 months each year teaching and the other 3 conducting research
at the Cambridge Tile Manufacturing Co.
Balinkin was described as an enthusiastic teacher known for devising models and classroom experiments to demonstrate phenomena.
He also served as an advisor to seniors on their thesis projects.His research accomplishments included advancements in ceramic
tile technology and the study of color to ensure that variation in color between tiles be kept to a minimum. He made advances
in ceramic tile installation including patenting a new method of mounting ceramic tile to a mesh-like backing, the SETFAST
Ceramic Tile Mounting Method. Balinkin also gave popular lectures on "Color Phenomena," co-designed a mercury vapor lamp
to be used in laboratories, and patented a process to irradiate fertile queen bees which resulted in gentler bees that produced
more honey. He also designed a wave motion machine which demonstrated more than 30 forms of light, heat, and sound waves.
He designed a flexible crystal model.
Balikin was active professionally and received several awards. He was made an honorary member of the Phi Kappa social fraternity
in 1934. From 1926-1929, he was a Hanna Fellow and in 1940 he became a delegate for the American Ceramic Society to the Inter-Society
Color Council. From 1950-1952, he served as Chairman of the Inter-Society Color Council. In 1952, he represented the American
Ceramic Society at the 3rd International Ceramic Congress in Paris. He was a fellow of the Optical Society of America, a
member of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Inter-Society Color Council, the American Ceramic Society, the
British Ceramic Society and the International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Materials and Structures (RILEM).
Scope and Content
This collection contains material related to the professional career of Isay Balinkin, a professor at the University of Cincinnati
and important researcher in the field of color. The collection includes Balinkin's writings, research materials, biographical
information, interviews with him, miscellaneous correspondence, material from professional organizations in which he was involved
such as programs and correspondence, and some course materials and lectures.
Statement of Arrangement
The collection is arranged into binders by topic.
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
Subjects:
Color
Physicists
Organizations/Corporations:
University of Cincinnati - Faculty
Preferred Citation
The preferred form of citation for this collection is: Cite specific item as appropriate, Isay Balinkin papers, 1950-1971,
UA-07-05, Archives and Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Detailed Description of The Collection
Box 1 / Folder 1
Experiments in Advanced Mechanics, undated
Box 1 / Folder 2
Design Cenco, undated
Box 1 / Folder 3
National Bureau of Standards, undated
Box 1 / Folder 4
Advanced Laboratory Mechanics, undated
Box 1 / Folder 5
Luminous Discharge Lighting, undated
Box 1 / Folder 6
Wave Motion Machines, undated
Box 1 / Folder 7
Wave Motion, undated
Box 1 / Folder 8
Playing with Waves, undated
Box 1 / Folder 9
Patents, 1953
Box 1 / Folder 10
Writings by Balinkin, undated
Box 1 / Folder 11
Notes on Lectures given by Prof. L.T. More (taken by L. Strautmann), undated
Box 1 / Folder 12
Instructions for Balinkin-Dwight Filtergraph, undated
Box 2 / Folder 1
Shop Helps, undated
Box 2 / Folder 2
Shop Practices, undated
Box 2 / Folder 3
Godlove Award, 1965
Box 2 / Folder 4
the E of Y, undated
Box 2 / Folder 5
Vibrations of Bars, undated
Box 2 / Folder 6
Advanced Lab Mechanics, undated
Box 2 / Folder 7
Industrial Research Laboratories, undated
Box 2 / Folder 8
Color Elect Manu[al], undated
Box 2 / Folder 9
Interview with Prof. Balinkin (Broadcast Record), 1952
Box 2 / Folder 10
Interview with Dr Balinkin (Record), 1950
Box 2 / Folder 11
Record, undated
Box 2 / Folder 12
Record, undated
Box 3 / Folder 1
B.C. 2, undated
Box 3 / Folder 2
B.C. 4, undated
Box 3 / Folder 3
B.C. 5, undated
Box 3 / Folder 4
Publications, undated
Box 3 / Folder 5
Fusible Alloy Lamps, undated
Box 3 / Folder 6
Mercury Lamps, undated
Box 3 / Folder 7
Atomic Bomb Energy, undated
Box 3 / Folder 8
Lecture Outline, undated
Box 3 / Folder 9
Schools of Ceramics, undated
Box 3 / Folder 10
Miscellaneous Letters, Publications, undated
Box 4 / Folder 1
CENCO Demonstration Lectures, undated
Box 4 / Folder 2
Sixteenth Annual Award of the Technical and Scientific Societies Council, 1964
Box 4 / Folder 3
Lab Equipment, undated
Box 4 / Folder 4
Properties of Matter, undated
Box 4 / Folder 5
Module of Elasticity and of Ruptures of Tile Glazes, undated
Box 4 / Folder 6
Basic Colorimetry Reprints 1, undated
Box 4 / Folder 7
LMT mks cgs, undated
Box 4 / Folder 8
Physics Lab I, undated
Box 4 / Folder 9
Physics Lab II, undated
Box 4 / Folder 10
Basic Elements in Color Education, undated
Box 5 / Folder 1
ISCC Symposia, undated
Box 5 / Folder 2
Maurice Holland, undated
Box 5 / Folder 3
Color Talks, undated
Box 5 / Folder 4
Lighting Publications, undated
Box 5 / Folder 5
Color Aptitude Test, undated
Box 5 / Folder 6
IR, undated
Box 5 / Folder 7
Hunterlab, undated
Box 5 / Folder 8
DIN-Farbenkarte (color samples, in German), undated
Box 5 / Folder 9
Miscellaneous Electrical and Color Publications, undated
Box 6 / Folder 1
ISCC Standards for Colorimetry Problem 22, 1961
Box 6 / Folder 2
Basic Elements of Color Education, undated
Box 6 / Folder 3
ISCC Problems Committee, undated
Box 6 / Folder 4
ISCC Problems Committee, undated
Box 6 / Folder 5
Interchem, undated
Box 6 / Folder 6
Color Lecture Programs, undated
Box 6 / Folder 7
Counter Displays, undated
Box 6 / Folder 8
Art, undated
Box 6 / Folder 9
Miscellaneous Publications, undated
Box 7 / Folder 1
Color Samples, undated
Box 7 / Folder 2
Color in Design, undated
Box 7 / Folder 3
Color in Design, undated
Box 7 / Folder 4
Color in Design References, undated
Box 7 / Folder 5
Newspaper Clippings, undated
Box 7 / Folder 6
Notes on Physics Courses (taken by P.M. Banks), undated
Box 7 / Folder 7
Books, undated
Box 7 / Folder 8
Ingenuity, Imagination, Engineering, undated
Box 7 / Folder 9
Color, undated
Box 8 / Folder 1
OSA Uniform Color Scales, 1962
Box 8 / Folder 2
White, Gray, Black, undated
Box 8 / Folder 3
Color Systems, undated
Box 8 / Folder 4
Color Lectures Correspondence, undated
Box 8 / Folder 5
Light Sources, undated
Box 8 / Folder 6
Lecture Engagements, undated
Box 8 / Folder 7
Measuring Instruments, undated
Box 8 / Folder 8
Enhancement X-Ray Films, undated
Box 9 / Folder 1
Miscellaneous Correspondence, Publications, News clippings, undated
Box 9 / Folder 2
Spectrophotometry and Color Demonstrations, OSA, 1970
Box 9 / Folder 3
CIC, 1958
Box 9 / Folder 4
Color in Science, Art, and Industry, undated
Box 9 / Folder 5
Units, Measurements, Errors, undated
Box 9 / Folder 6
X-Rays, undated
Box 9 / Folder 7
Temperature and Heat, undated
Box 9 / Folder 8
Testing and Measuring, undated
Box 10 / Folder 1
Kurelka Munk, undated
Box 10 / Folder 2
Notes: Research on Exploding Solid and Liquid Conductors, 1926
Box 10 / Folder 3
Soil Mechanics Workshop, 1960
Box 10 / Folder 4
Miscellaneous Reports, Drawings, Samples, undated
Box 10 / Folder 5
Life Magazine, undated
Box 10 / Folder 6
French, undated
Box 10 / Folder 7
Miscellaneous Reports (Military) and Newsletters, undated
Box 10 / Folder 8
Color Education, undated
Box 10 / Folder 9
Physics Educational Materials, undated
Box 10 / Folder 10
Miscellaneous Newsletters, Correspondence, undated
Box 11 / Folder 1
Color in General, S.S. Stevens, undated
Box 11 / Folder 2
Inter-Society Color Council, undated
Box 11 / Folder 3
Skin Color Rendering, 1962
Box 11 / Folder 4
Color and Vision Reports (Military and Otherwise), undated
Box 11 / Folder 5
Physics for Architecture Students (Dwight), 1960
Box 11 / Folder 6
Instructions for Lecture Demonstrations, undated
Box 11 / Folder 7
Scope, undated
Box 11 / Folder 8
Miscellaneous Notebooks of Balinkin, undated
Box 11 / Folder 9
University and Research, undated
Box 11 / Folder 10
Magnetism: Magnetic Effects of Current, undated
Box 12 / Folder 1
5 Green Colors, undated
Box 12 / Folder 2
Electrostatics, undated
Box 12 / Folder 3
Radium and Nucleus, undated
Box 12 / Folder 4
Astronomy, Sky, undated
Box 12 / Folder 5
Forces and Energy, undated
Box 12 / Folder 6
Atoms and Molecules, undated
Box 12 / Folder 7
CENCO Drawings of Filtergraph, undated
Box 12 / Folder 8
Electrical Communication, undated
Box 12 / Folder 9
Illumination, undated
Box 12 / Folder 10
Science, undated
Box 12 / Folder 11
Sound, undated
Box 13 / Folder 1
Photo- and Thermo-Electricity, undated
Box 13 / Folder 2
Popular Science, undated
Box 13 / Folder 3
Humidity, undated
Box 13 / Folder 4
ICC (International Ceramic Congress), 1960
Box 13 / Folder 5
ICC, Vienna, 1956
Box 13 / Folder 6
From Abroad, 1955
Box 13 / Folder 7
From Abroad, T, 1955
Box 13 / Folder 8
Abroad, 1959
Box 13 / Folder 9
Abroad, 1961
Box 13 / Folder 10
Color Aptitude Test, undated
Box 14 / Folder 1
AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers), New York, 1959
Box 14 / Folder 2
APPT, New York, 1960
Box 14 / Folder 3
Europe, 1955
Box 14 / Folder 4
INSEA (International Society for Education through Art), Prague, 1966
Box 14 / Folder 5
ACS (American Ceramic Society) Meetings, undated
Box 14 / Folder 6
4th International Ceramic Congress, 1954
Box 14 / Folder 7
CIE (International Commission on Illumination), Zurich, 1955
Box 14 / Folder 8
CIE, Brussels, 1959
Box 14 / Folder 9
CIE, Vienna, 1963
Box 14 / Folder 10
Electronics, undated
Box 15 / Folder 1
UV Radiation, IR, undated
Box 15 / Folder 2
Men of Science, undated
Box 15 / Folder 3
Relativity, undated
Box 15 / Folder 4
US National Committee of the CIE, undated
Box 15 / Folder 5
CIBEC Industrial, undated
Box 15 / Folder 6
Course Materials, undated
Box 15 / Folder 7
LA Physics 3, undated
Box 15 / Folder 8
Photoelasticity, Two Parallel Plane Stresses, undated
Box 15 / Folder 9
W.H. Haupt, undated
Box 15 / Folder 10
Highlights of Physical Sciences, undated
Box 15 / Folder 11
Acoustics, undated
Box 16 / Folder 1
Notes, Formulas, Articles, undated
Box 16 / Folder 2
Photoelasticity, undated
Box 16 / Folder 3
Demonstration Experiments, undated
Box 16 / Folder 4
Photo-elasticity - Long Plates in Torsion, undated
Box 16 / Folder 5
Co-op Day, undated
Box 16 / Folder 6
Photo-elasticity 1, undated
Box 16 / Folder 7
Models of Crystals, undated
Box 16 / Folder 8
Material Testing, Robert College Laboratory, undated
Box 16 / Folder 9
Physical Bases of Sharpness, undated
Box 16 / Folder 10
Physics Lecture Notes, undated
Box 16 / Folder 11
Lemon & Ference Light, undated
Box 17 / Folder 1
UC College of Engineering Physics Laboratory Manual, undated
Box 17 / Folder 2
Discussion of Kirchoff's Laws, undated
Box 17 / Folder 3
Lemon & Ference Problems, undated
Box 17 / Folder 4
Lecture Materials and Notes, undated
Box 17 / Folder 5
Patents, undated
Box 17 / Folder 6
Photo-elasticity Notes, undated
Box 18 / Folder 1
Industrial Color Tolerances, undated
Box 18 / Folder 2
Nature of Light, undated
Box 18 / Folder 3
Colorimetry, undated
Box 18 / Folder 4
Color Specification, undated
Box 18 / Folder 5
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 18 / Folder 6
Inter-Society Color Council, undated
Box 18 / Folder 7
Color Science, undated
Box 18 / Folder 8
Color Harmony, undated
Box 18 / Folder 9
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 19 / Folder 1
Egg Sorting, UCLA, 1958
Box 18 / Folder 10
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 19 / Folder 1
Egg Sorting, UCLA, 1958
Box 19 / Folder 2
Solid Geometry in Color Space, undated
Box 19 / Folder 3
Color Systems, undated
Box 19 / Folder 4
IAT Fact Book, October 1969
Box 19 / Folder 5
CIE, Barcelona, 1971
Box 19 / Folder 6
Color Spectacular, undated
Box 19 / Folder 7
Art Education, undated
Box 19 / Folder 8
Color Standards, undated
Box 19 / Folder 9
Psychology, undated
Box 19 / Folder 10
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 20 / Folder 1
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 20 / Folder 2
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 20 / Folder 3
Spectrophotometry, undated
Box 20 / Folder 4
Color Consultants, undated
Box 20 / Folder 5
Color and Its Measurement, undated
Box 20 / Folder 6
Gloss, undated
Box 20 / Folder 7
Color Measurements, 1957
Box 20 / Folder 8
Precision of Measurement References, undated
Box 20 / Folder 9
Color Difference, undated
Box 21 / Folder 1
Inter-Laboratory Color Measurement Comparison, undated
Box 21 / Folder 2
Light and Color, undated
Box 21 / Folder 3
Color in Use, 1, undated
Box 21 / Folder 4
Color in Use, 2, undated
Box 21 / Folder 5
I-S Color Council Report, Color Terms, January 1949
Box 21 / Folder 6
I-S Color Council "Color Specification" Movie, undated
Box 21 / Folder 7
Quiz, undated
Box 21 / Folder 8
Ralph M. Evans, undated
Box 21 / Folder 9
General Information on Glaze Control and Color Measurement, undated
Box 21 / Folder 10
Color Coordination, undated
Box 21 / Folder 11
Colorimetry in the Service of Ceramic Technology, undated
Box 21 / Folder 12
I-S Color Council, undated
Box 22 / Folder 1
GE Recording Spectrophotometer, undated
Box 22 / Folder 2
Research Management, undated
Box 22 / Folder 3
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 22 / Folder 4
Optical Society of America, undated
Box 22 / Folder 5
Phosphorescence Reprints, undated
Box 22 / Folder 6
Fluorescence, Phosphorescence, undated
Box 22 / Folder 7
ICI Colorimetry, undated
Box 22 / Folder 8
Industrial Color Tolerances, undated
Box 22 / Folder 9
Penetrometer, undated
Box 23 / Folder 1
Precision of Color Measurement, undated
Box 23 / Folder 2
Art Education, undated
Box 23 / Folder 3
Small Color Differences, undated
Box 23 / Folder 4
Color, IBM, C.W. Carroll, undated
Box 23 / Folder 5
Color Difference Computation, undated
Box 23 / Folder 6
Reprints and Library, undated
Box 23 / Folder 7
Books, undated
Box 23 / Folder 8
Philosophy and Physics, undated
Box 23 / Folder 9
An Introduction to Color, undated
Box 24 / Folder 1
Demonstrations in Color, undated
Box 24 / Folder 2
I-S Color Council Newsletters, undated
Box 24 / Folder 3
Color Space, undated
Box 24 / Folder 4
Current Letters, undated
Box 24 / Folder 5
Correspondence, Miscellaneous and I-S Color Council, undated
Box 24 / Folder 6
ISCC Executive Committee, undated
Box 24 / Folder 7
Laser Popular Articles, undated
Box 24 / Folder 8
CIE and ISCC, 1967
Box 24 / Folder 9
Color in Architecture, undated
Box 25 / Folder 1
Annual Meetings ISCC, undated
Box 25 / Folder 2
Color Demonstrations, undated
Box 25 / Folder 3
Contrast Enhancement Articles, undated
Box 25 / Folder 4
Consumer Product Safety, undated
Box 25 / Folder 5
Foreign Letters, undated
Box 25 / Folder 6
Centre D'Information de la Couleur, undated
Box 25 / Folder 7
B Effect, 1962
Box 25 / Folder 8
Masers, Lasers Bell Lab, undated
Box 26 / Folder 1
Laser, undated
Box 26 / Folder 2
Laser Model, 1962
Box 26 / Folder 3
Phosphorescence X-Rays, undated
Box 26 / Folder 4
Lasers Manufacturers, undated
Box 26 / Folder 5
Optical Properties Phosphors, undated
Box 26 / Folder 6
Phosphorescence Students' Work, 1961
Box 26 / Folder 7
Phosphorescence, undated
Box 27 / Folder 1
Filtergraph, undated
Box 27 / Folder 2
Filters, undated
Box 27 / Folder 3
Filters, Sampes and Curves, undated
Box 27 / Folder 4
AORS Spectrophotometer, undated
Box 27 / Folder 5
Two Worlds of Color, or One, undated
Box 27 / Folder 6
Color Difference and Measurement, undated
Box 27 / Folder 7
Color Mixture, undated
Box 27 / Folder 8
Radiation Measuring Instruments, undated
Box 28 / Folder 1
Color Organization, undated
Box 28 / Folder 2
University of Cincinnati Department of Physics, undated
Box 28 / Folder 3
Department of Physics, undated
Box 28 / Folder 4
Inter-Society Color Council, OSA correspondence, undated
Box 28 / Folder 5
National Academy of Sciences, Metrology Division, 1968
Box 28 / Folder 6
National Academy of Sciences, Metrology Division, 1967
Box 28 / Folder 7
University of Cincinnati Physics Laboratory Manual, undated
Box 28 / Folder 8
American Association of Physics Teachers, undated
Box 28 / Folder 9
Scientific American reprints, undated
Box 28 / Folder 10
American Association of Physics Teachers, undated
Box 28 / Folder 11
Color Preferences, undated
Box 29 / Folder 1
OSA, University of Cincinnati correspondence, Carbon Monoxide, undated
Box 29 / Folder 2
ASA Color, undated
Box 29 / Folder 3
Spectroscopy, undated
Box 29 / Folder 4
Colorants, undated
Box 29 / Folder 5
Color Meters, undated
Box 29 / Folder 6
Technical and Scientific Societies Council of Cincinnati Award Nomination, Balinkin Biography, Publications, undated
Box 29 / Folder 7
ICI Color Terms, undated
Box 29 / Folder 8
Radiation Measuring Devices, undated
Box 29 / Folder 9
Basic Colorimetry, undated
Box 30 / Folder 1
CIE, Vienna, Miscellaneous Travel Brochures, undated
Box 30 / Folder 2
Y, undated
Box 30 / Folder 3
Human Eye, Workshop for Engineering Teachers, Color Photography, undated
Box 30 / Folder 4
Visual Perception, undated
Box 30 / Folder 5
Eye, undated
Box 30 / Folder 6
Color Vision, undated
Box 30 / Folder 7
Vision, undated
Box 30 / Folder 8
Color Computers, undated
Box 30 / Folder 9
Partners in Safety: Light, Vision, Color, undated
Box 31 / Folder 1
Association for Color Research, undated
Box 31 / Folder 2
Physics of Color, undated
Box 31 / Folder 3
Symposium on Education and Federal Laboratory-University Relationships, undated
Box 31 / Folder 4
ISCC Secretary, undated
Box 31 / Folder 5
Tasa Rosen, undated
Box 31 / Folder 6
OSA Committee on Uniform Color Scales, National Science Foundation, undated
Box 31 / Folder 7
Investigative Radiology, July 1972 - August 1972
Box 31 / Folder 8
Perception, undated
Box 31 / Folder 9
CIE, National Bureau of Standards, undated
Box 31 / Folder 10
Inter-Society Color Council, Comparative List of Color Terms, undated
Box 32 / Folder 1
CIE E-1.3.1, 1967
Box 32 / Folder 2
Sun, undated
Box 32 / Folder 3
CIE, 1967
Box 32 / Folder 4
Basic Science and Engineering, undated
Box 32 / Folder 5
A & A, undated
Box 32 / Folder 6
Course Syllabi and Assigned Problems, undated
Box 32 / Folder 7
Photography, undated
Box 32 / Folder 8
Universal Space Plotter, undated
Box 32 / Folder 9
Focus, undated
Box 32 / Folder 10
Shop and Laboratory (empty), undated
Box 33 / Folder 1
Color Phenomena, undated
Box 33 / Folder 2
Eastman Kodak Bibliography, Reprints, undated
Box 33 / Folder 3
Color 69, First International Color Congress, Sweden, June 1969
Box 33 / Folder 4
ISCC Minutes, undated
Box 33 / Folder 5
National Bureau of Standards, Metrology, undated
Box 33 / Folder 6
Publications by F. Allen, undated
Box 33 / Folder 7
Baseball Log, undated
Box 33 / Folder 8
Color Vision and Perception, undated
Box 33 / Folder 9
Basic and Applied Colorimetry Draft, undated
Box 34 / Folder 1
Color Engineering, undated
Box 34 / Folder 2
Color Engineering, undated
Box 34 / Folder 3
Teaching of Physics, undated
Box 34 / Folder 4
National Technical Conference of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Program, Papers, 1964
Box 34 / Folder 5
UC Research Council, undated
Box 34 / Folder 6
Dorothy Nickerson Correspondence, undated
Box 34 / Folder 7
AA Physics, 311, 201, undated