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1. Edward Lindley Bowles papers, 1869-1990

   37,800 items. 108 containers plus 1 classified. 43.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   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.

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2. Irving Langmuir papers, 1871-1957

   32,000 items. 107 containers plus 4 oversize. 42.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Chemist. Correspondence, diaries, experimental notebooks, writings, printed matter, and miscellaneous material containing data that led to scientific developments such as the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the high vacuum power tube, atomic hydrogen welding, and screening smoke generators for the armed forces. Includes material on cloud seeding experiments and smoked bathythermograph records obtained at Lake George, N.Y. Also includes material relating to Langmuir’s student years.

3. Samuel C. Phillips papers, 1929-1990

   67,200 items. 174 containers plus 1 oversize and 1 classified. 49.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   United States Air Force officer, space agency official, intelligence agency director, and defense industry executive. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, family and personal papers, and photographs documenting Phillips's career in the United States Air Force where he specialized in ballistics and weapons research; as director of Project Apollo (U.S.), the lunar landing program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and as an executive with TRW Inc. and other defense contracting firms. Includes material on the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system, atomic weapons tests, Saturn Project (U.S.) (rocket development), the Superconducting Super Collider, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and other defense and aeronautical projects.

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4. Charles Herzfeld papers, 1892-2014

   84,400 items. 246 containers plus 2 classified and 4 oversize. 99.6 linear feet. 2,108 digital files (7.33 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Physicist and technology advisor. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, speeches, writings, PowerPoint presentations, photographs, and other papers in physical and digital formats relating to Herzfeld's career in government and business that focused on the development and use of science and technology. Materials in digital format also include videos and a sound recording.

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5. Curtis E. LeMay papers, 1918-1969

   131,550 items. 243 containers plus 14 classified and 4 oversize. 90 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   Aviator and U.S. Army and Air Force officer. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, teletype messages, flight orders, mission reports, strategic plans and operation reports, appointment calendars, maps, photographs, commissions, scrapbooks, and other papers chiefly concerning LeMay's career as an aviator and officer in the U.S. Army and Air Force and as a vice-presidential candidate in 1968.

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