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Subject Source: Itoamc

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

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Edward Goodrich Acheson Papers

Identifier: MSS49684
Abstract

Electrochemist, engineer, and inventor. Correspondence, diaries, biographical material, financial papers, laboratory notebooks relating to experiments and inventions, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to Acheson's scientific work.

Dates 1872-1968; Majority of material found within 1899-1930
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William A. H. Allen Papers

Identifier: MSS10538
Abstract

Naval officer and engineer. Journals with photographs, sketches, and illustrations describing Allen's activities while serving in the United States Navy during the Civil War, subsequently on ships in the Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, and at stations on the east and west coasts of the United States and Europe.

Dates 1863-1884
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John J. Bayer Papers

Identifier: MSS84701
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Naval officer, engineer, and explorer. Diaries, general correspondence, autographs, photograph, and newspaper clippings documenting Bayer’s service as a member of the scientific corps on the City of New York (flagship) during the first Byrd Antarctic exploring expedition, 1928-1930.

Dates 1928-1956; Majority of material found within ( 1928-1938)
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G. T. Beauregard Papers

Identifier: MSS12203
Abstract United States and Confederate Army officer, engineer, railroad executive, and public official. Correspondence, scrapbooks, and military papers, including letterbooks, headquarters records, telegrams and dispatches, orders, endorsements, and rosters. The bulk of the papers, 1861-1865, relate primarily to Beauregard's career as a general in the Confederate Army, especially at Fort Sumter and Charleston, South Carolina; Manassas and Petersburg, Virginia; Shiloh, Tennessee; Corinth, Mississippi;...
Dates 1844-1883; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1865)
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Lloyd V. Berkner Papers

Identifier: MSS54403
Abstract

Physicist, engineer, and administrator. Correspondence, speeches, biographical material, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Berkner's career as an engineer and physicist and to the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958.

Dates 1928-1967; Majority of material found within 1946-1967
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Otto Sternoff Beyer Papers

Identifier: MSS12633
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Engineer, economist, and labor consultant. Correspondence, speech and article file, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Beyer's career as an engineer and economist in industry and government.

Dates 1905-1951; Majority of material found within 1929-1941
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Edward Lindley Bowles Papers

Identifier: MSS67993
Abstract

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.

Dates 1869-1990; Majority of material found within 1920-1982
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Ray Eber Brown Papers

Identifier: MSS14100
Abstract

Naval architect and engineer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, notebooks, subject files, reports, articles, blueprints, charts, graphs, specification sheets, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed material pertaining primarily to Brown's career as a naval architect and marine engineer.

Dates 1915-1962; Majority of material found within 1923-1962
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Philippe Bunau-Varilla Papers

Identifier: MSS14316
Abstract

Panamanian diplomat and engineer. Correspondence, speeches, writings, legal records, newspaper clippings, and other papers concerning Bunau-Varilla’s activities in the United States, his efforts to gain support for completion of the Panama Canal, and his role in the Panamanian revolution and as minister plenipotentiary for the new government.

Dates 1877-1955; Majority of material found within ( 1900-1907)
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Vannevar Bush Papers

Identifier: MSS14498
Abstract

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.

Dates 1901-1974; Majority of material found within 1932-1955
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C. B. Comstock Papers

Identifier: MSS16527
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, notebooks, orders, reports, and drawings primarily concerning Comstock's Civil War service as chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac. Also includes material relating to the Mexican War and Comstock's tenure as president of the United States Mississippi River Commission, 1884.

Dates 1847-1908; Majority of material found within ( 1862-1890)
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Custis-Lee Family Papers

Identifier: MSS17558
Abstract

Correspondence, letterbooks, genealogical papers, notebooks, financial records, indentures, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting the activities of several generations of the Custis and Lee families of Virginia, who served as diplomats, statesmen, politicians, planters, and military officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dates 1700-circa 1928; Majority of material found within ( 1770-1870)
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C. S. Draper Papers

Identifier: MSS21360
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Engineer, inventor, and educator. Correspondence, speeches and writings, and consultant and organizational files documenting Draper's career as a professor of aeronautical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and technical consultant to the Curtiss-Wright Corporation and other airplane manufacturers and to the Sperry Gyroscope Company, Waltham Watch Company, and other instrument makers.

Dates 1773-1978; Majority of material found within ( 1939-1973)
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Melville Eastham Papers

Identifier: MSS52381
Abstract

Radio engineer and manufacturer. Correspondence, diaries, blueprints, sketches, plans, notebooks, company files, photographs, reports, clippings, and printed matter largely related to Eastham’s career as a radio engineer and as head of the General Radio Company, but also to his avocation of collecting early maps and atlases.

Dates 1908-1973; Majority of material found within ( 1930-1964)
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John Ericsson Papers

Identifier: MSS19877
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Engineer and inventor. Correspondence, writings, design specifications, articles, memoranda, technical notes, financial and legal papers, drawings, printed matter, and miscellany relating primarily to Ericsson's activities in marine engineering, especially his work on screw propellers and his design of the steamship Princeton and the ironclad Monitor. Includes correspondence of Ericsson's biographer, William C. Church.

Dates 1821-1890; Majority of material found within ( 1842-1886)
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Frederick Clarence Stilson Collection

Identifier: AFC/2001/001/2054
Abstract

Frederick C. Stilson served as an engineer during World War I. Collection includes a memoir and photographs.

Dates 1917-1968; Majority of material found within 1917-1919
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Oliver Freud and Henny Fuchs Freud Papers

Identifier: MSS81384
Abstract

Papers of Oliver Freud, photographer, engineer, and son of Sigmund Freud, and Henny Fuchs Freud, artist and wife of Oliver Freud. Correspondence, subject files, writings, photographs, and related material pertaining primarily to the emigration of family members from Austria and Europe during the Jewish holocaust. Also features a transcript of Oliver Freud’s recollection of his father, Sigmund Freud.

Dates 1821-1993; Majority of material found within ( 1907-1968)
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Henri Giffard Papers

Identifier: MSS61819
Abstract

Engineer and aeronaut. Correspondence, notes, design drawings, broadsides, newspapers, printed illustrations, articles about Giffard, and newspaper clippings relating chiefly to Giffard's balloon designs and ascents.

Dates 1852-1910
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George W. Goethals Papers

Identifier: MSS23002
Abstract

Governor of the Canal Zone, army officer, and engineer. Diaries, correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, clippings, family papers, and scrapbooks relating chiefly to the construction of the Panama Canal, Goethals' term as governor of the Canal Zone, his other public service positions, and the Goethals family.

Dates 1830-2014; Majority of material found within 1907-1927
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Thomas T. Goldsmith Papers

Identifier: MSS81980
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Physicist, electrical engineer, and television pioneer. Correspondence, annual reports, minutes, organization charts, patents, bids and proposals, contracts, research notes, schematics, catalogs, technical manuals, project files, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Goldsmith's career in television technology.

Dates 1914-1991; Majority of material found within 1956-1966
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Jack S. Kilby Papers

Identifier: MSS85317
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Engineer and inventor. Correspondence, memoranda, patents and related material, drawings, blueprints, transparencies, photographs, subject files, speeches, writings, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating primarily to Kilby's inventions and projects while an engineer and later a consultant for Texas Instruments. The papers also document Kilby's work as a consultant and adviser to various companies and organizations.

Dates 1878-2003; Majority of material found within 1970-1998
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Nicholas King Family Papers

Identifier: MSS76244
Abstract

Family of Nicholas King, English-born engineer and surveyor of the city of Washington, D.C. Journals, correspondence, notes, genealogies, visas, photographs, and drawings concerning King and members of his family.

Dates 1792-1987; Majority of material found within ( 1792-1861)
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F. W. Lander and J. M. Lander Papers

Identifier: MSS29322
Abstract

Engineer, explorer, and army officer (F. W Lander). Actress (J. M. Lander). Correspondence, writings, military dispatches and telegrams, notes, maps, reports, scrapbooks, printed material, and other papers relating to F. W. Lander’s explorations in the West, advocacy of a western railroad system, political activities in California, and service during the Civil War. Also correspondence, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting the acting career of J. M. Lander.

Dates 1836-1894; Majority of material found within ( 1849-1862)
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe Papers

Identifier: MSS48330
Abstract

Architect and engineer. Principally letters from Latrobe to John Lenthall, clerk of the works of the U.S. Capitol, concerning the construction of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

Dates 1803-1817
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James D. Lee Papers

Identifier: MSS86518
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Correspondence and other papers relating primarily to Lee's military service during the American Civil War.

Dates 1852-1890; Majority of material found within 1861-1866