Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Found in 12 Collections and/or records:
Edward Lindley Bowles Papers
Inventor, engineer and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, manuscripts, speeches, transcripts of recorded recollections, reports, minutes, subject files, notes, legal documents, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Bowles's career as an engineer and consultant in private industry and in government, his association with research universities, and work relating to the securing and defense of patents.
Vannevar Bush Papers
Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. The collection relates primarily to Vannevar Bush's role as coordinator of the scientific community for defense efforts during and after World War II when he served as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and director of its successor, the Office of Scientific Research and Development, where he supervised the Manhattan Project and other programs.
Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics Records
Henry Aaron Hill Papers
Chemist. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, notes, reports, scientific papers, transcripts, writings, academic records, family papers, financial and business records, newspaper clippings, blueprints, plans, map, memorabilia, printed matter, and photographs documenting Hill's career in the chemical industry, activities in related organizations, service on governmental and education advisory boards, and his personal and family life.
Herbert T. Kalmus Papers
Chemical engineer, inventor, and businessman. Correspondence, diaries, writings including drafts of his memoir Mr. Technicolor, financial records, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Kalmus's business ventures and personal affairs.
Edward N. Lorenz Papers
Meteorologist and mathematician. Correspondence, articles, scientific papers, speeches, presentations, photographs, data and data visualizations in both physical and digital formats. Material in physical format also includes military records, subject files, and book files. Material in digital format also includes games and sound recordings. The collection documents Lorenz's activities as a meteorology professor and his discovery of deterministic chaos.
Daniel F. Margolies Papers
Nuremberg prosecutor and foreign policy advisor to the President's Science Advisory Committee. Reports, press releases, printed matter, memoranda, photographs, clippings, and other material pertaining chiefly to Margolies's work as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development and other organizations.
I. M. Pei Papers
Architect. Correspondence, planning files, biographical material, maps, blueprints, drawings, proposals, minutes, reports, scrapbooks, press releases, clippings, invitations, brochures, interviews, appointment calendars, travel records, certificates, awards, and photographs related to architectural activities, urban planning, and professional associations of I. M. Pei.
Henry S. Pritchett Papers
Astronomer, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Correspondence, travel diaries and autobiographical fragments, drafts and reprints of writings, speeches, essays, reports, Pritchett's book entitled What is Religion? (1906), and other papers relating to Pritchett's career in science and education.
Nathaniel Rochester Papers
Electrical engineer and computer designer. Correspondence, biographical material, data processing manuals, reports, oral history interviews, writings, photographs, certificates, and printed matter primarily documenting Rochester’s work with military radar at Sylvania Electric Products and his endeavors to design computers and computer programs while employed with the International Business Machines Corp.
Charles H. Townes Papers
Physicist, astrophysicist, and educator. Correspondence, computation notebooks, technical memoranda and notes, patents, teaching files, astronomical observations, grants and projects, subject files, legal files, speeches, writings, biographical material, awards, printed matter, photographs, digital files, microfilm, and other papers relating to Townes's career beginning in 1948.