C.L. Stong Papers
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Stong, C.L., 1902-1975 (electrical engineer)
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1952-1976
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12.6 Cubic feet (38 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0012
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These papers are the files of the editor of "The Amateur Scientist" section of the Scientific American from 1952 to 1976. They are arranged chronologically by date of article. The feature was started in 1952 as an expansion of "The Amateur Astronomer" section of the periodical. The papers include files of Stong's predecessor and files for arti...
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Espenschied, Lloyd, 1889-? ((electrical engineer) )
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1907-1969.
- Size:
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11.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0013
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous information on the history of telephonic and wireless communication; considerable personal correspondence about men and events in the field, especially disputed claims of inventions, development, and the like.
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Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901 (inventor)
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1871-1938.
- Size:
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3.6 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0014
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Legal documents, photographs, articles, copies of correspondence, three folders of original Gray correspondence on the Gray-Bell controversy; most of the collection consists of copies of material, or printed matter, collected by Lloyd W. Taylor of the museum staff.
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Leeds and Northrup Company
Gray Instrument Company
Queen, James W., & Company
Queen Gray Company
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1850-1952
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0015
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents James W. Queen & Company and its successors Leeds and Northrup Company, Queen-Gray Company, and Gray Instrument Company, manufacturers of instruments for laboratory and industrial use. The collection contains catalogs, circulars, photographs, and miscellaneous publications and documents.
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Laport, Edmund A.
- Dates:
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1923 - 1949
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0016
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Edmund A. Laport, a former director of broadcast engineering for the Radio Corporation of America.
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Braden Copper Company
Noerager, A. J.
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1914-1940.
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0017
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of Chilean power stations and equipment; and engineering drawings and blueprints of the Braden Copper Company, Rancaqua, Chile.
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Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1884-1965
- Size:
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46 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0018
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
While the collection is focused rather specifically on the development of television in America, including technical details, legal proceedings, marketing and advertisement, and manufacturing, it is also a rich source for the history of American advertising, work cultures, sales, and entertainment. There is also information about radio, mostly in p...
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Windsor & Ford (Brick Manufacturing Company).
Charles Ford (company).
Ford & Brother
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1859-1906
- Size:
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4.3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0019
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of invoices and receipts documenting the sale of bricks, purchase of supplies, and expenses for the real estate business; account books, ledgers, and a business diary showing employment records and the shipment of bricks by land and water. Records of Ford and Brother are primarily represented by Charles Ford, and later accou...
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Lifwynn Foundation
- Dates:
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1938 - 1954
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0020
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Included are file memoranda on meetings and correspondence, sent and received, 1938-1954, between the Lifwynn Foundation for Laboratory Research in Analytic and Social Psychiatry Incorporated, and in particular, Hans Syz, M.D., Secretary, and various doctors, psychologists, other professionals in the subject field, and various U.S. Military Departm...
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Still, George A., Dr.
Bean, Arthur Sanders
- Dates:
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1887-1941
- Size:
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2.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0021
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes photographs, brief biographies and some correspondence of 105 prominent osteopaths, all submitted in 1918 apparently as the result of a circular written request by Dr. George A. Still, a trustee of the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, and a great-nephew of the founder of that institution, Dr. A.T. Still. Oth...