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Wiener, Tom
Erol's Video Club.
- Dates:
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1984-1991
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0687
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Advertising and promotional materials for Erol's Video Club. Includes a calendar with advertising and coupons, two binders of member newsletters, newspapers, original design drawings for advertising, and posters.
Mike Augspurger Innovative Lives Presentation and Oral History
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Augspurger, Mike
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Cater, Anita
- Dates:
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1998
2001
2000
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0689
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Mike Augspurger was born in 1956 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Working with steel land titanium, he invented an all terrain rear wheel drive handcycle. Collection contains approximately eight hours of video footage documenting Augspurger discussing his life and work and a promotional video titled One-Off Handcycle.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Information, Technology and Society
- Dates:
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1942-1978
- Size:
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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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National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1968-1981
- Size:
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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.
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ca. 1890-1920.
- Size:
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0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0686
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 200 lantern slides, of various scenes in America and Canada, many of them published by railroad lines, presumably to arouse tourist interest in travel by rail. New York State and California are especially emphasized. Some images depict the railroads, railroad stations and railroad equipment. One group of images is from the Nabisco factory.
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Bickley, Everett H., 1888-1972
- Dates:
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1919-1980
bulk 1919-1965
- Size:
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5 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0683
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Everett H. Bickley Collection, 1919-1980, documents the inventions of Everett Huckel Bickley, most known for his electric sorting machine used to automate the process of sorting beans by use of a photoelectric cell. The collection consists of patents, drawings, photographs, correspondence, and artifacts designed by Bickley. The collection spans a considerable portion of the twentieth century and is of value to those researchers interested in product development, the patent application process, product marketing and promotion, World War II innovation, and the daily operation of a small, privately-owned industry.
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Engman, David
Simmons, David
Society for Industrial Archeology
Starbuck, David, Dr.
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1965-2017
- Size:
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40 Cubic feet (100 boxes, 7 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0688
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of the records of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, including officers' files; grant files, journals, newsletters, editorial files, films, photographs, and posters.
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Vorchheimer, Bert
Wertheimer, Frederick P.
Vorchheimer, Carol
- Dates:
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ca. 1928.
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0662
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two scrapbooks dating from 1927-1928 documenting Frederick Philip Wertheimer's advertising and marketing work for the Doughnut Machine Corporation.
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Came, Charles, 1806-1881
- Dates:
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1838-1979
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0661
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approximately .25 cubic feet of correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, and books documenting Charles Came. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from Charles Came to his second wife, Cynthia (Chadwick) Came which were written during his travels throughout upstate New York. The correspondence is not incl...
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Guha, Subhendu
- Dates:
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1998
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0668
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains original, master, and reference videos documentingSubhendu Guha, inventor of the solar shingle.
