Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Irving Langmuir papers, 1871-1957 |
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Span Dates | 1871-1957 |
ID No. | MSS29413 |
Creator | Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957 |
Extent | 32,000 items |
Extent | 107 containers plus 4 oversize |
Extent | 42.6 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012160 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm77029413 |
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. |