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Foresight Institute. (Palo Alto, California)
Lubar, Steven D.
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1986-2004
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0.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0863
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains an almost complete set of the quarterly newsletter Foresight Background and its successor Foresight Update from 1987 to January, 2004. Also included are five issues of Foresight Briefing. The Foresight Institute of Palo Alto, California, studies transformative technologies.
Kryptonite Lock Company Records
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Zane, Michael Stuart, III
Kryptonite Lock Company
Zane, Elizabeth
- Dates:
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1972 - 2003
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5.6 Cubic feet (; 15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0840
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Massachusetts entrepreneur Michael Zane purchased a bicycle lock design and its trade name, 'Kryptonite lock," in 1972. Working with members of his family, Zane developed the Kryptonite Corporation. The records consist of audio-visual materials, correspondence, design drawings, photographs, testing records, patent information, sales reports, product information, advertisements, clippings, periodicals, legal documents, and research files.
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Fellows Gear Shaper Co., Springfield, Vermont
Regency Savings Bank
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1896-1999
bulk 1915-1970
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31 Cubic feet (62 boxes, 3 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0856
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records document primarily the financial aspects of the Fellows Gear Shaper Company and consist of meticulously maintained journals and ledger books. Fellows Gear Shaper Company was a leader and dominant figure in the manufacturing of precision gear production, gear cutting tools, and optical inspection machines in the first half of the 20th century. The company's contribution to the industry enabled the manufacture of gears for textile, automobiles, factory machinery, and other industries.
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Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
Pubols, Benjamin H., Jr.
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1950-2002
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0795
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An artificial collection of music memorabilia and printed ephemera. Examples of contents include concert programs and advertising. New material, much of it from the second half of the twentieth century, will be added regularly to this collection. This collection has been integrated into the Archives Center Business Americana Collection (NMAH.AC.040...
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Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1928-1989
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3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
23 Film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0801
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films, videos, tape recordings, and slides on fashion and clothing.
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General Electric Company
Gotti, Mary Beth
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
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circa 1890s-1969
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0789
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the technology of lighting and various business aspects of the General Electric Lighting Division throughout the 20th century and consists of correspondence, bulletins, price lists, business record books, stock certificates, sales and advertising materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and lantern slides.
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Niemeyer, G. Charles, Dr. (Grover Charles)
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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ca. 1960-1990.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0679
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
G. Charles Niemeyer was a Broadway actor and later a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. In the 1960s he began to research and write a new history of motion picture technology entitled From Shadow Play to Photoplay. It was never published.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
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1942-1978
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39 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0684
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-nine 16mm films on various subjects relating to telephone systems and communications, such as pole worker safety; party line etiquette; the transition from silent film to sound film; and the application of satellites, lasers and transistors to sound communication.
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Park-Brannock.
Park, Ernest N.
Brannock, Otis C.
Brannock, Charles F., 1903-1992
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1925 - 1998
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12 Cubic feet (34 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0672
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Brannock Device Company began with the 1925 invention of the Brannock Device, a tool to measure foot length and width at the same time, by inventor and businessman Charles F. Brannock. Early in his career Brannock worked as a shoe salesman at the Park-Brannock shoe store, and in 1962 he became the CEO of the company. This collection documents both the Park-Brannock store and the Brannock Device. Materials in The Brannock Device Company Records, 1925-1998, include of correspondence, design drawings, United States and foreign patents and trademarks, advertisements, product information, sales records, photographs, and a film strip documenting the invention, promotion, and sale of the Brannock Device as well as the concurrent development of Park-Brannock as a leading shoe store in Syracuse, N.Y.
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National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1968-1981
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15 Items (15 films, 16 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0685
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Fifteen 16mm composite optical track sound films of varying length, all in color except for two. The films were acquired by the National Zoo and presumably used as training films exhorting employees to practice safe work habits and avoid accidents. Each film provides full credits and the distributors and producers are listed.