Abstract Abraham Wolfe Davidson emigrated from Russia to the United States when he was a teenager. He studied art in both countries and became a sculptor, painter and art teacher. Davidson taught for 18 years at Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia. His sculpture can be found in numerous private and public collections, primarily in South Carolina and Georgia. Davidson had a long affiliation with Clemson College/University where he enrolled as a special student in the 1930s while...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a memoir written in 1982, a topic heading list for the memoir, two undated papers, and an undated photograph of one of the units that provided variable voltage power (AC and DC) for Clemson's Physics Department. The memoirs concentrate on the machines and apparatus he created and the scientific problems he solved as a boy and during his career at Clemson and the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Biographical details include his studies at Wofford College, meeting his...